Note: Sierra, I have yet to meet with you to go over the Thantopsis poem
Due today: study guide responses for Riis' How the Other Half Lives
Due Friday: Thanatopsis essay
In class: review of King's Letter from a Birmingham Jail: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHnKeajhoIw
Two approaches: King vs Malcolm X debate: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4PqLKWuwyU
What are King's reasons for being in Birmingham?
King went to Birmingham after a call from the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (an affiliate of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, for which Martin Luther King is the leader of) to assist in engaging in a nonviolent direct action. The group agreed to go to Birmingham to demonstrate. Birmingham had many injustices at the time of the demonstration; so much like every other protest at the time, it had a goal of civil rights for African-Americans, and integration of whites and black people.
What are the four basic steps of nonviolent direct action?
1. Determining the injustices:
2. Negotiation:
3. Self Purification:
4. Direct Action
1. Determining the injustices: events prior to the nonviolent protest demonstrated pure hate and racism. There were bombings of homes and churches, unjust treatment in the courts and a lot of segregation. Violence and hatred went too far, so they decided to take a stand.
2. Negotiation: “Fathers of the city” refused to negotiate with the people about segregation and hatred, so they decided to protest. This step may reoccur at the end of all four steps.
3, Self Purification: This step was preparation for action. Protestors began workshops on nonviolence where they learned how to not retaliate after a blow, and where they prepared for jail, and much more.
4 Direct Action: This was the step that the protestors had been preparing for. This is when they began demonstrations in hopes of damaging the economy, and making a point. The overall goal was to return to the negotiation process to make necessary changes
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