Question

historical analysis: president kennedys civil rights addre guided annotation as you read the excerpt below, use these structured supports: underline key events, circle unknown vocabulary words, and place a question mark (?) next to parts that are confusing or surprising. \good evening my fellow citizens: this afternoon, following a series of threats and defiant statements, national guardsmen were sent to the university of alabama. their presence was required to carry out the order of the u.s. district court of the northern district of alabama. that order called for the admission of two clearly qualified young alabama residents who happened to have been born black. i hope that every american will stop and examine his conscience about this matter. the heart of the question is whether all americans are to be given equal rights and equal opportunities. whether we are going to treat our fellow americans as we want to be treated. if a white man, because his skin is black, cannot eat lunch in a restaurant open to the public, if he cannot send his children to the best public school available, if he cannot vote for the public officials who represent him... then who among us would be content to have his color changed and stand in his place? one hundred years of delay have passed since president lincoln freed the slaves, yet their heirs, their grandsons, are not fully free. they are not yet freed from the bonds of injustice.\ deliberate practice: checking the facts 1. president kennedy sent national guardsmen to the university of ____________ to enforce a court order. 2. kennedy states that __________ years have passed since president lincoln freed the slaves. 3. the core issue of the speech is whether all americans should have equal ____________ and opportunities. argumentation & reasoning frames 1. based on the text, why does kennedy challenge the audience to imagine having their skin color changed? kennedy asks the audience to imagine this because... 2. what evidence does kennedy provide to show that the \grandsons\ of former slaves are still not fully free? according to the text, they are not fully free because...

Explanation:

For the "Checking the Facts" section, answers are directly pulled from the text excerpt. For the "Argumentation & Reasoning Frames" section, answers are derived from analyzing the rhetorical purpose and explicit evidence in the speech.

Answer:

Deliberate Practice: Checking the Facts

1. Alabama
2. 100 (one hundred)
3. rights

Argumentation & Reasoning Frames

1. he wants white Americans to empathize with the daily injustices Black Americans face, by putting themselves in the position of experiencing discrimination based on skin color.
2. Black Americans still cannot eat in public restaurants, attend the best public schools, or vote for officials who represent them, despite Lincoln freeing the slaves a century prior.