Vel Phillips Papers (Teaching, Box 4)

TRINITY COLLEGE Department of Government College Course 109 Professor Chuck Stone

BLACK POLITICS

Description: A study of the Black community's historical and contemporary involvement in the political process and its effort to acquire power in American society; Black political activity during Reconstruction: an assessment of the Black vote as a bloc vote on the national and local levels; case studies of selected Black politicians; the inter-action of the civil rights movement and the Black Revolution with Black political activity; comparative analyses of the political activity of other ethnic groups; future projections for Black political activity as an instrument for integration, a balance of power apparatus or a separatist movement.

Textbooks: Barbour, Floyd B. (editor), The Black Power Revolt (Porter Sargent, 1968) Demaris, Ovid, Captive City (Prentice-Hall, 1969) Stone, Chuck, Black Political Power in America (Bobbs-Merrill, 1968) (Supplementary, but not required: White, Theodore H., The Making of the President 1968, Atheneum, 1969) Students will also be required to read daily The New York Times, The Hartford Courant, and The Hartford Times.

ASSIGNED READING

Black Politics as a Component of a Systematized Black Studies Discipline 1a. Lecture

Historical White-out and Black Consciousness 1b. Barbor, pages 21-26; 34-41; 42; 53; 54-58; 94-102 Stone, Chapter 1 (pages 3-10)

What is Power? 2. Declaration of Independence Barbour, pages 149-161 (Selection from Negroes with Guns by Robert F. Williams)

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Stone, chapter 5

Brief selections to be assigned from Lord Action, Mikhail A. Bakunin, Edmund Burke, Frederick Douglass, Leo XIII, James Russell Lowell, Lincoln Steffens, and Mao Tse-Tung

"Black Power": From the Past to the Present

3. Babour, pages 61-71; 119-126; 136-145

Stone, chapter 2

Black Reconstruction

4. Stone, chapter 3

Supplementary: Black Reconstruction, W.E.B. duBois Race, Class and Party, Paul Lewinson, pages 1-81

Civil Rights Revolution: Fact or Fancy:

5. Lomax, Louis, The Negro Revolt

Katz, William L., Eyewitness - The Negro in American History, pages 474-514 (on reserve in Library)

The "Negro Vote" vs. the Black Vote

6. Stone, chapter 4

Supplementary: Balance of Power: the Negro Vote, Henry Lee Moon

Political Power and the Spoils System

7. Stone, chapters 5 and 6

Hartford's 1969 Mayoralty Campaign

8. No reading assignments; students will work for candidates of their choice as time permits.

White Power (Ethnic Politics)

9. Stone, chapter 7

Supplementary: Beyond the Melting Pot - the Negros, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians, and Irish of New York City, Glazer, Nathan and Moynihan, Daniel

The American Irish, William V. Shannon

The Story of Italians in America, Michael A. Musmanno

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The Cities: Racism and Corruption

10. Stone, chapter 8

Demaris, Ovid, Captive City

LOOK Magazine, September 23, 1969: Article on Mayor Alioto and the Mafia

The Black Politician: House Nigger or Field Nigger?

11. Stone, chapter 9

Supplementary: Clayton, Edward T., The Negro Politician

Black Mayors

12. Stone, Chapter 10 and 14 (chapter 14 will be published in paperback edition of Black Political Power in American in January, 1970)

Southern Comfort

13. Stone, chapter 11

Black Politics vs. Other Black Options

Options: Black Entrepreneurship: Republic of New Africa; Community Control of Police and Schools; Integration; Revolution)

14. Stone, chapters 12 and 13

a. The Two-Party System

b. A Third Black Political Party

Breitman, Malcolm X Speaks, chapter 3, "The Ballot or the Bullet" Anonymous pamphlet on Black Guerilla Warfare

[Printed Newsletter: Marlene E. Johnson 6th Aldermanic District Newsletter].

To Residents of the 6th Aldermanic District:

The primary reason for this communication is to acquaint you with programs, agencies and organizations providing services in the area of the new 6th District boundaries and the location of the polling places; but I also wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to provide you with a synopsis of some of the things currently happening in the district as well as apprise you of some of the proposals not yet decided on and/or implemented.

I also want to provide you with an opportunity to express your feelings about matters of concern to you by responding to the questionnaire or using the space set aside for your comments.

A number of programs, organizations and facilities currently operating in the 6th District have been enumerated. They are publicly supported and they are here to assist you, so do not hesitate to take advantage of the services they offer. I am proud to be a part of this comprehensive public and private effort to improve the quality of life in our community.

As your representative, I feel it is my responsibility to develop creative programs for our children and senior citizens, quality health care and to find ways to make our neighborhood cleaner and safer. I have also introduced legislation that will increase economic development and create more job opportunities for our citizens.

I urge you to contact me regarding your special concerns.

Sincerely

Marlene E. Johnson 6th District Alderman 278-3760

[Printed Handout: The New 6th Aldermanic District].