Is America an empire? To help answer that unit question, we will analyze the following work of art:
The following source may help you in describing what life was like inside of Mississippi State Penitentiary (MSP), also known as Parchman Farm.
And/or watch an 18-minute excerpt from American Experience: Freedom Riders by clicking the image below:
This is an semi-ANONYMOUS survey, so feel free to be as honest as possible. This will make more sense once you have seen the assessment for John Dolan, the young Freedom Rider working with CORE.
Think about the "bump back" mentioned in Ellison's Invisible Man. What then were the proximate causes of the legislative/policy changes enacted in and by the United States during the the mid-1960s? As you watch the film, Eyes on the Prize: "Ain't Scared of Your Jails" (linked below), fill in the study guide with specific details from each technique used by activists:
- FILM: click here to watch (no need to download)
-
STUDY GUIDE:
- TRANSCRIPT:
Given the stakes, why not give it a try? Start with this NPR article. Click the image below for the original challenge put out by the New York Times:
And click here to read Maurice Berger's original article about the 70 "missing" photos from Gordon Parks' "Segregation Series".
And finally, here is an excerpt from my conversation with Google's AI bot.
