paper 3 perspectives help.

Claybourne Carson (2020 Professor)

Montgomery bus boycott would have happened, even w/o MLK. Civil rights successful, before he became face of campaigns. Similarly, with the sit-ins, and the Freedom Rides, and the voting rights campaign. 

Dr Joe Street (1997) 

King became the lightning rod for the civil rights movement that emerged in the wake of the successful bus boycott. During the 1960s he gave speeches, led marches, and helped to reconstruct America race relations 

Peter Ling (1998)

“By adulating King for his work in the Civil Rights campaigns, we have misrepresented the complexity of those struggles and ignored some of the equally challenging campaigns of his last years”

Robyn Spencer, professor of history at Lehman College 

“You have the detractors who only see (the Panthers) as a militia, and then you have the folks who are actually happy for that because the times required it.”

Hugh Pearson

described the Blank Panther Party as “little more than a temporary media phenomenon”

Jacob Munoz (2021)

Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique appealed to women, addressing their discontent with the ingrained sexism in society that limited their opportunities. However, there were limits as it did not encompass LGBTQ+ or colored women.

Howard Zinn (1999)

“In the sixties and seventies, it was not just a woman’s movement, a prisoner’s movement, an Indian movement.  There was general revolt against oppressive, artificial, previously unquestioned ways of living.  It touched every aspect of personal life: childbirth, childhood, love, sex, marriage, dress, music, art, sports, food, housing, religion, literature, death, schools.”