Read “Do Not Give Way to Evil” the short introduction to Lisa Kahane’s Photography Book (distributed in class and attached here)
Read “Carter Tours Bronx Ruins,” read the explanation of this primary source document.(distributed in class and attached here).
Read “How Fire Defined the Bronx and Us,” by David Gonzalez in the New York Times. Link here and you also have access to a free New York Times account
TYPE a one page response paper using these three pieces and answer the following questions:
What is the “through line” or common theme in these three written pieces? Develop a theme around that issue which will include answering the following two
questions
Why did President Carter visit the South Bronx?
Why was the South Bronx devastated in the 1970s?