6-3 Historical Analysis

History Questions

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Question 1,

The historical lens that I want to use is historical significance.

Question 2,

How did Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jnr contribute to civil rights movement in United States?

Question 3,

The primary sources I would use on the research question are Eulogie for Malcom X by Ossie Davis and the documentary speeches of Martin Luther King Jnr.

Question 4.

The secondary sources that I would use are books and articles on the two activists.

Book: The Greenwood encyclopedia of African American civil rights: from emancipation to the twenty-first century

Article: “America's National Parks: The Transnational Creation of National Space in the Progressive Era" in Journal of American Studies (2012).

Question 5,

I will focus on addressing the background of Civil Rights Movement with emphasis on the contribution of Martin Luther King Jnr and Malcom X to activism.

Question 6,

The three consequences caused by the formulation of voting Rights Act are Increased representation of African Americans in various levels of governments include the state level and the congress, the shifting of the White Southerners towards the Republican Party and Voting registration recording numbers (Lamore, 2017). Each of the three saw a new group of voters from races and communities that were not allowed to vote before.

Question 7,

The passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and 1960.

Question 8,

The three consequences of the enactment of voting rights Act are the issue of literacy tests being deemed illegal, attorney General mandated to investigate any local or state election especially on areas where poll taxes were still being used, and the federal government mandated to watch over states that were using various obstacles to prevent African-Americans from voting (Bullock, 2018).

Question 9,

The Scholar was Kennedy. The evidence he used was that of gay marriage and abortion (Lamore, 2017).

Question 10,

Plied, the evidence used was the maturation of American politics (Lamore, 2017).

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