Each member of this group should do the following:
1. Provide a brief summary (in your own words) of your topic.
2. State what you want your audience to understand after they watch your performance.
3. Identify your best source for primary source material thusfar.
1. After doing some basic research today, it is my understanding that the Poor People's Campaign was designed and led by Martin Luther King Jr., in 1967 to address the injustice that the poor people were facing in the United States. The goal of the campaign was to create equality in economics, income, housing, and basic needs of the poor people. The campaign worked to lobby Congress for the "Economic Bill of Rights," which more specifically asked the federal government with an antipoverty package, which ensured a stable income and housing.
ReplyDelete2. After having out audience watch our performance I want them to understand the process it took to establish justice and gain civil rights to all societal classes in the United States in the late 60's. In addition, I think it is important for them to understand that Martin Luther King Jr. was not just devoted to helping poor blacks, but generally, poor Americans. It will also be important that we get the main purposes of the Campaign across to our audience and how the contributors worked to achieve justice.
3. So far I like the Gale, U.S. History in Context. I used basic information today and I'm pretty sure that was the database I used in addition to http://www.poorpeoplescampaignppc.org/default.html.
1. Based off of the research that I had gathered, the poor people's campaign was conceived in 1967 and was led by Martin Luther King Jr. Another name for the campaign was the "Poor People's Washington Campaign." The goal of this campaign was to achieve federal legislation that would ensure full employment, establish a guaranteed income, and promote construction of low-income housing. When Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, new leadership came from Rev. Ralph Abernathy. The failure of the campaign led to end of the civil war era.
ReplyDelete2. After watching our performance, I want the audience to learn that anything is achievable if you put you mind to it. This campaign was struggling with problems from all around, especially when Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. It didn't stop them from achieving their goal because someone else stepped up as a leader. They never gave up, and because of them, the civil war era ended.
3. I also find the Gale U.S. History to be extremely helpful. It has all the information that can be used to help us with our project.
1. my topic is about the poor peoples campaign and what that is about is the black society trying to get there right back from the white society. The want the rights to the same jobs, same houses, education, pretty much everything. so what they do is that the black society follows great leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. and Reverend Ralph Abernathy towards famous speeches in world history.
ReplyDelete2. i want the audience to understand the effort and losses that the blacks worked for so that they could get there rights.
3. the most best information that i think that i found is a newspaper that i found online all about the poor peoples campaign.
http://afsc.org/sites/afsc.civicactions.net/files/documents/1968%20PPC%20Brochure.pdf
1. The Poor People’s Campaign was developed by Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and it was King’s last big attempt to getting the United States into order. This campaign was considered to be in the “second wave” of the civil rights movement, as t he first wave was about getting civil liberties for the black population, while the second wave and the Poor People’s Campaign is about creating equality in economic liberties, income, housing, and basic needs for the poor population. The people of the campaign lobbied in Washington D.C. for the “Economic Bill of Rights” and went in the nonviolent direction. During the middle of the campaign, King was assassinated and therefore Rev. Abernathy took over his duty as president, however it lacked the momentum that King had provided. They failed to force a response from legislators and the campaign closed camp in June of 1968. However, it was resurrected in Chicago in December of 2003.
ReplyDelete2. What I think the audience should understand from this performance is that, just because Martin Luther King Jr., the head and face of the campaign, was assassinated during the middle of their tour, should not stop the campaign. The issues were and are real so having an important person die does not mean that one should give up. The campaign lost their momentum when King was pronounced dead but they still kept going. Eventually they gave up, but the audience should get a feeling that they should not have given up, and that they should have keep fighting for what they thought was right.
3. The best place that I have found primary sources is the website below. This website mentions facts, but also has audio of King speaking and leads me to find other primary sources as it mentions them in the text. http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/king/b1.html
1.) The Poor People’s Campaign was a campaign organized by Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (which King was president of). The Campaign’s primary focus was to promote even distribution of wealth among Americans and to eradicate poverty among Americans. Unlike King’s other primary focuses, the Poor People’s Campaign focused not only on poor black people, but poor American’s of every ethnicity across the states. King wanted to gather poor people of every ethnicity in D.C. and non-violently protest to gain economic equality for all. Before this could happen however, King was assassinated, and Reverend Abernathy took over for King. The protest went on, but was not a success and ended up with violence and non-peaceful protest, which King stated he didn’t want.
ReplyDelete2.) I think the audience should see what brought about the Poor People’s Campaign, what life was like for the poor people, what King wanted to do, people’s views who opposed the campaign, what people felt when King died, what happened when the Campaign officially took place, and what caused the overall failure of the campaign. The audience should also understand how King’s ideas were changing towards the end of his life, why people rejected the campaign, and why the campaign could have failed.
3.) So far the best primary source is the packet that you gave to us. I have found a lot of great quotes and view points in there, and have really found actual stories instead of just facts. I’m having trouble finding good primary sources online, but hopefully if I keep looking I’ll be able to find more good ones.
1. After doing basic research, I learned that the Poor Peoples Campaign was created in 1967 by Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. The goal of this campaign was to help the poor people get health care, obtain jobs, and get a decent house. The Poor People’s Campaign focused on people of every ethnicity in America. King Jr. wanted everyone to gather in D.C. and non-violently protest so everyone could get equality. King was assassinated and Ralph Abernathy took King’s position. The protests went on but it was not a success.
ReplyDelete2. After having an audience watching our performance, I want them to learn that anything can be achieved if you set your mind to it. I also want them to understand the process it took to get justice and civil rights for everyone.
3. So far, my best primary source I have used would probably be the Gale U.S. History in Context.