Worksheet: "No Easy Walk"--Sociology 4949

1. Why did the SCLC decide to go into Albany Georgia?

2. What was the result?

3. How did the "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" come to be written?

4. Describe the movement's struggle to remain nonviolent in Birmingham? Why was that so important?

5. Who else in the video, besides Martin Luther King, seems to fit Max Weber's model of charismatic leadership? Explain the model and how it fits.

Group Project: "No Easy Walk"--Sociology 4949

1. Why did the civil rights movement fail in its Albany campaign?

2. In Albany, we see the beginnings of a conflict between SNCC (the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) and the SCLC (the Southern Christian Leadership Conference). Describe that conflict. Who do you think was right?

3. What made the civil rights movement in Birmingham a success? What are the lessons of Birmingham for theorists trying to understand social movements?

4. How and why did the federal government finally get committed to civil rights legislation?