SWA #8-9

Barringer, Mark and Wells, Tom. AThe Anti-War Movement in the United States.@ 1999. The Oxford Companion to American Military History. 4 April 2008 http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/vietnam/antiwar.html.

These authors have written two different articles on the topic of the Anti-War Movement throughout the 1960's and 70's, both of which contain details on the trend of growing opposition, in America, to the war in Vietnam. Barringer actually begins his piece with a comparison to the Civil Rights Movement, and mentions its similar impact on life during this time, later in the article also. Wells and Barringer provide dates when noted anti-war actions occurred and these fall within the time period in which Gwendolyn Brooks wrote AMartin Luther King Jr.@ These pieces will be important contributions to my paper because the Vietnam War was another huge issue happening during King=s time and after it, when the poem was written. Martin Luther King opposed this war, and it might be a good addition to my paper to include the growing hatred of this war, espeically after his death.

CBS News. ANation Honors MLK 40 Years After His Death.@ 4 April 2008. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/04/national/main3994144.shtml.

This CBS News article describes the scene in Memphis, Tennessee as people honor and remember Martin Luther King Jr. on the fortieth anniversary of his death. Unlike the other articles I have looked at, this one gives me a unique angle to use in my paper. The article is describing how people=s lives today have been affected by Martin Luther King Jr., even though he died forty years ago. CBS provides me with quotes from people at the present time, and from people who actually marched with MLK and were involved in his movement, which shows a very personal perspective and emphasizes how huge of an impact MLK had and still has today. I am trying to emphasize this ongoing impact in my paper, so this should help.

Friedman, Michael. AMartin Luther King=s Dream Lives on 40 Years After His Death: Americans Remember the Days of Anger and Hope.@ 31 March 2008. America.Gov. 4 April 2008 http://www.america.gov/st/diversity‑english/2008/March/20080328113332zjsredba0.5366327.html.

Friedman=s article provides information about King=s assassination, as well as some events both preceding and following his death. He provides a significant quote from King=s last address, which may be useful in my paper, and he gives dates of when other important events occurred surrounding King=s death. This article gives me some extra insight into what was going on in terms of Civil Rights, besides the doings of Martin Luther King Jr., that I had not found much in other articles. Friedman also briefly touches on some of the effects King had on the future, which is important to include in my essay.

"King, Martin Luther, Jr.." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2008. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 4 Apr. 2008 http://www.britannica.com/eb/article‑3921.

This is a very informative article that also provides links to other topics and keywords having to do with Civil Rights. This specific article gives biographical information about Martin Luther King Jr.=s life and the many accomplishments of King. Contrary to several of the other sources I have found, this article also mentions some of King=s failed attempts as well as views of people who are critical of him, which is a new perspective. I can use the quotes that this article provides, in my paper also, as some of the details that the article mentions are about King=s effect on people after his death. I have had trouble finding a lot of information regarding what occurred and how people felt about King in the years following his death, and this article includes some of that information.

King, Martin Luther Jr. AI Have A Dream.@ Washington, D.C., 28 August 1963. YouTube 2008. 4 April 2008 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbUtL_0vAJk.

This is a video of Martin Luther King Jr.=s AI Have A Dream Speech,@ which he gave in the state capitol on August 28, 1963 at the March on Washington. This clip effectively shows the entirety of King=s speech that day, as well as the huge crowd that attended his speech and close-up images of individuals present. The video will assist me in writing my paper because it provides me with visual and auditory enhancements, so that I can get a feel for what King actually sounded like and the expressions people had on their faces while hearing him, as well as an idea of the amount of people who showed up to hear him speak. I had never seen the complete broadcast of King=s speech, and now that I have, I am more connected emotionally to the topic, and can use this video to quote King, himself, in my essay.

Paris, Peter J. AMartin Luther King Jr.=s Vision of America.@ Theology Today April 2008: 17-25. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Thomas Cooper Lib., U of South Carolina. 4 April 2008 https://pallas2.tcl.sc.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com.

Paris gives his positive point of view about Martin Luther King Jr. and his beliefs through an in depth analysis of King=s AI Have A Dream@ speech. The article includes many direct quotations from King=s speech, as well as Paris= own interpretation of these words. This article will help me because it includes some very specific words and quotations from King=s most memorable speech that I had not considered before, and that will fit nicely into my paper. Paris also includes some of his own beliefs about how King=s words are still used today, which is what I am trying to emphasize in my paper.