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QUESTIONS:

1. U.S. Representative and civil rights leader Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., responded to a reporter who asked him, “I take it, then, that you are advocating Negroes in New York to stay out of these national chain stores?” with “Oh no, that’s not true. I’m advocating that American citizens interested in democracy stay out of chain stores.” What do Powell’s body language, tone, and diction in this scene of the documentary convey about the Civil Rights Movement?

2. How did Mayor Ben West’s paradigm shift in response to the student sit-ins in Nashville help pave the way for the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and ultimately, the Voting Rights Act of 1965?

3. When talking about spending time in jail for demonstrating, one of the activists explains how the prison guards ordered a black inmate named Peewee to beat him, saying, “Do you remember when your parents used to whip you and say, “It’s gonna hurt me more than it hurts you?’ It hurt Peewee more than it hurt me.” What did the activist mean? Why did beating the activist hurt Peewee?

4. During an interview with Time Magazine, Adams said, “Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them, but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths.” What does this mean?

Need first half page for the first 3 questions, and the second half for questions 4, 5.