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PERIOD 8:

1945-1980

PERIOD 8 SHORT HISTORIES

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really, Period 8?!

Martin Luther King's famous 1963 speech was headed in a different direction until, in the middle of his address, a colleague quietly urged him to "talk about the dream," referring to a speech he had given many times. So King improvised.

PERIOD 8 ARTIFACTS (aka, primary sources)

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Amerigo Vespucci, explorer, letter to his patron, 1502

THE TRUMAN DOCTRINE

President Harry Truman, speech to congress, 1947

SOURCES OF SOVIET CONDUCT

X (George Kennan), foreign
affairs, journal, 1947

BIRMINGHAM CITY ORDINANCES

1951

HARLEM

Langston Hughes, poem, 1951

ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST

Ken Kesey, 1502

LETTER FROM A BIRMINGHAM JAIL

Martin Luther King, various publications, 1963

ADDRESS TO THE NATION ON CIVIL RIGHTS

President John Kennedy, television, 1963

I HAVE A DREAM

Martin Luther King, speech at the march on Washington, 1963

THEY ARE THE ONES THAT ARE SICK

George Wallace, campaign speech in Ohio, 1968

NIXON'S INAUGURAL ADDRESS

President Richard Nixon, 1969

ARE YOU POPULAR?

Coronet Instructional Films, 1947

HOME ECONOMICS EXAM

New York, 1950

RONALD REAGAN SPEAKS OUT AGAINST SOCIALIZED MEDICINE

Record, 1961

THE BLUE BOOK OF THE JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY

1961

A COMPROMISE SOLUTION IN SOUTH VIETNAM

Undersecretary of State George Ball, memo to President Johnson, 1965

ARE YOU MAKING YOUR CHILDREN PAY FOR YOUR WEIGHT PROBLEM

Advertisement, 1965

CRIME TV AD

Nixon campaign, 1968

ROD'S PERIOD 8 LESSONS

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