Civil Rights Movement
"If the Civil Rights Movement didn't occur, I believe we would still have segregation in the United States today" - Rep. G.K. Butterfield
"The really terrible thing, old buddy, is that you must accept them. And I mean that very seriously. You must accept them and accept them with love. For these innocent people have no other hope. They are, in effect, still trapped in a history which they do not understand; and until they understand it, they cannot be released from it. They have had to believe for many years, and for innumerable reasons, that black men are inferior to white men. Many of them, indeed, know better, but, as you will discover, people find it very difficult to act on what they know. To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger. In this case, the danger, in the minds of most white Americans, is the loss of their identity… But these men are your brothers – your lost, younger brothers. And if the word integration means anything, this is what it means: that we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it." - James Baldwin
Prayer of Saint Francis
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace:
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy.
O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console,
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
Amen.
Civil Rights Trail
Assignment: You will create multiple pages on your web site devoted to the Civil Rights Movement. The first page contains a series of blogs in response to this database, which outlines the major events of the Civil Rights Movement. The first blog is a response to the following resources, one a collection of various Jim Crow laws and the other a collection of voting restrictions. Locate a detail or a passage from one or both of these resources, and write 5-7 sentences about why it was so striking to you. Be prepared to share your response with the class. In each blog post, you must practice with fluidly quoting from the text you are studying.
Letter from Birmingham Jail Project
This project consists of two phases.
Phase 1:
Summarize the rhetorical moves that King makes in the letter. How exactly does he make his case? 1-2 pages.
Write a blog post about one instance in which King uses ethos, pathos, and logos. So that means three blog posts of 5-7 sentences. Be sure to practice with quoting from the text.
Write a blog post about one instance in which King is using language in an interesting way. Copy and paste the sentence/passage, then write 5-7 sentences about why it is interesting.
Phase 2:
You will compose a speech about a social justice issue that is important to you. You must imitate Dr. King's style and approach, using ethos, pathos, and logos in your speech. Be prepared to deliver it to the class (but you don't have to imitate Dr. King's way of speaking!).
Rhetoric
Women of the Civil Rights Movement
The Project: Due Monday, 25 February, 2019
You have chosen a name out of a hat. You will now create a comprehensive project about your person. The steps are as follows:
- Each of you will create a web page about your person, to be posted on your web page for this class. The web page must contain the following items:
- A text box that welcomes the reader and summarizes the contents of the page.
- At least one image of your person.
- At least three links to credible resources about your person (see our Civil Rights Movement page for guidance). For each link, write a brief summary of what it contains and why it is important.
- At least one blog post that details why you think this person is so important and valuable.
- If your person wrote anything, or gave an interview or speech, include that text.
- If there is footage of your person on YouTube or another platform, include that video.
- If there are audio recordings of your person, especially if that person is a musician, include that file on your page.
- Finally, you must visit the web page of the person in the other class who has drawn the same name as you. Then, on your web page, write a one-page blog post about that page. What are the similarities and differences between the pages? What is your overall evaluation of your "partner's" work? What have you learned from this page?
