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A Negro Look At The World, Avery Mason Guest

Honors Papers

The demand for equal rights now among the American Negro population has sparked wide-spread discussion about the causes of the movement. Different authors and leaders, through a wide-ranging assortment of sometimes contradictory and sometimes interlocking reasons, have attempted to explain why the movement arose and why it has kept going. Approaches range from the mystical explanation of Martin Luther King, Jr. (in the final analysis God is causing the Negro to demand equal rights at the present time) to the coldly rational approaches of many social scientists who see the current Negro unrest as part of a typical case history …