Transcript AIDS: A WORLD

AIDS: A Worldwide Plague
Essential Questions
• What causes AIDS?
• How is AIDS transmitted?
• Why has AIDS been viewed differently than
other epidemics?
• What accounts for the different ways in which
countries have responded to this disease?
• Do the wealthier countries of the world have an an
obligation to help poorer countries deal with AIDS?
Bayard
Rustin
and the
Civil Rights Movement
“The principal factors
which influenced my
life are: nonviolent tactics;
constitutional means;
democratic procedures;
respect for human
personality; a belief that
all people are one.”
—Bayard Rustin
Essential Questions
• How did ideas about the place of African Americans
in American society change between Reconstruction
and the 1950s and 1960s?
• How did Bayard Rustin’s homosexuality influence his
effectiveness as a civil rights activist?
• How successful was nonviolence as a strategy in the
civil rights movement?
• Evaluate Rustin’s statement that nonviolence had to
be not just a strategy, but an ideology.
Handicapped or
Handicapable?
Essential Questions
• How do people generally feel about those with
physical and mental differences?
• How have the handicapped been treated in
previous centuries?
• Why and how have past attitudes toward the
handicapped changed?
• How have the actions of individuals affected changes
in the way handicapped people are viewed?
Harvey Milk
and the
Gay Liberation Movement
“All men are created equal.
No matter how hard you try,
you can never erase those words.”
—Harvey Milk
Essential Questions
• What are some similarities and differences between
the Gay Liberation movement and other liberation
movements of the 1960s and 1970s?
• How have ideas about homosexuals changed over
the last century?
• Which do you think is a more effective method
of achieving social goals: direct action (protests,
boycotts, etc.) or political involvement?
Pink
Triangles
The Nazi Persecutions
of Homosexuals
Essential Questions
• Why was Weimar culture tolerant of homosexuals?
• What historical events led to the rise of the Nazis
to power?
• What parts of Nazi ideology made them particularly
repressive towards homosexual men?
• How were homosexuals treated compared to other
persecuted groups?