Devil in a Blue Dress

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1. Devil in a Blue Dress Chapters 1-5 Eric Rabinowitz
2. “I was surprised to see a white man walk into Joppy’s bar.”
3. THEMES, MOTIFS, & SYMBOLS Segregation Color Race
4. “I was used to white people by 1945... I ate with them and slept with them, and I killed enough blue-eyed young men to know that they were just as afraid to die as I was.”
5. THEMES, MOTIFS, & SYMBOLS Segregation Color Race War Violence
6. Summary Easy meets Mr. Albright
7. THEMES, MOTIFS, & SYMBOLS Segregation Color Race War Violence Dialect
8. Summary Easy meets Mr. Albright Easy goes home
9. THEMES, MOTIFS, & SYMBOLS Segregation Color Race War Violence Dialect Easy’s Home
10. Summary Easy meets Mr. Albright Easy goes home Easy goes to Mr. Albright’s building
11. “The gun interested me. The butt and the barrel were black; the only part of DeWitt’s attire that wasn’t white.”
12. Why does Mosley make Albright’s gun the only nonwhite part of his attire?
13. Summary Easy meets Mr. Albright Easy goes home Easy goes to Mr. Albright’s building Easy goes to John’s Place and asks around about Daphne Monet
14. Dahlias by Claude Monet
16. “I loved going home... There were dahlias and wild roses in beds around the fence...” “I made the rounds ... asking people if they had seen a white girl, Delia or Dahlia or something. I didn’t use her real name...”
17. Why does Mosley emphasize Easy’s love for his home? What is he trying to convey about this time?
18. EZEKIEL “EASY” RAWLINS •From Houston, Texas •Serves in the army during World War II •Moves to Los Angeles after war •Works at Champion Aircraft until fired •Proud homeowner
19. End of WWII, 1945 Los Angeles, 1948 Cold War begins, 1947 Civil Rights Act of 1964 Executive Order 8802, 1941 Housing Act of 1949
21. How do you think Easy’s time in the army has affected his view of race in America?
22. DOUBLE VICTORY
24. SECOND GREAT MIGRATION
26. Josh White (1914-1969)
27. “Defense Factory Blues” (1941) I'll tell you one thing That boss man ain't my friend. If he was he'd give me Some democracy to defend. In the land of the free Called the home, home of the brave, All I want is liberty, That is what I crave. “Uncle Sam Says” (1941) Got my long government letter, It's my time to go, When I got to the Army, found the same old Jim Crow. Uncle Sam says, 'Two camps for black and white.' But when trouble starts, we'll all be in that same big fight. If you ask me I think democracy is fine, I mean democracy without a color line. Uncle Sam says, 'We'll live the American way.' Let's get together and kill Jim Crow today.
28. Compare the realities conveyed by White’s songs and Mosley’s vision of the 40s.
29. Bibliography: Kersten, Andrew E. "African Americans and World War II." Magazine of History 16, no. 3 (2002): 13-17. http://search.proquest.com/docview/213745111?accountid=11107. http://www.pbs.org/now/arts/mosley.html http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/claude-monet/dahlias http://www.inmotionaame.org/migrations/topic.cfm?migration=9&topic=9&tab=image http://www.inmotionaame.org/migrations/landing.cfm?migration=6&bhcp=1 http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_events_ww2.html http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe40s/life_18.html http://www.archives.gov/research/african-americans/ww2-pictures/#army http://www.history.army.mil/books/integration/IAF-07.htm http://www.nationalww2museum.org/assets/pdfs/african-americans-in-world.pdf http://www.culturalequity.org/alanlomax/ce_alanlomax_profile_josh_white.php