Article Analysis

QUESTION: Analyze the arguments made in favor and against segregation. What main points did the opponents of
segregation make to fight against this system? What approaches did they use to further their cause? How did their
opponents who supported segregation counter their protests? Which arguments/approaches were the most effective
and why?
REQUIRED READINGS:
1) Textbook (OpenStax) – Ch. 22.3 (p. 619-21); Ch. 24.3 (p. 712-13); Ch. 25.3 (p. 744-5); Ch. 25.4 (p. 751-2); Ch. 26.3
(p. 780-2); Ch. 27.2 (p. 806-8); Ch. 28.5 (p. 845-51); Ch. 29.1 (p. 864-5); Ch. 29.2 (p. 868-70); Ch. 29.3 (p. 872-9)
2) Lecture notes on the Civil Rights Movement
3) Primary source documents in workbook (you must use specific examples from at least three of the five):
x Document 35 (p. 99-100) – A. Philip Randolph, The Call to Negro America to March on Washington
(1941)
x Document 36 (p. 102-3) – James G. Thompson, Letter to the Pittsburgh Courier (1942)
x Document 39 (p. 109-12) – Brown v. Board of Education and the “Southern Manifesto” (1954)
x Document 41 (p. 113) – Jackie Robinson, Letter to President Eisenhower (1958)
x Document 46 (p. 128-9) – George Wallace, Inaugural Address as Governor of Alabama (1963)