Write a well-developed essay responding to one of the following documents

Make sure you clearly articulate the following: What is the author’s main thesis? What is the historical context for the speech? What evidence does the speaker provide to support their argument? What is the historical significance of the ideas and arguments presented in the speech?

Any additional sources must be cited within the text and listed in a bibliography at the end of the essay.

Choice of topics:
-President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Farewell Address

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/ike.htm

-Students for a Democratic Society; Port Huron Statement

http://coursesa.matrix.msu.edu/~hst306/documents/huron.html

-Martin Luther King Jr.’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail

http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html

-Fannie Lou Hamer, 1964

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/fannielouhamercredentialscom

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-Gloria Steinem, Living the Revolution Speech

Steinem, “Living the Revolution,” Speech Text

(Don’t forget the bibliography and make it as good as possible as there will be no time for me to ask for a revision. Thanks a bunch!)