PART 1
1. How did the ideology of the New Left impact the rise of identity politics in the late 1960s and 1970s?
2. What had more of an impact ending the Vietnam War - Nixon's specific Vietnamization policies or the notion of detente?
3. How did Watergate impact the Nixon presidency (both short term and long term)?
PART 2
1. Why was Mississippi, as historian Bruce Watson says, on a 'hair trigger' on the eve of Freedom Summer?
2. What were the three main goals of Freedom Summer?
3. Why was voter registration such a crucial part of the civil rights movement?
4. What would it mean to 'challenge' the all-white delegation to the 1964 Democratic Convention?
5. Why did the mayor of Jackson purchase a steel-plated 'riot control' car? What did he think would happen?
6. After viewing, did the film change your understanding of the term 'civil rights'? What does it mean to you?
PART 3
1. How did King view the relationship between the Vietnam war and poverty at home? Is poverty and economic inequality civil rights issues?
2. What dilemmas did King encounter when he spoke out against the Vietnam War? How did he wrestle to reconcile his moral objection to the war with his responsibility as a leader?
3. What strategies did the SCLC employ in its campaign against poverty?
4. Why did the Poor People's Campaign face so much resistance?
5. Was King's assassination the end of the civil rights movement? Explain.