Thursday, February 28, 2008

African American lives 2

African American Lives....The History
Link To Website : http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/aalivestoolkit/

Task: Feb. 13 channel 13 9pm Questiions to answer:
1. Who is doctor Henry Gates?
2. Choose an interviewee and discuss the followiing:
The historical events of his or her famiily
The historical significance of his or her family.

1. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University, as well as director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research.
2. The interviewee that i picked was Chris Rock.
In March 1865 , Julius Caesar Tingman enlists with the U.S. Colored Troops after twenty-one years as a slave. Tingman, Chris Rock's great, great grandfather, remains in the army until 1866. In the 1940s Alan Rock, Chris Rock's grandfather left South Carolina to go to New York City where he became a cab driver and preacher. These historical facts about Chris Rock family holds a great significance to him because he knew knew this information before. He found out that his great, great gradnfather had been in the army.

The other America


The Other America was a speech delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on April 4, 1967, at a meeting of Clergy and Laity Concerned at Riverside Church in New York City.

1. In this speech Martin Luther King Jr. talks about two americas. He talks about betrayal and silence.

2. The radio broadcaster mentions this speech goes beyond the civil rights agenda. This is so because the Vietnam war doesn't have anything to do with the civil rights movements. The Vietnam war didn't even occur in the United Stated so it does go beyond the civil right agenda. As Martin Luther King Jr. interaction with the nation grew he began to see that there were larger issues that America needed to think about.

3. Dr. King speaks against the War in Vietnam. He said that the war in Vietnam is but a symptom of a far deeper malady within the American spirit, and if we ignore this sobering reality we will find ourselves organizing clergy- and laymen-concerned committees for the next generation.