HIST 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: I Am Not Your Negro, Medgar Evers, Lorraine Hansberry
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Inspired by james baldwin book which was never finished. A radical narration about race in america, using the baldwins original words. The film draws upon baldwin"s notes on the lives and assassinations of medgar evers, Black panthers: baldwin did not believe all black people were evil. Bobby kennedy- was wanted to assist little negro girl to school, he said it was meaning. Medgar evers- shot to death, part of naacp. My ancestors had no desire to come to the united states. Although whites have done evil errors blacks forgive them - black man jumping off train for white man. "not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed if it is not faced. Critic of american history, american history essayist. 30 pages of project baldwin was working on. Question or reflect on it: the west has no moral authority , power ultimately as a weapon is weaker than those who do not have it -james baldwin.
