Unit 8: Civil Rights and Human Rights (1940s-today)

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#801 Gandhi, King, and Nonviolent Resistance

Prepare:

• Read Priyanka Kumar, "What King Learned from Gandhi," The Los Angeles Review of Books (16 January 2017).

Materials needed for class:

• Please bring either a printed copy of the article or a charged laptop.
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#802 Malcolm X and Black Power

Prepare:

• Read: Malcolm X, "The ballot or the bullet,” 3 April 1964 (excerpts, PDF)
• Read Foner "The Changing Black Movement," 782-85.

Materials needed for class:

• Charged laptop.
• Printed copy of "The ballot or the bullet" speech (optional).

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#803 Women's Movement

Read:

• Read Foner, 795-97, 799-801 (The New Movements and the Rights Revolution, The Feminine Mystique, Women’s Liberation, Personal Freedom, Gay Liberation, The Rights Revolution, and The Right to Privacy)
  

Materials needed for class:

• Bring a charged laptop to class.