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Discussion Essay # 3 – The 1960s and the Civil Rights Era

Read the all of your readings (text chapters and documents) up through chapter 28 and see all of your short documentaries in Blackboard up through our topic “The Vietnam Era, 1961-1975.”

The Essay Prompt: A two part essay: part I film analysis*****; part II a primary source******.

See and take notes on this important film

PBS film “African Americas, Many Rivers to Cross: Rise! 1940-1968” (there is a short study guide in BB) (Link to film in Blackboard, under this topic).

Part I: Write a well-developed and well-supported essay in which you analyze the importance of one big theme that emerges from our film “African Americas, Many Rivers to Cross: Rise! 1940-1968” (there is a study guide right next to the link to the film- it lists, among others, the importance of wartime migrations; African Americans in World War II; the gradual rise of the civil rights movement from the 1940s; the importance of radio and music; the role of students in desegregating schools; non-violent civil disobedience…).

Length of this part: about two substantive paragraphs with specific examples and historical context from our readings and films on civil rights and the 1960s (especially Schaller’s ch’s 27 and 28).

Part II: Take one primary source on this topic (our chapter 28 documents go best with our chapter 27 readings; they’re clipped below) and analyze the multiple ways that document is important to our understanding of American History in the 1960s.

Schaller, Reading American Horizons, Chapter 28:

*28.1 Students for a Democratic Society, The Port Huron Statement (1962)

*28.2 Visual Document: Tomi Ungerer, Black Power White Power (1967)

*28.3 Visual Document: Black Power Protest at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics (1968)

*Malcolm X’s Audubon Address (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. (“it shall be the ballot or the bullet”), Washington Heights,

New York, March 29, 1964

Length of this part: about two substantive paragraphs with specific examples and historical context from our readings and films on civil rights and the 1960s (especially Schaller’s ch’s 27 and 28).

Total: length of the entire essay should be at least four well developed and well argued body paragraphs (with examples from our readings and films)

For each part: be sure provide historical context to your points from our readings in Schaller’s American Horizons and your short documentaries on the Civil Rights movement- this is an essential component of this essay. Show us that you’re making connections.

Citing evidence: Because we are all reading the same material, when bringing in a quote from Schaller, you can simply cite it as: (Schaller, p. 1073), for example. When bringing in a quote from one of our required films, you can simply cite it as: (“Battle for Racial Equality”), for example (this is one of your films for this topic).

Write your essay in a word processing program so you can always have a copy. After you’ve proofread it and spell-checked it (this is formal writing- please no "text-ese" and capitalize when appropriate), select all of your text, “copy” it, then click “create thread” in the appropriate Discussion Board forum, paste your essay in there, and click “submit”. (Use a 12 pt font). Discussion Forums do not accept attachments so that everyone can read each other’s essays seamlessly without downloading files.