Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Civil Rights and MLK

As we begin our sustained examination of the civil rights movement there are several over arching questions we want to use to frame our thinking:
- what are the factors that shape this particular movement (people, time and place, larger historical context, political and social realities, etc.)
- what are the ideas that shape this movment and the form that NV takes?
- how is NV shaped by this context, how does NV respond to this context, how does NV change this context?
- what are the successes and failures of the movement? how do we measure success and failure?
- how does this movement contribute to our understanding of social change and NV social change in particular?

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