Dear Students,
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE LINK BELOWIS ONLY OPEN TILL 31 OF OCTOBER!
WATCHTHE DOCUMENTARY ONMARTIN LUTHER KING(OR DOWNLOAD IT) BY THE END OF THIS WEEK, please!
The link to the documentary (homework) is:
Title of the documentary: Citizen King
username: history
password: video
(you don't need to type in anything else afterwords) just click ENTER
and start watching (or downloading) the documentary
It is 112 minutes long!
I hope you will enjoy watching it,
All the best,
Julia Fodor
Citizen King – a documentary on Dr. Martin Luther King last 5 years (1963-68)
Please answer the 40 questions below based on the documentary. Print out, bring along and hand in your answers.
Deadline: November 12th (put it in my pigeon hole if you don’t come to class on that day, please. American Studies Staff room: Farkas Elvira)
- Why is Martin Luther King’s (MLK) life likened to that of Jesus? (In what ways was Martin Luther King’s life that of Jesus?)
- What was the SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE (SCLC)?
- What was MLK’s position in the SCLC?
- In what way was the decision to “go into Birmingham” a turning point (1963)?
- Why was “Birmingham a terrible place”?
- Why was MLK jailed in Birmingham? (Birmingham City Jail April 16, 1963)
- Who are the new jail volunteers once the SCLC is out of adult jail volunteers? What are the numbers of these new volunteers?
- What was JFK’s response to MLK’s lobbying for the Civil Rights Movement?
- How does the following quote continue? “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation, where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by …………………………………………”
- How did Aug. 28, 1963, The March on Washington change JFK’s attitude to the Civil Rights Bill?
- How many lives did the bombing of the Birmingham, Alabama Church claim?
- What was MLK’s response?
- What kind of dangers was MLK facing?
- Who was always sitting on President Johnson's ear spilling poison in it about Martin?
- Why did Mr. Hoover “dislike” Dr. King?
- What reference point did those have who thought that Dr. King was a communist (sympathizer)?
- What was King’s very fitting answer to Paul Nevin and Dan Rather’s (CNN) allegations that he had been too slow to severe his ties with Communists? What is one of the most amazing developments of the 20th century in America?
- When and by which president was the Civil Rights Act signed into law?
- What prize did MLK win shortly afterwards?
- What was the prize recognition of in King’s words?
- What was President Johnson’s reaction to King’s push for enacting a Voting Rights Act?
- What was King’s goal with the Selma March?
- What happened at the top of the bridge where state troopers blocked the way and would not let the march continue?
- So why did King decide to turn back the march?
- What was signed on ………….?
- How was King received by those participating in the Los AngelesWatts riots?
- What decision does King come to in the context of the Watts riots?
- What effect does living in the Chicago ghettos have on King?
- How did King try to deal with the toughest gang kids in Chicago?
- Describe King’s take on America’s role as a policeman of the world. Why was that especially a sensitive issue in 1967?
- Explain (and finish) this quote from him: “The promises of the great society have been shot down on …”
- What was the reaction of the press?
- (in the words of the historian James Cone) What other important issues was Vietnam connected with in King’s view?
- How did that realization on King’s part spur him on for action?
- The question was “whether to make a whole movement out of the Riverside speech against the war or do the poor people's campaign.” Which one did King decide upon and why?
- What was their plan?
- How was this campaign going to cost much more and be different from previous ones?
- How did the Memphis march turn into a violent demonstration?
- When and where did King give his “I’ve been to the mountaintop” speech?
- When did the Poor People’s Campaign really fall apart?