Zinn is conveying and encourages students to reach beyond the familiar list of heroes and value those who truly fought for social justice that were not recognized. Zinn’s interpretations were exquisite and really made the students think. He really engaged the class with this project and unlike most teachers he let the students play a part in the lesson. He let them voice their opinions and have a say in what they liked and did not like. This attitude towards students really shows how much you want
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On Sunday May 14‚ 1961 a mob of angry white people blocked a Greyhound bus carrying black and white passengers through Alabama.The attackers threw rocks and bricks‚ slashed tires‚ and lobbed a firebomb through a smashed window. As smoke and and flames begin to fill the bus the attackers blocked the doorway screaming “Burn them alive!” Warning shots from arriving state troopers forced the mob back and allowed the riders to escape the fire. Though they were able to escape the flames‚ many were pummeled
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Which is mightier‚ the pen or the sword? Throughout history‚ there have been two main tactics of promoting a cause: the pen and the sword. The pen refers to writing and giving speeches whereas the sword refers to violent direct actions. One tactic is more civil and metropolitan the other is more forceful and dynamic. African-American rights and Women Rights have been stood for in the national spotlight. Both tactics have been used for each movement‚ but which tactic was more effective for promoting
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The Freedom Riders During the spring of 1961‚ student activists from the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) launched the Freedom Rides to challenge segregation on interstate buses and bus terminals‚ and to challenge the government into dealing with civil rights. Traveling on buses from Washington‚ D.C.‚ to Jackson‚ Mississippi‚ the riders met violent opposition in the Deep South‚ garnering extensive media attention and eventually forcing federal intervention from John F. Kennedy’s administration
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the modern civil rights movement was the 1954 Supreme Court decision Brown vs. Board of Education‚ which overturned desegregated schools across the nation. Schools‚ especially in the South‚ were slow to comply‚ and often attempts to register black students broke out in violence. Meanwhile‚ in 1955 in Montgomery‚ Alabama‚ a seamstress named Rosa Parks refused to give her bus seat to a white man in December 1955 and sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott‚ a successful protest that took over a year and ended
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for white people. These black students sat at a white lunch counter and refused to leave. This sit-in was a direct challenge to southern tradition. Trained in non-violence‚ the students refused to fight back and later were arrested by Nashville police. The students were drawn to activist Jim Lossen and his workshops of non-violence. The non-violent workshops were training on how to practice non-violent protests. John Lewis‚ Angela Butler‚ and Diane Nash led students to the first lunch counter sit-in
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To what extent did the aims and methods of Martin Luther King differ from those of Black Power Activists? There is no question that the aims and methods of Martin Luther King differed from those of Black Power activists. King was peaceful and wanted integration with whites while Black Power activists confronted violence and believed in black supremacism and separatism. But they were also similar in some ways‚ such as speaking out on the Vietnam War. The aims of MLK differed significantly from those
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Qui’Shawn Parker October 29‚ 2012 S3 Words: 636 Fannie Lou Hamer Fannie Lou Hamer‚ known as Fannie Lou Townsend Hamer was born on the date of October 6‚ 1917 Montgomery County on a plantation‚ Mississippi and during the time she has lived she has accomplished many beneficial things for the black African American ethnic group in America. Due to heart failure Hamer died at Mound Bayou Hospital‚ Mississippi March 14‚ 1997‚ at the age of 59. Fannie Lou Hamer was later buried in her
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killed in front of his home. * In 1964‚ SNCC workers organized the Mississippi Summer Project to register African Americans to vote in the state‚ wanting to focus national attention on the state’s racism. * SNCC recruited Northern college students‚ teachers‚ artists‚ and clergy to work on the project. They believed the participation of these people would make the country concerned about discrimination and violence in Mississippi. * The project did receive national attention‚ especially
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How far do you agree that the black power movement hindered Black civil rights in the 1960’s? The overall effect of black power on the overall black civil rights movement in the 1960’s was a hindrance‚ it hindered the movement via violence‚ divisions and the overall view on the black population by the rest of America and the rest of the world. Militancy was one of the main difference from the black power and black civil rights movement‚ this led to white opposition due to the support they had given
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