After Watching This Episode, Choose from the Following Questions And/Or
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Friday, March 27 9:00am American Experience: Roads to Memphis, 9th thru 12th + grades "We were never concerned with who killed Martin Luther King but what killed Martin Luther King," says Andrew Young, former aide to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in ROADS TO MEMPHIS. From Emmy Award-winning director Stephen Ives, this film tells the wildly disparate yet fatefully entwined stories of an assassin, James Earl Ray, and his target, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., against the backdrop of the seething and turbulent forces in American society that led these two men to their violent and tragic collision in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968. ROADS TO MEMPHIS features eyewitness testimony from King's inner circle and the officials involved in Ray's capture and prosecution, and Hampton Sides, author of the upcoming book "Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin." After watching this episode, choose from the following questions and/or tasks to extend your learning For what purpose did Dr. King speak to the crowd at the Mason Temple in Memphis, Tennessee? What were King’s words “I've been to the mountaintop. And I don't mind” referring to? What role does James Earl Ray in the story of the Roads to Memphis? How did the nation react to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.? How do the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few as it relates to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.? Was the Civil Rights movement led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. a success? Please explain your reasoning. The manhunt that organized in the hours and days after King’s assassination was epic; most notably, more than 3,000 FBI agents took part, and it cost upwards of $2 million (which, adjusted for inflation, would be more than $13.6 million today). Considering how much Hoover despised King, was it startling that he mobilized the bureau to such an enormous extent to find his killer? Use mathematics to justify your reasoning. Continued on the next page… Learn more about the life of Dr. Martin Luther King: https://thekingcenter.org/about-dr-king/ https://www.naacp.org/dr-martin-luther-king-jr-mw/ Add the last lessons learned to the list you have been building over the week. Now think of a company you would want to own and run. Be creative and make it something you would enjoy and would be willing to spend a great deal of time working on. Create a storyboard/poster of what that business would be. Be sure to show how it would be different from any other business and why people would love to spend their hard earned money there. Now look at your list of lessons learned and identify how those lessons would impact how you run your business, how you lead your employees, and how you would connect to your community. Creatively incorporate those lessons in your story board and proudly present it to family/friends. .