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BOOKS:
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam $10.85 full price, Amazon
ISBN 0393323048 Cheaper from alternate sellers on Amazon
Vietnam: A History by Stanley Karnow $14.28 full price PB, Amazon
ISBN 10-0140265473 Cheaper from alternate sellers, used on Amazon.com
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Nov 17 - History of the Black Panthers - ORF
Nov 20 - pp. 9-59 in the Karnow book. No outside reading form
Nov 21 - Tanka poem; A contrast of cultures - reading
Nov 24 - Vietnam map due; Questions on French Colonialism
Nov 25 - Introduction to Vietnam and the American Experience; 2 study sheets
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Nov 6 - Bussing in Boston ORF
Nov 11 - It's Nation Time in Newark - ORF
Nov 14 - The Worst Week ORF
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Tuesday, Oct 28-
ORF- Black Nationalism and Black Pride
Thursday Oct 30th - MLK Essay (100 points)
Monday, Nov 3 - The Rise and Fall of Black Power +orf
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For Monday, Oct 20 - Read [andcomplete a Primary Source Evaluation (see
Handouts)] for "Letter from a Birmingham Jail".
!!!!GO TO HANDOUTS AND PRINT OUT FULL VERSION OF THE LETTER. THE ONE I GAVE
YOU IN CLASS IS INCOMPLETE!!!!
Answer the following questions as well as the PSE. TYPE your answers.
1. Who is Dr. King addressing in his letter? Why?
2. According to King, what is the purpose of direct action?
3. Why did the organizers of the Birmingham campaign chooe the Easter season
for their protests?
4. What are the "Two types of laws" that King refers to in his letter? What
is the difference between the two?
5. What does King mean when he says "justice too long delayed is justice
denied?"
6. Whom does Dr. King consider the 'real heroes' of the South? Why?
Tuesday, Oct 21 - Identifications
Using the King Encyclopedia - Identify the following names/terms
[www.stanford.edu/group/king/about_king]
1. Martin Luther King, Jr.
2. nonviolence
3. nonviolent direct action
4. Mahatma Gandhi
5. Montgomery Bus Boycott
6. Southern Christian Leadership Conference
7. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
8. Ella Baker
9. Freedom Rides
10. sit-ins
11. March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
12. Malcolm X
13. "Black Power"
14. King's "Beyond Vietnam" speech
15. Poor People's Campaign
16. Mississippi Freedom Summer
17. Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
18. Bayard Rustin
19. Fred Shuttlesworth
20. Fannie Lou Hamer
Thursday, Oct 23
In class Video-Civil Rights Act 1964
For Friday, "Beyond Vietnam" speech MLK, Jr.
Questions: 1. What are the three maladies of American society identified by
King in his "Beyond Vietnam" speech?
2. What are the seven reasons King gives for his involvement in bringing an
end to the Vietnam War.
Essay assignment: Due October 30;[handout] Feel free to use your 'IDs' to
help write your essay. You may also use the texts of MLK's speeches for
support.
Friday, Oct 24
Discuss "Beyond Vietnam"; questions due
Video - "I Have a Dream"
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