300 word debate essay

QUESTION 300 WORD RESPOSE DEBATE -Group B

1947 protest march by NAACP youth members at Texas State University; from artstor.org.

 

Debate instructions:

You will support the SCLC (Martin Luther King, Jr.'s movement). To participate in the debate, you need to research both positions. The required work will help you. Who will you be in this debate? What character will you pick? It does not have to be an actual historical figure. You can be, for example, a white SNCC worker, or a Black Panther working in the breakfast program. Stay in character for your responses because each response is part of the debating.

The initial post will be at least 300 words.

To begin, read Kelley and Lewis,  Chapter 4 .

3.) Choose one of these lectures and use it in the debate:

"Reconsidering Little Rock: Terrence Roberts"

Professor Howard Brick,  "Black Power Movement in the 1960s"  (with an excellent analysis of Nina Simone's "Mississippi Goddam," which was written in a fury soon after the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing.)

Professor Martha Biondi,  "The Black Revolution on Campus."

Professor Yohuru Williams,  Lecture  on who the actual leaders of the Civil Rights Movement were.

4.) Watch and use  Martin Luther King, Jr. accepting the Nobel Peace Prize .

5.) Watch and use an  Interview with Malcolm X .