For our Final meeting, Wednesday morning, May 5, 10:00 a.m..

Martin Luther King’s approach to the civil rights movement.

We will discuss the “black power” wing of the civil rights movement, such as embodied in Malcolm X and Stokely Carmichael.

Non-discrimination? Equal access? Charitable choice? These questions and more, raised here.

How should public institutions balance the principles of non-discrimination and free association?

Read and participate in an online discussion.

Twenty-four years after Kennedy’s address to the Houston Ministerial Association, Catholic governor Mario Cuomo found it important to address the relationship between religion and public morality.

We will discuss JFK’s Speech to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association.

Review and write a response to 4-6 additional items in the health care debate.

More resources of interest relating to debates over the recently passed Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act of 2010.

Your assignment for Tuesday.

Your assignment due by end of class on Thursday, March 25.

Resources for all things Twitter.

Resources related to the Scopes Trial and continuing debates about faith, reason, and science.

Bring to class your typed answers to these questions, with an appropriate list and short description for each.

Our topic for this week: Faith and Reason, as represented in the 1960 movie, “Inherit the Wind.”

Come prepared to answer the following questions.

Anna Howard Shaw, The Fundamental Principle of a Republic, 1915

A few key excerpts from the pieces we’re reading for this section of the course.

Let’s read and discuss this argument against women’s suffrage:

Goodwin, Women’s Suffrage, 1884

No reading response questions for today. But come ready to engage in a thoughtful discussion, analyzing the nature of these arguments. Be ready to compare and contrast these against the arguments of The Seneca Falls Declaration and Stanton’s “The Solitude of Self.”

A fascinating read:

Andrew Carnegie, The Gospel of Wealth and Other Essays
Excerpts of the essay, “The Gospel of Wealth”

Two key documents from the beginnings of the women’s movement.

We will meet in the Doc Lacy’s Conference Room at 3:35. Feel free to grab a drink on your way in.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Address to the Commonwealth Club, and First Inaugural Address

Your readings from Addams, Bryan, and Wilson.

Due Tuesday, Jan. 26: Read these three excerpts of arguments by William Graham Sumner.

Due Thursday, Jan. 21, at the first of class.

Due Tuesday, Jan. 19, at the first of class.

I have selected a text for this class period which gives us an opportunity to review important sources of public motivation for action and reform in American history.