Is Baltimore Burning?

Outline:

• Continue discussion of "Is Baltimore Burning?"

(Go to the Archives site (mdsa.net), education and outreach, document packets, Is Baltimore Burning, and review the documents there)
 
• Objectives:

 

 

• to examine what we can know about recent events for which there is an abundance of evidence
• to reconstruct both the story of what happened, how it happened, and what the consequences seem to have been
• who are the principal players?
  
  
• assignment for tonight (discussed last week in class)
• carefully examine the transcript of  H. Rap Brown's speech
• ask yourself how inflamatory is it?
• does it justify a criminal indictment?
• carefully examine Agnew's remarks to the leaders of the African American community as reported in his papers
• ask yourself how inflamatory were they
• were they justified?
• how do they compare to H. Rap Brown's speech?

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