Week 12: violent and nonviolent resistance (March 25-29)
Assignment due!
Essay 2 is due Wednesday, March 27, by 5pm.
Monday, March 25
Required
- King, Jr., M.L. (1963). Letter from Birmingham City Jail (PDF)
Links to an external site.
- You could instead read this letter online in The Atlantic, Links to an external site. where it was originally published in 1963
- King, Jr., M.L. (1957). Nonviolence and racial justice Links to an external site.. Christian Century. Retrieved from https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/nonviolence-and-racial-justice Links to an external site.
Optional
- Background on the Letter from Birmingham City Jail
- The public statement he was responding to Links to an external site., from Alabama clergymen
- Background info on the letter Links to an external site.from Al Jazeera news
Wednesday, March 27
Required
Brownlee, K. (2004). Features of a paradigm case of civil disobedience. Res Publica, 10(4), 337-351. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11158-004-2326-6 Links to an external site.
- Links to an external site.This article is available on the Library Online Course Reserves page for this course.
- You can skip the "Methdology" section, pp. 338-340.
Optional
Brownlee K. and Parr, T. (2015). Race, rioting, and civil disobedience Links to an external site..
- The above article used to be published at thecritique.com, but that website seems to no longer exist.
- The article talks about Malcolm X; here is a short overview of some of Malcolm X’s views Links to an external site., including when violence might be justified.
What to do before next week
- Read the materials for next week (see week 13)
- If you wish, post on the discussion board for nonviolent and violent resistance
Image credit: Martin Luther King, Jr. at the March on Washington (DC) Links to an external site. in 1963, public domain on Wikimedia Commons