 | Voices of the
Civil Rights Era
- "On the surface, the 1960's opened with a sense of hope and expectation best
exemplified in JFK's Inaugural Address. While this was soon to be shattered for everyone
by the Kennedy killing and the continuing war, most of America's blacks were alienate d
even before these events."
- "Those who were called to action divided themselves into several major camps, each
with a different approach and methods. Perhaps the two most prominent were followers of
Martin Luther King, who advocated anonviolent approach patterned on Gandhi's suc cessful
Indian revolution, and those of Elijah Muhammad andMalcolm X, who initally felt that one
could only meet violent repression with violence in response."
- "Of course, all of the figures here met violent ends -- perhaps that makes it even
more interesting to see threedistinct visions of the future reflected in the selected
audio clips."
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