Week 6 - Love and Hate

Question 1

Identify how and why people protested the status quo in the 1960s.

Answer 1

-racial inequality
-lack of recognition of gay rights
-gender inequality (women’s movement)
- students movement
- anti war movement - War in Vietnam

Lyndon Johnson - Great Society, War on Poverty

Question 2

Identify the objectives, tactics, achievements, and limitations of the Civil Rights Movement.

Question 3

Identify the groups that were in involved in the Civil Rights Movement.

Answer 3

the black power and anti-racism movement;
critical race theorists;
anti-imperial thinkers and activists;
Indigenous rights movements;
the gay liberation movement;
pro-Latino protests and activism;
feminists of various politicaHl and social sympathies;
anti-war activists and sympathizers.

Question 4

Identify the legislative changes that took place in America as a result of the Civil Rights Movement, including the Civil Rights Act (1964) and the Voting Rights Act (1965)

Answer 4

Civil Rights Act (1964)
- prohibited discrimination in privately owned public places like restaurants, hotels, theatres, and other public places like schools, hospitals, employment
and discrimination of gender

Voting Rights Act (1965)
- federal government given power to oversee voting in places where discrimination was practiced

Question 5

Identify the timeline, life, and accomplishments of MLK Jr.

Answer 5

He earned a Bachelor of Arts from Morehouse College, a distinguished black college, in the 1940s. He went on to study theology in Pennsylvania, graduating in 1951, and then earned a doctorate from Boston University, completing this in 1955.

engaged in targeted, peaceful political actions to draw attention to the racial violence faced by African-Americans across the country. King’s strategies drew on the salvation of religion, namely Christian values and teachings

deployed the rhetoric of hope, love, and acceptance to tailor their a message of cooperation to enact social and legal change, even despite the widely oppressive and violent tactics of the British and United States governments against Indians and African-Americans, respectively

served on the executive committee for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

involved and inspired several notable, and successful bus boycotts, which contributed to the Supreme Court’s 1956 decision that it was unconstitutional for buses to have segregation policies

publishing five books

“Letter from a Birmingham Jail”, was an action call for the Civil Rights Movement and called African-Americans to engage in protest with their voting ballots. He was also awarded a Nobel Peace Prize in 1964

murdered in 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee by one of the vicious racists that he spoke so eloquently against.

Question 6

Identify MLK’s use of metaphor, analogy, and parallelism in his ‘I Have a Dream’ speech.

Answer 6

delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., was delivered in 1963. It an excellent example of the use of metaphor, analogy, and parallelism in public oration. It was a remarkable speech not just because it was delivered with King’s legendary charisma, but because it harkened to Lincoln’s most enduring act, the Emancipation Proclamation, which formally freed African-Americans from slavery at the end of the American Civil War (Frady, 2005).
‘love they oppressor’ mentality to persuade people to his cause