COM 341 MWF 12–12:50

Margaret D. Zulick, Inst.

zulick@wfu.edu

Carswell 301

Carswell 318 x6121

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Date

Subject

Facilitator

Wed Jan 14

Introduction to the Course

Fri Jan 16

Theories of Rhetorical Movements

Mon Jan 19

Martin Luther King Day—No Class

Material Conditions and the Genesis of Movements

Wed Jan 21

Reconstruction and Jim Crow

Latraviette Smith

Fri Jan 23

Progressivism and the Concept of Labor
Read: Outline of American History, (online source), chapter 8

The Labor Movement

Mon Jan 26

Underpinnings of the Labor Movement

Wed Jan 28

Defense of August Spies

McNair Tornow

Fri Jan 30

Eugene Debs, "American Movement"

Tenika Rudisell

Mon Feb 2

Eugene Debs, "Canton, OH Speech"

Mimi Joshi

Wed Feb 4

Samuel Gompers, "Trade Unionism vs. Socialism"

Brian Goolsby

Fri Feb 6

Labor Socialism at Midcentury

Mon Feb 9

First Debate

Civil Rights 1954–1964

Wed Feb 11

Understanding the Civil Rights Movement

Fri Feb 13

Video, "Montgomery to Memphis"
First Paper Due

Mon Feb 16

King, "Letter from Birmingham Jail"

Herman Lewis

Wed Feb 18

King, "I Have a Dream"

Megan Kramer

Fri Feb 20

Video, "Freedom on My Mind"

Mon Feb 23

Review for Midterm

Wed Feb 25

Midterm Exam

Black Power

Fri Feb 27

The Controversy

Mon Mar 2

James Farmer v. Malcolm X, "Separation or Integration"

Tommy Jenkins

Wed Mar 4

Malcolm X, "The Ballot or the Bullet"

Ashlee Miller

Fri Mar 6

Second Debate

The Age of Protest

Mon Mar 16

The Political Roots of Student Protest

Wed Mar 18

The Cultural Roots of Student Protest

Fri Mar 20

Port Huron Statement

Robert Johnson

Mon Mar 23

Savio, "Speech at Berkeley"

Eric DeRose

Wed Mar 25

King, "Declaration of Independence from the War in Vietnam"

Mac Foster

Fri Mar 27

Third Debate

Mon Mar 30

Video: Chicago 1968

The Second Wave of Feminism

Wed Apr 1

The First Wave and the Second Wave

Fri Apr 3

Friedan, "The Problem That Has No Name"

Cheryl Zimmerman

Mon Apr 6

SNCC Position Paper: Women in the Movement

Wed Apr 8

Kathie Sarachild, "Program for Feminist Consciousness Raising"

Jennie Alcorta

Fri Apr 10

Good Friday

Mon Apr 13

Steinem, "Testimony"

Clay Rhodes

Wed Apr 15

TBA, Cultural Feminism

Adam Zajac

Fri Apr 17

Fourth Dialogue

Backlash and the Militia Movement

Mon Apr 20

Wills, "The New Revolutionaries"

Susan Faust

Wed Apr 22

 TBA

Nathan Olney

Fri Apr 24

Mon Apr 27

 Fifth Dialogue

Wed Apr 29

Second Paper Due