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Item The Civil Rights Movement for Intellectual Change(The African American Intellectual History Society, 2018-12-11) Davis, Joshua; Legal, Ethical and Historical Studies; Legal, Ethical and Historical StudiesMore than half a century since the 1960s, scholars and citizens alike continue to grapple with how our country should remember the civil rights movement. To many observers, the movement’s calls for political change—to refashion America into an anti-racist democracy—represents its most profound legacy. Others remember the movement as a force for moral change. Largely forgotten, however, is how civil rights activists created a movement for intellectual change. Martin Luther King Jr., for instance, is widely recalled as an unimpeachable moral authority, as a master orator, and as a fierce proponent of democracy. But how many Americans today recall him as the powerful intellectual that he was–the inveterate reader and theoretician that many of his contemporaries knew him as?Item Death of the Dream(2021-05-10) Miller, Joshua; Bess, Jennifer; Robinson, Angelo; Lewis, Leslie; Dator, James; Hopper, Ailish; Center for Humanities; Bachelor's DegreeThis thesis seeks to assert that the American educational model is a symptom of overarching systemic racial oppression resembling a Trojan horse in the sense that it is designed to appease Black Americans in the present day and lull them into a false sense of security regarding their social positions in America. The analysis is primarily based on the American civil rights movement and argues that through the over fixation on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the omission of Malcolm X, African Americans are being indoctrinated into White supremacist schools of thought which aim to convince them that their racial struggles are over, and teach them to value the chance to be part of American society over being fully respected as human beings.Item The Impact of the 1960s: A Decade of Diversity, Dissonance, and Disenchantment on Hood College(1989-05-02) Francis, Susan; Hood College History; History Seminar