Generational differences between Lewis, Martin Luther King and A. Philip

Which version of this speech is more radical and aggressive? Explain, using examples from each version to show how it changed. How old was John Lewis, Martin Luther King and A. Philip Randolph, when Lewis gave this speech? What were the generational differences between Lewis on one hand, and King and Randolph, on the other? How does age, and generational differences, often affect people’s political ideas? You can mention the affect that generational difference may have had, in King and Randolph wanting certain changes in the speech, and why they wanted those changes. What does the second version emphasize that the first does not? Why do you think that King, Randolph, and the others wanted these changes? What did they want to encourage? What did they want to discourage? Based on the differences in the two versions, what did King and Randolph wish to emphasize at the March on Washington? What political leader is clearly rejected in the first version of the speech, but praised in the second? Why? Why do you think King and Randolph wanted the remarks about Sherman’s March through Dixie taken out? Explain the political context of the speech: how do the following people, ideas, and events (a-c) fit into the speech? In other words, why does Lewis mention these people, these ideas, these events? What points is he trying to make by mentioning these? Why were they important in 1963, why would his audience immediately know who or what he is talking about? Eastland, Javits, Goldwater, Bamett, and Thurmond? Why were they mentioned in this speech? What was a “Dixiecrat”? What does he mean when he says, “ONE MAN, ONE VOTE” is the African cry.”? What was going on historically that he was referring to? What was happening in Africa in the early 1960s that had to deal with voting? He is NOT talking about African Americans, because he says next “It is ours, too.” That means he is differentiating between the two groups.            

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