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 * Evan, Monica, Nolan, Alisha, and Rachel**, read and analyze five (5) of the listed readings below. Use the [|Primary Source Analysis Tool] to thoroughly analyze each of your documents. Dig deep to learn why that document exists.

Once you have analyzed a document, download the [|8.3.1 Readings.pages] document which is modeled after the table below. Complete each row of the table according to the readings you selected. Be critical and careful with your document analysis. A good method is to go one at a time: analyze one document, research the document's existence and learn why it was created. Then fill out a row of the 8.3.1 Readings.pages document (or simply type it in the table below).

In the "Analysis" column, put your name in the row for the documents you're reading. When finished, replace your name with the link to your completed "Primary Source Analysis Tool" PDF for that document -- make sure you change the name of these PDFs.
 * ~ Primary Source ||~ Analysis ||~ Description/Context ||~ Role in Civil Rights Movement ||
 * "On the Verge of a Dangerous Racial Conflagration" || Evan || The black people are starting to resist in any way possible to lynching. This all started after the unfair trial of Emit Till. Emit Till was just a kid that was beaten killed then threw in a river by two white people that wanted revenge for something that might not have happened. The black people will continue to resist until they have equal rights to the white people. || This lead to Black people to fight harder for the end of lynching. This also got all the Black people to push for more equal rights. ||
 * "Rules for Riding Desegregated Buses" || Evan || The African Americans just won equal rights on the buses. Then they where given these rules that way they would not get in trouble on the buses and nobody would get hurt. This was given to them after they boycotted the city buses. The black people are going to try and make the bus as peaceful as possible. || This lead African Americans to push for even more equal rights. ||
 * "No school in our state will be integrated" || Evan || The supreme court passes a law saying that it is unconstitutional for black people to go to different schools. The Mississippi governor is defying the governments orders by saying he will not integrate the schools. Then the president sent troops into Mississippi to stop the conflict and to enforce the supreme courts decision to mix the schools by allowing black and white people to go to school together. || This lead to blacks going to black and white schools because state troops backed up the supreme courts decision. ||
 * "Non-violence and Racial Justice 1957" || Alisha ||  ||   ||
 * "Letter from a Freedom Fighter's Father 1961" page 1, page 2, text only || Rachel || A student who is active in participating and opposing segregation by means of being a freedom rider. His father does not agree with these same beliefs and threatens to disinherit him and proposes psychiatric help for his son. He tells him that for being such a smart kid he has chosen a path that people could only look down upon and that he, as a father, feels to be a failure for creating a son that has came to be such a disappointment. Though, the son stuck with his belief despite his Fathers thoughts and later on became very known and respected for that, even his father placed him back into his will. || Though people did not agree with him or his actions at first, after sticking with his beliefs people started to respect and understand him. Though he had to go through punishment and tough times just the same, it turned out for the best and allowed many people to see things the way he saw them, and see how enforcing segregation (though it was not a law) was unfair. ||
 * "A Volatile Time, 1962" || Nolan || This document was about J Roberts fighting against protest in Albany Georgia.The protests were over the desegregation of schools. Meaning that the white kids and black kids would go to school together instead of split apart. This made a lot of people mad because back then people were really racist. ||  ||
 * "An Ugly Situation in Birmingham, 1963" || Rachel || This document was of a speech that the president at the time gave considering the situation in Birmingham, which dealt with equal rights between Whites and Blacks and protests. Activists set up a large protest and got around 1,000 people to protest (for the first day of protest) and 700 of those participating were children. After five days of protest and growing crowds, 2,500 protesters got arrested, 2,000 of them being children. High-pressure fire hoses and police dogs are let loose on them creating extremely violent images for all of the news to see. After a while business leaders decide to desegregate many of their businesses to stop all the fuss but because the governor (who strongly believed in segregation) said the compromise was not made by official leaders, it did not count. Riots started back up again and activists were beaten by state police with clubs and rifles. These scenes and protests then spread to other cities. The president claimed that the problem was looked to being solved within 24 hours and that this should be a caution to all other cities and that right now they just need to focus on treating every person with the same rights. || The happening of this major issue was noticed by many, many people in cities surrounding. They caught sight of this and maybe many activists were inspired as well to do what the activist in Birmingham did. If enough protests started going on all around america then maybe people would take notice and consider this as more of a real issue rather than thinking it’s no big deal. People became inspired from this and were angered with the sort of violences they saw happening that were going on all around them. Maybe Governors like this would have been taking out of office then when they showed that they obviously did not have the best interests involved for all of his people. ||
 * "Patience is a Dirty and Nasty Word" || Alisha ||  ||   ||
 * "One Volunteer's Freedom Summer, 1964" || Rachel || This document was by Terri Shaw, she was a woman who worked on the freedom summer campaign for blacks voting rights. They prepared for this for months to come and even had classes to teach the campaigners how to protect their vital organs while being beat. They were ready to prepare for the worst. While they were in Mississippi, white men who disagreed with what they were doing drove by several times throughout the day with guns in attempt to intimidate them. During their time their they had a family that took in each of them. Ia the family Shaw stayed in, the father of the household was very intelligent but never was able to earn the right to vote because when he went to take the test the advisor (who was white) failed him continuously. Several black men tried up to 12 times to register to vote but never were able to because of the white men who stopped them. One time 2 people who were part of the freedom summer campaign went out and got beat by 3 people and were seriously injured and hospitalized. The document explained how several white men in public stood and watched but the police were never called until 2 hours later when other workers on the campaign came to the scene. || Other people seeing these sights such as the beatings and the men passing by with guns would have saw how terrible this was and wanted to stop these things from happening. Although I’m sure many people wouldn’t have wanted to get involved because of all the violence they would gain because of people who disagreed with them, they at least would have thought about it and maybe saw the truth and thought that maybe the way they were treating blacks was inappropriate. ||
 * "Alabama Voter Registration Form, c.1964-65" || Nolan ||  ||   ||
 * "What does Mississippi Have to Do With Harlem? (1964)" audio || Nolan ||  ||   ||
 * "Creating an Open and Just City, 1966" || Alisha ||  ||   ||
 * "Two Societies, Separate and Unequal, 1967" || Nolan ||  ||   ||
 * "People, Acting Together, Are Power, 1967" || Monica ||  ||   ||
 * "The Goals of the Poor People's Campaign, 1968" || Alisha ||  ||   ||
 * "Where is the Draft for the Freedom Fight?" || Monica ||  ||   ||
 * "The Panthers' Ten-Point Platform" || Monica ||  ||   ||
 * "Attica Inmate Demands, 1971" || Nolan ||  ||   ||
 * "Both Parties Have Betrayed Us, 1972" || Alisha ||  ||   ||
 * "Keeping Atlanta Too Busy To Hate, 1975" || Monica ||  ||   ||
 * "Remember the Real Fight, 1975" || Monica ||  ||   ||
 * "Equal Opportunity Not Enough" || Rachel || This document was a commencement speech given by President Lyndon B. Johnson at Howard University concerning affirmative action policies and true equality in america. He explains how its not just enough for it to be said that black americans are “free” and are “equal” to very other white american citizen, the part has to actually be acted out and put into truth. He explains that 2 reasons the blacks are losing in their fight for true equality is because partly they are in a stage of poverty. Poverty as in money, poverty concerning education, and poverty as in real medical care. They are in this slump that is nearly impossible to get out of by themselves. Also, basically because of their history. Black men have the memory and the grudge against White men for their past, while white men can’t have those same feelings, simply because they haven’t had to experience such a thing. The worst the white men can feel is guilt from their history. He talks about how other minorities never had it this hard, because they never had such a past looming over them. He talks about unemployment which strikes directly at the African american Men, but how without white mans help (and employing them) they will never had a chance of coming out of their depression. || This speech was the president, the leader of our whole nation, finally coming out to just blankly saying, the african americans need our help and support too. It’s not enough to just say that they are “equal” and attempt to erase our whole past because we are embarrassed of our actions and guilt-ridden. Maybe once white americans saw their very own leader speaking out against their actions they would have believed that maybe, just maybe, he is right and that the way they have been treating Blacks is inappropriate and unfair. And they might realize that not only do they have to stop treating them unjustly, but they might actually have to help them too, in order to get the presidents ideal america. ||
 * "Report on the Miami Riot, 1981" || Evan || African Americans where mad that a black person was killed by a white person and nothing was done to give them justice. Then no actions where not taken to stop it from happening. Then the police got out of the city witch made it even worse because it made it so that there was no one there to stop them. This caused for a bloody destructive conflict between the whites and the blacks. || This caused for many African Americans to push for equality and be arrested. ||
 * "Young Residents of Cabrini Green" || Rachel || This document was like a description of Cabrini Green, a small town outside of Chicago that is made up of 70% black children. It’s a terrible area where children are forced to grow up practically on their own and gangs and violence are not uncommon. There has been a serious number of police there in the past few months (of that time) and even the mayor of the town came to stay in an apartment complex that was particularly bad. She said she would stay for however long she had to until it improved. The children claimed that they no longer would wake up to hearing gun shots go off in the middle of the night and the other helpers in the city were starting to bring out a lot of talent in the children. After a while though the crime started to return and gangs were becoming very popular. They said usually children 11 or 12 would join and stay in the gang for long after. It gave them a sense of protection, identity, acceptance and respect. || I think that for a a lot of the Black men and women, having to grow up like this helped to make them into people who were not afraid to stand up for themselves. They would be used to doing whatever they had to just to survive and wouldn’t allow people to just push them around. Since they were children, and the next generation, they could have saw how blacks were treated during their childhood and when they grew up they would have known to not accept that same kind of treatment. They would have been more likely to stand up for themselves I think. ||
 * "We Must Have a Black Mayor, 1983" || Evan || African Americans where saying that they wanted a black mayor. It is the way with every race they want to achieve things like being a mayor or president because it makes the whole race happy and proud that they have achieved that. Then people like whites are asking why they need one. Which encouraged some to achieve it even more then before because someone is saying they cant while they know that they can achieve it. || This gave African Americans things to work to and try to accomplish. ||