The purpose of this assignment is to use the primary source analysis techniques you learned in class during the semester to produce a final essay.
Read the two attached primary source documents (below), Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dream” speech and Malcolm X’s “The Ballot or the Bullet”.
Then write a paper that addresses the following questions:
• Who wrote the documents and why?
• How do the two documents agree? How do they disagree?
• Why are the perspectives different?
• Under what specific historical circumstances were these documents created?
• What groups were the two authors associated with?
Consider the conflicting visions of America the two had: why were they acting the way they were?
Make specific connections to the documents and explain your thinking
• Which perspective would you agree with more, and why?