"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.
Can you solve the mystery of the Gordon Parks photo?
Given the stakes, why not give it a try? Start with this NPR article. Click the image below for the original challenge put out by the New York Times:
And click here to read Maurice Berger's original article about the 70 "missing" photos from Gordon Parks' "Segregation Series".
And finally, here is an excerpt from my conversation with Google's AI bot.
MLK answers, "What is it about the Negro...?"
Consider his answer in light of your Reconstruction Rebooted plans...
Group Project Final Assessment
Please wait until you have presented to respond. Click image below to submit:
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: