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Framing Questions
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What forms did African American protest take? |
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How did protest strategies and goals evolve over time?
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In what ways was African American identity shaped in opposition to the larger American society?
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Asking» Text Links / Note / Discussion Questions
| - | "Negroes Petition General Assembly," newspaper article, The State (Columbia, SC), 23 January 1919 |
| - | Letters to Lansburgh's department store, Washington, DC, Autumn 1945 |
| - | "Members of Your Race Are Not Admitted," Ch. 11 of Pauli Murray, Song in a Weary Throat: An American Pilgrimage, memoir, 1987 (publ. posthumously) |
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Reasoning» Text Links / Note / Discussion Questions
| - | Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), "This Is the SCLC," brochure, ca. 1960, excerpts |
| - | Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Statement of Purpose, 1960 |
| - | Albany (Georgia) Nonviolent Movement, handbill, 1961 |
| - | Martin Luther King, Jr., "Where Do We Go From Here?" address to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, 16 August 1967 |
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Poetry» Text Links / Note / Discussion Questions
| - | Claude McKay, "If We Must Die," 1919 |
| - | Gwendolyn B. Bennett, "Hatred," 1927 |
| - | Sterling A. Brown, "Strong Men," 1931 |
| - | Countee Cullen, "Scottsboro, Too, Is Worth Its Song," 1934 |
| - | Langston Hughes, "Ballad of the Landlord," 1943 |
| - | Gwendolyn Brooks, "The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock," 1960 |
| - | Sonia Sanchez, "right on: white america," 1969 |
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Images: March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, 28 August 1963, photographs. Courtesy of the National Archives, Washington, DC (#542044, #542045, #542063).
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