History Assignment – Summariz

Read: Takin’: pages 109-119, 126-129, 131-136; read the following documents:

Malcolm X, The Ballot or the Bullet
The Watts Riots: The McCone Commission Reports on Watts, Violence in the City–An End or a Beginning? and Paul Bullock, Watts: The Aftermath
Larry Neal, Black Art and Black Liberation
The Black Panther Platform: “What We Want, What We Believe”
Deborah Johnson and Flint Taylor, Police and the Panthers

Write: Assignment must be typed, double-spaced, with your name at the top

Write a paragraph that summarizes the experience of Henry and the narrator in the italicized passage on pages 116-117 in Takin’ It to the Streets. Use NO QUOTATIONS. Write your paragraph entirely in your own words. Write a paragraph of at least four sentences. Use a topic sentence if one seems appropriate. But, otherwise, this one time, you can write a paragraph that has no topic sentence.

PLEASE USE YOUR OWN WORD AND NO QUOTATIONS