In addition to your response, please remember to reply to at least two of your classmates’ posts. I look forward to reading your responses!
This week’s lessons and reading deals with the creation and expansion of democracy and civil rights in the United States. While often associated with African Americans, the lesson makes clear that many groups have struggled for and achieved greater equality in our political system and society as a whole. However, it is also recognized that we still have a long way to go and will likely never completely achieve perfect equality… My prompt for you this week is two-fold.
1). Which group do you think are most in need of greater equality (Civil Rights) in America today? There are obviously many possible answers to this question and writing about one group does not mean you don’t recognize the trials and tribulations of other groups.
2). How do you think this group should go about attaining greater equality? Should they seek to change the system through the courts like the NAACP? Or should they seek to inspire legislative change like MLK and the nonviolent faction of the Civil Rights Movement? Or, should they follow the advice of Malcom X and demand and fight for their equality “by any means necessary”? Or, is there another way you think Civil Rights can and should be achieved in the modern era?
Please be sure to follow the format described in the links provided here and in the syllabus.
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/subject_specific_writing/professional_technical_writing/memos/sample_memo.html (Links to an external site.)
https://twp.duke.edu/sites/twp.duke.edu/files/file-attachments/policy-memo.original.pdf