The Civil Rights Era

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This paper explains that, simultaneously, during the Civil Rights era, profound activities brought about the demise of legislature that bound African Americans to second class citizenship and created a new consciousness among African Americans. The author points out that some African Americans wanted to be self-sufficient with a common national separate identity and an independent ideology rather than try to acculturate with mainstream America. The paper relates that other African Americans believed in the political ideas of integrationism, which did not entail the development of an independent ideology among African Americans but rather was more involved in the acceptance of African Americans into the cultural, political and economic activities of the overall social structure in America.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
African American Nationalism and Integrationism: Differences during the Civil Rights Era
Conclusion

From the Paper:

"Frantz Fanon wrote that, the process of decolonization, and the mental scar of black subjugation, required black nationalism, including blacks in America, to be a process marred with violence, as a sign of struggle for national liberation. Integrationsim does not hold this view, since the necessary aim, it not "purging" activity, but more so , the construct of a political ideology, that allows African Americans the same rights as other races - 'whites'."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Fanon, Franz. The Wretched of the Earth. Grove Press, 1965.
• Henderson, Errol. "Misunderstanding black nationalism: failures, fixations, facades and fabrications". American Political Science Association. Chicago: Annual Meeting of American Political Science Association, September 2004.
• King, Martin Luther Jr. "The Negro Revolution", in Why We Can't Wait, New York: The New American Library of World Literature, Inc. 1964

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