Date assigned
Tuesday, January 22
Assignment
Listen to/read Martin Luther King, Jr.'s speech, "Beyond Vietnam - A Time to Break Silence" (link). Highlight or underline the speech (no annotation), and answer the following questions:
Due date
Thursday, January 24
Tuesday, January 22
Assignment
Listen to/read Martin Luther King, Jr.'s speech, "Beyond Vietnam - A Time to Break Silence" (link). Highlight or underline the speech (no annotation), and answer the following questions:
- Why did Dr. King think that people should have opposed the Vietnam War?
- How did Dr. King connect the Vietnam War to the Civil Rights Movement in the United States?
- What difficulties did Dr. King see in opposing the Vietnam War?
- What was Dr. King referring to when he spoke of “deadly Western arrogance that has poisoned the international atmosphere”?
- How does Dr. King describe the actions of the United States Vietnam War as he imagined it through the eyes of the Vietnamese people?
- Dr. King stated, “A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.” Explain what this quote means to you.
- Write at least 5 quotes that jumped out at you while reading/listening to this speech.
Due date
Thursday, January 24
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