So I would like you guys to answer these 3 questions below using at least 2 sources and at least 1 quote from either text material and/or film. The trick is to make an argument that includes a thesis and to use your evidence wisely. Be creative and bold, but don’t be afraid to say you’re uncertain, as long as you say why. Can you be sure to address every issue raised by each statement! And since I choose 5 pages make each answer about 1 ¾ a page long to fill out to five.
1.Drawing on these readings (American Paradox, Takin’ It to the Streets, Lyndon Johnson and American Liberalism) and these films ( “The Murder of Emmett Till,” “1964,” “Neshoba,” “Perspectives on Resistance,” “COINTELPRO,” and “Berkeley in the Sixties”) write a short essay exploring how effectively black and white Americans grappled with racial inequality between 1954 and 1965 and the legacies of their struggles for the generations that followed.
2.1964 has been called “the year when change was inescapable, the moment that fundamentally altered the kind of nation America would become,” “the kind of watershed that you very rarely see in history.” (“1964: The Year that Changed America.”) But some of the events portrayed in the film, “1964,” actually had their roots in 1963. The Feminine Mystique, for example, was published in 1963, though it reached the bestseller list in 1964. And certainly, some important events happened in 1963! Consider what you know of 1963, including the events memorialized in “50 Years Ago: The World in 1963,”
http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2013/02/50-years-ago-the-world-in-1963/100460/
Then write an short essay evaluating the relative importance of 1963 and 1964 to the history of the United States. Was either or both “the year that changed America?”
3. Assume you die and go to heaven. (This essay requires a leap of faith!) Upon arrival, you are summoned before the history judges and told that whether you can stay depends on how well you defend the right to be there of Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Robert McNamara, Lyndon Johnson and Barry Goldwater. Make the case. (Remember that any good defense anticipates the points that will be raised in opposition and deals with them.) While you must make the case for the right of all of them to be there, you must also rank them in terms of whom most deserves to be there most to whom least deserves to be there. This question is wide open, but your answer should address, where relevant, the individuals’ temperaments, leadership abilities, and policies towards domestic and foreign affairs, and the materials covered in the reading, films (especially “Cold War Roadshow,” “The Fog of War,” “1964,” and “Mr. Conservative”) and lecture.
Use these to pull sources and quotes from
FILMS
1. “The Murder of Emmett Till” (55 Minutes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-X4is9jMYk – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-X4is9jMYk
2. Don’t have a source for the film “Neshoba” (86 minutes)
3. Teacher Resource: Perspectives on Resistance: Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. (10 minutes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HGr-UJSf9k
4. COINTELPRO—The FBI’s War on Black America (13 minutes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgCyxQeRMrs
5. “Berkeley in the Sixties” (120 minutes)
http://www.amazon.com/Berkeley-Sixties-Mark-Kirchelle/dp/B002GXEWR6
or http://www.ovguide.com/berkeley-in-the-sixties-9202a8c04000641f8000000007b605d7
or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nX8FHkiYpII
6. 1964
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3PI95z_iMo
TEXT
1. Steven Gillon, The American Paradox: A History of the United States Since 1945 (2007) I will send you the pdf of this literature.
Main points of text to look at:
“American Paradox” – “Introduction: The American Paradox” and Chapters 3-4
“American Paradox”- Chapter 5-7,
“American Paradox” Chapter 8 , “Takin-‘ It to the Streets,”- 50-86, 99-107, 152-167, 202- 04
2. Alexander Bloom and Wini Breines, “Takin’ it to the Streets’: A Sixties Reader (2010)
Main points of text to look at:
“Takin’ It to the Streets”, 1-47
“Takin-‘ It to the Streets,”- 50-86, 99-107, 152-167, 202-04
“Takin’ It to the Streets,” 107-52
3. Bruce Schulman, Lyndon B. Johnson and American Liberalism (2007)
Main points of text to look at:
“Lyndon Johnson and American Liberalism”- Part I
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