Essay Option 1: Argue for or against the following assertion: 'Michael Klarman is wrong. His argument is too clever: white backlash after Brown shows that southern whites would have ever resisted movements toward legal racial equality, not that Brown produced a resistance that otherwise would not have existed. In short, Dudziak is right: only a 'revolution from above' - and one brought by the Cold War - could have produced anything like a successful Civil Rights Movement. Korematsu, after all, showed that the policy stance of the U.S. government is of elemental importance: decide one way and life is good; decide the other… and life is tragic. And that is as it should be: if we embrace democracy as good…freedom can only be as secure as the government entrusted to protect it.'
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