Monday - January 17, 2k22 -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Day -- No School
In the eleven-year period between 1957 and 1968, King traveled over six million miles and spoke over twenty-five hundred times, appearing wherever there was injustice, protest, and action; and meanwhile he wrote five books as well as numerous articles.
In these years, he led a massive protest in Birmingham, Alabama, that caught the attention of the entire world, providing what he called a coalition of conscience and inspiring his “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”, a manifesto of the Negro revolution; he planned the drives in Alabama for the registration of Negroes as voters; he directed the peaceful march on Washington, D.C., of 250,000 people to whom he delivered his address, “l Have a Dream”, he conferred with President John F. Kennedy and campaigned for President Lyndon B. Johnson.
King was arrested upwards of twenty times and assaulted at least four times; he was awarded five honorary degrees; was named Man of the Year by Time magazine in 1963; and became not only the symbolic leader of American blacks but also a world figure.
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Day 1
In Class: Revolutions Essay due! -- Welcome to nationalism!
- What makes a "nation?"
- What is nationalism?
- What is imperialism?
HW: None!
Day 2
In Class: Nationalism vs. Patriotism
- What is patriotism?
- What are the differences between nationalism and patriotism?
- How are people patriotic?
- Simon Bolivar! The Liberator!
HW:
Day 3
In Class: Communism vs. Socialism!
HW: None! Shabbat Shalom!