Question 1: How did you feel during the lunch counter sit-in simulation? Did you make it all the way through, or did you have to stop early? If you went through as much training as the non-violent activists, do you think you could have done what they did? Why or why not?

Question 2: In Martin Luther King Jr.’s final speech, “I’ve Been to the Mountain Top,” given the night before he was assassinated, he said he had “been to the mountain top” and seen “the Promised Land.” He meant that a country with much greater social and economic equality among peoples of all races was on the horizon. Suffering and sacrifice in the struggle for freedom and dignity was a theme throughout "Rolls Down Like Water: The American Civil Rights Movement." Do you think all the suffering and sacrifice were worthwhile? Has something close to King’s Promised Land come into being? Are we closer to it—has there been real progress—because of the civil rights movement he and others led, and for which so many sacrificed, suffered, and even died? Or was it all in vain? Explain.