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Victory on the Home Front Regional Culture History Lesson 7 In "The Winners" Walter Williams, Jr. makes use of pastel, a soft subdued shade, to capture the liveliness and excitement of young boys. Given concerns for safety, one of the more difficult decisions made by Martin Luther King, Jr. and others was the encouragement and allowance of children to participate in the Civil Rights struggle.
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Consideration:
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Statement from a text by Dr. King whereby he acknowledges the difficult yet important decision of allowing children to enter the Civil Rights struggle. |
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Images which depict the liveliness and excitement of children participating in marches, sit-ins, and other demonstrations juxtaposed against law enforcement agents subduing them with water hoses and dogs. |
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Consideration:
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Search the Internet to find answers to these questions:
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b) Who is Harry Belafonte and what type assistance did he lend to the Civil Rights Movement?
c) Did Dr. King receive support from the church?
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Consideration:
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After being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, Dr. King changed strategies applicable to civil rights. He shifted focus from civil rights as a domestic problem to an international problem, and began to publicly criticize the Viet Nam war. In spring 1967, 500,000 marchers of all ages converged on Central Park chanting, "Hey LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?" Dozens of young men ceremoniously burned their draft cards, and the so-called resistance phase of the anti-war movement was well under way.
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Exercise: Search the Internet to find answers to these questions: |
a) Locate a newspaper account which assess Dr. King's anti-war stand.
b) Determine if that same newspaper assesses the spring 1967 rally in Central Park.
c) Does coverage of both forms of protest seem fairly equal appears biased in favor of encouraging tolerance for one form of protest over the other?
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