Learning Objective 1. To evaluate how important Martin Luther King Jr. was in the Civil Rights Movement. 2. To develop source analysis skills. Learning Outcomes
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Source A - An article titled, 'Colleges and Universities That Don't Observe the Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday'. Published by The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, No. 19 (Spring, 1998), pp. 26-27
Source C - The trailer for the Movie 'Selma', released in 2015.
Source E - An interview with John Lewis Produced by the BBC's Lynsea Garrison and Bill McKenna
US Congressman John Lewis is the last surviving speaker from the March on Washington 50 years ago. The student activist turned civil rights leader spoke on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial just before Dr Martin Luther King Jr delivered his famous I Have a Dream speech on 28 August 1963. He spoke to the BBC about how he was inspired by Dr King's speeches on the radio and later became his friend. |
Source B - Excerpt from an essay by Charles Payne in Debating the Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1968 by S.Lawson and C.Payne, published by Rowman & Littlefield, Maryland, USA, 1998, p. 113. Payne is a professor at the University of Chicago, USA, who specialises in African-American history.
What we see in Montgomery was that King was the inheritor of momentum that other people established, a pattern that was to be repeated often over the next several years. Other people constructed the stage, but once he stepped into the role of movement spokesperson, his charisma, broad appeal, and personal growth allowed him to project the message of the movement in ways that virtually no one could have predicted in 1956. Source D - A video from YouTube, published by 'Democracy Now' showing real footage of the March on Selma.
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