When Governments Fail Their Citizens

 

 

 

What's the difference?

Hint - primary means "main" or "first."  Think about that in relation to when your source lived or was created.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

American History database

Modern World History database

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"Civil Rights History Project" from the U.S. Library of Congress

At this point to minute 26:50, Dr. King calls on Memphis citizens to use their power of "economic withdrawal."  The next morning, April 4, 1968, he was shot and killed as he stood on his second-floor motel balcony.  He was 39 years old.

Gandhi

Modern World History database

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"Ghandi and Civil Disobedience", by The Constitutional Rights Foundation

This 1982 Hollywood movie, "Gandhi," taught millions of people about Gandhi's life and work.  But the creators of the movie were deeply criticized for hiring Ben Kingsley, a white British actor wearing makeup, to play Gandhi instead of hiring an Indian or a man of Indian descent.

Nelson Mandela

Modern World History database

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Nelson Mandela - Timeline from the BBC News (British Broadcasting Company)

What Mandela says here, so early in his life and before prison, may surprise you.