Notes:
Instructions: Read your assigned section and take some basic notes. You may use these notes in discussing your section. The Huey Long Website ( www.hueylong.com
) will be on the board behind you if you wish to reference pictures. YOU MAY NOT READ FROM THE SCREEN!
You must show a basic understanding of your section and how it fits in with the broader legacy and career goals of Huey Long. You must also discuss any similarities or differences you see between characters and events in All The King’s Men and the material assigned in the section.
Grading: You will be graded on your understanding of the material and insight into the novel as well as the quality of your notes and responses to questions in the “Perspectives” and “Legacy” sections on the next page.
Your Assigned Section:

In addition to the assigned presentation section above, it is required that you read the following sections and answer the questions below relating to each:
Perspectives: All three sections (Overview, Politics of Racism, Share Your Stories)
1.
How did people feel about Huey Long? Explain.
2.
Discuss the racial climate of Louisiana in the 1920s and 1930s and explain what made
Huey Long different from other politicians of the era.
3.
What did Long’s programs help secure for African Americans in Louisiana?
4.
How did Long’s opponents try to damage him politically?
5.
To what extent did
All The King’s Men
discuss African Americans or their issues?
6.
How did Long respond to criticism from the head of the Klu Klux Klan?
7.
What might account for Long’s lack of hatred or discrimination for African Americans?
8.
What do you notice after reading the “Share Your Stories” section about the way Long is discussed? Is this true throughout other portions of the website?

9.
To what extent do you like or dislike Huey Long and why?
10.
Why do you think he was so controversial and feared at the time, not just in Louisiana but throughout the United States?
Legacy: All three sections (Overview, Louisiana After Long, A New Louisiana)
11.
What programs did Huey Long help create in Louisiana which still exist today?
12.
What happened after Long’s assassination in Louisiana politics?
13.
What character in
All The King’s Men
may mirror O.K. Allen?
14.
What was Long’s nickname? What became Willie Stark’s nickname in All The King’s
Men ?
15.
What reason does the website give for the state’s slide into corruption and graft?
16.
How did Long use his power and influence to gain federal money for Louisiana in the
“”Second Louisiana Purchase”?