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I’d like you to read a speech by Stokely Carmichael. Most Americans are pretty familiar with MLK, but the history of the Black power movement tends to be overshadowed. And if you want to understand Baldwin as well as the current Black Lives Movement, this is a good place to start. Read this speech by Stokely Carmichael:  https://www.Blackpast.org/african-american-history/speeches-african-american-history/1966-stokely-carmichael-Black-power/

 

Then answer at least one of the following in 150 words:

1. How would you define Black power?

2. Non-violence as a strategy worked well in the South, but it could not bring about change in the urban West and North. This is one reason the Black power movement arose. Explain this connection.

3. What ideas in this speech do you think helped inspire the Black Lives Matter movement?

4. Some people argue that non-violence and Black power worked together to bring about change in the United States. How would that have been the case?

Write 150 word response Questions on Baldwin (answer at least one)

Why does Baldwin spend so much time on innocence in the first essay?

What was attractive about Christianity to Baldwin?

What was disappointing about Christianity to Baldwin?

Baldwin contends that white Americans don’t get jazz or the blues. What is his argument and would you agree?

What was the attraction of the Nation of Islam according to Baldwin?

What was the effect of World War II for Baldwin?

Why did Baldwin say that he and Elijah Muhammad would always be strangers and perhaps enemies?

Discuss the reasons Baldwin chose the title and what it says about Baldwin’s vision of the future.