Prep
- A Call for Unity’ (12 April 1963). The letter from eight moderate white Alabama clergymen that prompted King’s jailhouse retort a few days later.
- Martin Luther King, Jr., ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’ (1963). keywords: massive resistance; nonviolent resistance; Satyagraha.
In Class
- Attendance
- Q&A: TBA
- Reading Notes for Next Time
For Next Time
- Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer (2020), Ch. 3 (‘Politics’): ‘The Civil Rights Movement’; ‘Backlash’