Robert Kennedy CORE rally speech

Assessing the ‘Sixties’

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Our course text asks us to consider whether the sixties were a decade of hedonism or one of heightened social responsibility. For this forum:

Discuss whether it was decade of hedonism or one of heightened social responsibility using our privilege of having what is now a half-century of hindsight.

Choose one of the documents in Chapter 13, and read it carefully, putting yourself in the shoes of the person who wrote it.

Read the essays at the end of the chapter.

Create a post in which you re-write the document from the perspective of the initial author, fifty years later.

Discuss what that person might have stated had s/he known then what is known of the world and America today.

After reading an interacting in this discussion:

Create a culminating post assessing the era based on what the class has interpreted.