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Click here to watch the video, if you missed class.
Ultimate Causes of the Civil Rights Movement: AWAKENINGS
In order to better understand the ultimate factors (long-term causes) leading to civil rights, please watch the first episode of the legendary documentary, Eyes on the Prize and fill out the guide below.
Gordon Parks, Segregation Series
"Agin'st the Law"??
Your assignment: choose two actions in the song lyrics that are "agin'st the law" and explain how they are technically or actually illegal in the Jim Crow South. Some of these may constitute violating folkways, mores, or taboos (norms) rather than the breaking a written piece of legislation.
Group Project Final Assessment
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Reconstruction -- a podcast, a video, and possible primary (and secondary) sources
Here's an interview with Eric Foner, who has a complicated view of the assessment of the Reconstruction era. The second half of the podcast has some key information and critiques of the Reconstruction Amendments (13, 14, 15) that should help you decide how to proceed in your plans. (If you click on the link above, you should also see a transcript which might be faster in finding what you need.)
The History Channel has a great feature on the 15th Amendment and the subsequent Voting Rights Act of 1965.
This PDF (below ) has a set of primary and secondary sources which can be used in your presentation:
Data
source: University of Virginia Geospatial and Statistical Data Center. United
States Historical Census Data Browser.
Finally, here is a relevant example on how two historians THOROUGHLY analyze a primary source (h/t to Kevin Levin). This well-designed presentation features a conversation between Dr. Kimberly Kutz Elliott and Dr. Beth Harris: