Critical Primary and Secondary Analysis II DUE:November 21, 2019Paper Topic:The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee: Understanding a Social Movement OrganizationSource:Many Minds, One Heart: SNCCs Dream for a New America–Introduction, Chapters 1-3,and 8-12Primary Sources:Paper Length: 4-6double-spaced page papers Paper Requirements:One-inch margins, twelve-point Times Roman Font, double spaced. NO CHEATING on spaces, margins. These must be set exactly as listed here. NO EMAILING OF PAPERSThis class is too largeto keep track of emailed papers. Please hand in a paper copy only that is absolutely 12 point roman times font and exactly one inch margins and double spaced. Do NOT attempt to take up space with margin changes or extra spacing, we WILL notice. NO FIRST DRAFT OF PAPERS, BUT OUTLINES CAN BE SUBMITTTED EARLY: We will not read first drafts, only the final submission. But you may submit an outline and a one-sentence thesis statement for our feedback if offered at least two full days before the assignment. Better to do this in person than over email. Paper Content: Answer thesequestion:Given the deep and powerful roots of Jim Crow and racial exclusion in American history, how did the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) challenge American notions and practices of American democracy? To answer this question, consider the evolving philosophy of SNCC. BIG QUESTION: What was the philosophy and tactics (practice) of SNCC from 1960 to 1964 and from 1966 to 1970? Show BOTH the philosophy and idealogy of SNCC before 1964 and the transition to Black Power. Why did the organization embrace Black Power? Explain?To get at the first part of the paper, from 1960 to 1964, on what basis was SNCC formed? What was their ideology, philosophy,and what were its tactics (traditions of resistance and protest against the Jim Crow South?). To do this consider two of the following civil rights campaigns: the Sit-Ins of 1960, the Freedom Rides of 1961, grassroots democracy projects in Mississippi (voter registration and Freedom Summer) and Georgia, and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and Atlantic City. This means more than simply showing how they dismantled Jim Crow (although this is foundational and must be demonstrated), but this question asks you to stretch and discuss how they challenged American democracy itself. This assignment also requires to consider the movements transition to Black Power. How and why did the philosophy and tactics of this organization change? What were the historical forces that caused this evolution?Drawing on at least two of these civil rights campaigns, consider the ideology, personalities, and tactics involved. You may also pick a particular civil rights organizer from SNCC, such as Fannie Lou Hammer, Bob Moses, John Lewis, Charles Sherrod, or Stokely Carmichael and show how their involvement challenged Jim Crow and American Democracy. How did SNCC differ from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and why did the youth of the organizers matter? What tactics did these youth develop? What ideologies? What was the role of race itself in their very organization? What is the difference between mobilization and organization? What did SNCC expel white members and how did it change its philosophy? Demonstrate your knowledge of the Many Minds, One Heart book and the available primary sources by showing how SNCC challenged American Democracy and the problem of Jim Crow in at least two civil rights campaigns. Use at least three primary sources and several quotes and citations from Many Minds, One Heart. How does looking at the civil rights movement through the lens of gender, women, and sexualviolence change how we see the civil rights revolution of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s? How did women and men respond to this violence and how did it shape the movement? Why didnt we know about these stories before now?To answer this question, chose at least two (it can be three) of the incidents of sexual violence and explore how they transpired and how they changed and/or shaped the movement. This can include Recy Taylor, Rosa Parks, Rosa Lee Ingram, Melba Patillo, Betty Jean Owens, Fannie Lou Hammer, or Joan Little (or any of the other women whose stories are central to this book). Compare how those events transpired with three of the following primary documents:Eyes on the Prize Reader1.Coming of Age in Mississippi Anne Moody2.A Letter from the Womens Political Council to the May of Montgomery3.Interview with Rosa Parks4.Interview with Bernice Johnson Reagan BB1.Interview with Fannie Lou HammerGuidelines: Remember, this assignment should not be written comprehensively as if you can retell the entire story of at least two of these women when Danielle McGuire required an entire book to tell that story. What you want to do is to come up with a major theme and then marshall your evidence from the book AND the primary sources to make your point. Discuss where and how and even IF the primary sources address sexual violence, and why or why not. Offer quotes from the primary sources and from the book, but dont offer long block quotes. Keep your quotes to no longer than three lines. What I am looking for here is your analysis of these quotes and ideas. A good thing to remember is that you want to offer the voice of some of these women, but then reinterpret for us what you think these stories tell us. Dont just leave a quote hanging on its own without some interpretation and analysis from you.Finally, remember your topic and the sensitivity of this issue that should be written about with respect to the sources, people, and difficult experiences that they face. But, at the same time, do not feel that you may not quote from the more grahpic experiences to make your point. You may, of course, both write respectfully and carefully and still discuss difficult instances of violence and struggles against that violence.
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