Project description
you will do a four (4) page analytical essay comparing and contrasting the current Civil Rights movement happening, in places like Charlotte, North Carolina, Baton Rogue, Louisiana, New York City, and Ferguson, Missouri, in response to police brutality, the prison industrial complex, economic systematic oppression, and the continued disenfranchisement of Black people in the United States to other Civil Rights movement moments in Black America.
You may choose different ways of comparing/contrasting including, but not limited to:
Important issues; Goals; Response from government (local/national); Method of resistance; Media representation of movement; Leader(s) of movement; Violence; Community involvement; #BlackLivesMatter (Twitter); Gender; Concept of Black Power; Impact of Nonviolent vs. Violent protests
Instruction files
african_american_studies.docx(12,54 KiB)