Sources for America’s History: Printed Page 690
Compare the civil rights philosophy of someone like Martin Luther King Jr. with the approach advocated by Fannie Lou Hamer and Malcolm X to identify similarities and differences in their approach to reform. To what extent do their differences reveal the fractures in the movement during the 1960s?
What continuities across time can you identify by analyzing and comparing “I Am Joaquín” with the LULAC News editorial (Document 24-4)? How are the approaches to Mexican American civil rights similar or different in these periods?
What comparison can you draw between the issues raised in the civil rights movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and the movement during the 1960s? Compare the views of Booker T. Washington (Document 18-3) and W. E. B. Du Bois (Document 20-6) with those of Hamer and Malcolm X.
Analyze and evaluate the advantages and disadvantages to historical understanding of the periodization of the civil rights movement offered here. What alternatives to this periodization could you suggest and why?