Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Birmingham

Today in class we finished our discussion of Native Son, Book II. Then we explored the Birmingham campaign of 1963.  You can see the video that we looked at in class by watching both of the following clips: Birmingham Part I and Birmingham Part II.  We followed that by taking a close look at excerpts from Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter From Birmingham City Jail, focusing on the detail, structure, and philosophy of individual quotes and then presenting their meanings in a series of physical tableau with our groups.