CRE 287- From Civil Rights To Racial Justice: Understanding African American Social Justice Movements
From Civil Rights To Racial Justice: Understanding African American Social Justice Movements Comments from Dr. Alvin Tillery - Associate professor of Political Science at Northwestern University. 1. Summer of 2020, the biggest protests for racial justice and civil rights in a generation a. Sparked by deaths of AA in police custody shined light on systemic racism 2. What did the recent verdict of Derek Chauvin (guilty) have to say about racial equity in U.S. 3. How impacted current racial justice movements -such as BLM a. How fits within broader history of U.S. civil rights movement b. How today’s efforts differ from past American racial justice initiatives. 4. Addressing racial justice and equity top priority for Biden-Harris administration. 5. Tillery is an AA who came of age in the shadow of the Civil Rights movement a. Really experienced integration in the U.S. b. In terms of n