Assignemnt: Rise and Fall of Jim Crow

Watch "The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow: Promises Betrayed, episode 1" and answer the following questions.

Discussion Questions

1. How did racial apartheid affect Black people socially, economically, and psychologically?

2. How did families racially socialize their children to protect them from the psychological effects of racism?

3. Although the Civil War decisively ended slavery, what evidence suggests that the ideology supporting the racially based institution did not end?

4. Discuss coping mechanisms blacks devised to circumvent racial oppression and lack of opportunities.

5. Why were African Americans both shocked and saddened by the requests made by Booker T. Washington in the Atlanta Compromise?

6. Was Isaiah Montgomery right about his assessment that the United States was a white man's government and that we should let them run it? Explain.