Rights and Issues of Race
Paper instructions:
Compose a reflection of at least 400 words in which you explain what answer you believe Zinn, Douglass, King, Malcolm X, and Steele would give to the following question:

Is there any need in America today to continue affirmative action in hiring and college admissions—programs designed to make sure that qualified candidates of color and women receive a chance to compete equally with all other candidates?

The Dispossession of Native Americans:

Howard Zinn: A People’s History of the United States, Chapter 1: Columbus, The Indians, and Human Progress (1980/2005):

http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/zinncol1.html

Slavery:

Howard Zinn: A People’s History of the United States, Chapter 2: Drawing the Color Line (1980/2005):

http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/zinncolorline.html

Frederick Douglass: Selections from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845):

http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/DouNarr.html

Read these chapters: 1, 2, 4, 7, [click on the individual chapter links to open]

“What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” (July 5, 1852):

http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=162

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: “Letter from Birmingham Jail” (1963):

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