The episode begins in 1961 with the Albany Movement in Georgia, foregrounding tensions between Charles Sherrod, the young leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and King’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and considering the tactical weaknesses and ultimate failure of the movement, at least circa the early 1960s. I love this episode because it highlights the complexity and fractiousness of the civil rights movement, its ups and downs across time and space, and the constant ethical challenges that its leaders and its activists faced, thought through, argued about, and then acted upon. My favorite episode, and the one I have taught most often, is episode 4, “No Easy Walk: 1961-1963.”
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Almost every time, I’ve also screened and discussed with my students various episodes of “Eyes on the Prize,” the important 14-episode documentary series about the U.S.
I’ve taught it countless times in my almost four decades of teaching political theory. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” is a classic of American political thought and of American literature more generally. “I merely took the energy it takes to pout, and I wrote some blues.” – Duke Ellington
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