Week #3(A) Assignment     

Students are to go to the following website: www.youtube.com

You need to enter the following into the search engine located at the top:

Eyes on the prize-05-Mississippi, is this America, 1962-1964. Please watch the entire video which is approximately 55 mins in length. You will need to answer 4 questions. Additionally, please have in hand a copy of the Los Angeles Times article dated, 9/8/2013, section A29, OP-ED, entitled: “Obamacare: New Fight, Old Tactics.” by Nelson Lichtenstein. You need this article to answer question #4. Please do ALL WORK ON ETUDES WEBSITE. Thank you.

QUESTIONS: 

1. Dave Dennis from CORE is shown speaking at James Chaney’s funeral as a young man. As an older man he states, “This country operated then and still operates on violence, an eye-for-an-eye, a tooth-for-a-tooth; that’s what we respect.” Discuss the pros/cons of his statement.