Monday, January 16, 2023 - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
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.
Answer the following Q’s for a HW assignment in paragraph format:
Paragraph I
What makes a nation a “nation?”
Define nationalism.
What are the five elements of nationalism?
Are there extreme cases of loving one’s country? Provide an example?
What is patriotism & how is patriotism different from nationalism?
Paragraph II
Who was Simon BolĂvar, and how were his nationalist ideas both good and bad (provide one example for each)
Why and how are the Olympics and the World Cup good examples of nationalism?
Do you personally believe nationalism has a more positive or negative effect on people and the world? (This is hard…Think about how nationalism is good, explain…bad, explain)