plac 2.5

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

The Autobiography

Patrick Henry

“Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death!”

Thomas Paine (1776–1783)

The American Crisis (Common Sense) 

Henry David Thoreau

Civil Disobedience (1849)

Mohandas Gandhi

On Nonviolent Resistance (1916)

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Letter from Birmingham Jail (1963)

Baldwin

The White Man’s Guilt

Michael Griffith:

• Howard Beach 

• 23-year-old, male, African American 

• Murdered– group of white males harassed him and his friends: Sandiford, Grimes

  • Grimes got away unharmed, Sandiford knocked unconscious, Grimes severely beaten, Michael killed by automobile 

• Bominick Blum (court officer) found innocent– ties to the police 

Eleanor Bumpers:

• High Bridge 

• African American, late 60s, 300-pounds– arthritis and diabetes, assumed to be mentally ill 

• Failed to pay rent (for 5 months) 

• Got shot in the chest by a shotgun – different articles to how and why 

• 6 officers vs. 1 woman – unreasonable amount of people and equipment 

Michael Stewart:

• 25-year-old, black man

• Arrested for graffiti count and possession of marijuana cigarette stub 

• Arrested → hospital – 32 minutes 

  • Arrived at hospital with coma, handcuffed, legs taped together → death after 2 weeks 

• Cardiac arrest → spinal damage – police brutality 

• Civil trial result: “lack of evidence” 

• Witness afraid to testify 

Tawana Brawley:

• Black, 15 year old, highschooler 

• Abducted and raped by law enforcements– evidence covered

  • Found wrapped in plastic garbage bag 

• Told the truth and stuck with it despite what others had said

Public Enemy

Fight the Power (1989)

Arthur Miller

On the Shooting of Robert Kennedy

Elie Wiesel

The America I Love