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Civil Disobedience Chapter: p. If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian. Both JFK and RFK wanted to avoid sending federal troops into Alabama, and they believed that real and lasting changes could only be accomplished through negotiations among black and white leaders within the local community.
Dolan was sent to Birmingham along with Assistant Attorney General Burke Marshall, head of the Civil Rights Division, to help mediate the racial conflict there as well as to provide first-hand reports on the situation. Bolden, Tonya. Abrams Books for Young Readers, Brimner, Larry Dane.
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Sources and Historical Background Materials All materials are included in the downloadable lesson plan. Question: What do these words mean to you and how do they relate to the kind of government we have in the United States? Can you name some parts of the community which these local elected officials are responsible for regulating e.
Give an example of a law or regulation for each area. Can you think of any local law or regulation that some people might find to be annoying or objectionable? Should they still obey it? If a majority of local elected officials happened to be biased against, or in favor of, a particular group within the community and passed laws reflecting that bias—what might concerned citizens do?
Which sections of the US Constitution could they cite to challenge the discriminatory laws? Questions: Who do you think created these ordinances, and why? Today, most people recognize such laws as being extremely discriminatory. In what ways are they unfair? How might African Americans have challenged the segregation laws?
Any law that degrades a person is unjust, according to Dr. In what way does he think segregation is degrading to the individual? What is the connection that King sees between unjust laws and racial discrimination in voting? What attitude does King say one should adopt if breaking an unjust law?
What new questions did they raise for you about this event? Optional follow-up questions: Provide more information about the photo at left of the police dog lunging at the young man.
Specific questions about the individual photos: Photo at left: Do you think you would have reacted to the police dog any differently from this young man had you been in his shoes? How so? But is that really a feasible standard for the imperfect world in which we live? Of course, for anarchists, this is a very welcome conclusion! So the Prime Minister and his colleagues have overstated the case that in suggesting there might be times when disobeying unjust laws is justified, McManus is somehow advocating chaos.
As a civil libertarian he should know better. And yet McManus needs to understand that the grounds for civil disobedience must be carefully considered. You need to take the public good to heart, and not simply your own particular interests. Socrates was willing to die for the sake of his city. Martin Luther King was imprisoned and ultimately assassinated. These are perhaps the extreme cases. But it speaks to the dilemma of how free societies deal with deep disagreement, including about the nature of injustice.
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