Format: 1 to 2 page, double-spaced, 12 pt. Times New Roman font.
Use 1 primary source, 1 secondary source, and the “Awakenings” episode of
Eyes on The Prize
Watch: https://morgan.kanopy.com/video/awakenings
Primary Sources:
Martin Luther King, Jr. “Letter from Birmingham Jail” https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/04/martin-luther-kings-letter-from-birmingham-jail/274668/
Malcolm X, “Appeal to African Heads of State” (Blackboard)
Secondary Sources:
Dagbovie, “God Has Spared Me to Tell My Story” (Blackboard)
Peniel Joseph “Revolution in Babylon: Stokely Carmichael and America in the 1960s” (Blackboard)
Discus does the documentary focus on? What is the argument in the King or Malcolm X sources? Who are they appealing to? In the secondary source material, Dagbovie and Joseph discuss two figures involved in the self-defense wing of the Black Freedom Struggle. How does self-defense emerge? How does it figure in Williams or Carmichael’s lives?