Forty years ago today, the Reverand Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, TN.
Today I'd like to connect our reading of The Bluest Eye to the idea of Dreams, using several Langston Hughes poems and Martin Luther King, Jr.'s historic speech as our connection points.
Morrison's novel is set between the Harlem Renaissance (1920s, Hughes) and the Civil Rights Movement (1960s, King), but was written after the Civil Rights Movement. How does Morrison's novel connect to these important movements in African American Art and History?
Here are some links:
MLK's "I Have a Dream" Speech:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbUtL_0vAJk
Langston Hughes' Poetry:
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/83
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