AP US History
< wendyfeilen
Abstract: Nearly 50 years after Martin Luther King delivered his memorable “I have a dream” speech, there is a growing consensus that the civil rights movement, despite some important victories, has been a failure. While conceding that these critics have a point, Peter C. Myers faults them for embracing a radical critique of America that rejects America’s founding principles as racist, abandons the goal of integration, and fosters alienation. To reaffirm the old integrationist faith in America, Myers turns to the renowned 19th century abolitionist and advocate of civil and political equality Frederick Douglass.
Constituit bonos mores civitati princeps et vitia eluit, si patiens corum est, non tamquam probest, sed tamquam invitus et cum magno tormento ad castigandum veniat. [Justice is established, and vice eliminated, in the state if the ruler is patient with vice, not as if he approved of it, but as though he pursued it seemingly unwillingly and could only use force as a painful last resort.] Seneca, De Clementia I.22.3
Can I take a course at HippoCampus for credit?
Digital History (University of Houston) - http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/ Biography of America (Annenberg) - http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/ C-Span American Presidents - http://www.americanpresidents.org/presidents/yearschedule.asp
