American Democracy and the Promise of Justice

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 19.03.10

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale
  3. Unit Objectives
  4. Teaching Strategies
  5. Sample Lesson Plans
  6. Bibliography
  7. Student Reading List
  8. Appendix A: Implementing Common Core Standards
  9. Endnotes

Chasing the Dream: The Civil Rights Movement and Desire for American Equality

Matthew Ronald Menschner

Published September 2019

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Endnotes

  1. James Baldwin and William F. Buckley. (1965) “Is the American Dream at the Expense of the American Negro?” Debate at Cambridge University, England.
  2. James Cone, “Martin and Malcolm and America: A Dream or a Nightmare?” 4th ed. Orbis Books, 2017, 2.
  3. Ibid., 21.
  4. Ibid., 26.
  5. Ibid., 36.
  6. Ibid., 38-40.
  7. Ibid., 42-44.
  8. Peter Irons, “A People’s History of the Supreme Court” Penguin Books, 2006, 383.
  9. Michael J. Klarman, “Unfinished Business: Racial Equality in American History” Oxford University Press, 2007, 147-52.
  10. Dean E. Robinson, “Black Nationalism in American Politics and Thought” Cambridge University Press, 2001, 37.
  11. Alex Haley, “An Interview with Malcolm X” Playboy Magazine, May 1963.
  12. Nikole Hannah-Jones, “It Was Never About Busing” The New York Times, July 12, 2019.
  13. James Cone, “Martin and Malcolm and America: A Dream or a Nightmare?” 4th ed. Orbis Books, 2017, 60.
  14. John F. Kenney, “Radio and Television Address on Civil Rights” June 11, 1963.
  15. Noah Remnick, “The Civil Rights Act: What JFK, LBJ, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X Had to Say” The Los Angeles Times, June 28, 2014.
  16. Robert A. Caro, “The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Passage of Power” Random House, 2012, 558-70.
  17. Ibid, 569.
  18. Darlene Clark Hine, William C. Hine and Stanley Harrold, “African Americans: A Concise History” 4th ed. Pearson, 2012, 527.
  19. Ibid, 528.
  20. Dean E. Robinson, “Black Nationalism in American Politics and Thought” Cambridge University Press, 2001, 74.
  21. James Cone, “Martin and Malcolm and America: A Dream or a Nightmare?” 4th ed. Orbis Books, 2017, 194.
  22. Ibid., 231-43.
  23. Martin Luther King, Jr., “A Christmas Sermon on Peace” Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta, GA., December 24, 1967.

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