Assignment: Perspectives on African Americans
Directions: write two or more paragraphs responses (note: a minimum of three sentences in a paragraph). In your response, be sure to refer to specific concepts/constructs from the readings, video/film and lecture notes to support your answer. Submit your completed examination to the drop box-"Examinations" via D2L Brightspace
1. What were the social, political and economic gains for African Americans during the Reconstruction Period (1865-1877) included the ratification of the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. What are the main provisions of the following Amendments to the U.S. Constitution? (5 points)
1) 13th Amendment ratified in 1865:
2) 14th Amendment ratified in 1868:
3) 15th Amendment ratified in 1870:
2. The second Morrill Land-Grant Act of 1890, which specified that states using federal land-grant funds must either make their schools open to both blacks and whites or allocate money for segregated black colleges to serve as an alternative to white schools. In this context, sixteen exclusively black institutions received 1890 land-grant funds-leading to the creation of Historically Black colleges/universities.
1) Name two historically black colleges/universities.
3. The Jim Crow Period (1876-1954)
1) The term "Jim Crow" refers to laws designed to:
2) Which Supreme Court case sanctioned "separate but equal" legalized (de jure) segregation?
3) What are Black Codes?
4. Slavery by another name (video/film) use its content and lecture notes to briefly define the following concepts/social constructs:
1) Convict leasing
2) Peonage
3) Sharecropping
4) Vagrancy statutes (laws made by a state legislative body)
• Dierenfield, Bruce J. & John White. (2012). A History of African-American Leadership, 3rd Edition, Pearson Publication
5. Compare (similarities) and contrast (differences) the visions or strategies for African Americans of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois.
6. In what ways are the strategies of Martin L. King, Jr. and Malcolm X different?
7. Read Part 7: African-American Women: Heroines & Trailblazers
Answer the question that is on the aforementioned book readings:
1) Choose one of the following African-American Women: Heroines & Trailblazers and briefly write about their leadership contributions: 1) Harriet Tubman, 2) Ida B. Wells, 3) Mary McLeod Bethune, 4) Fannie Lou Hamer, 5) Condoleezza Rice and 6) Oprah Winfrey.
8. Which Supreme Court case overturned the "separate but equal" doctrine?
9. What is the difference between de jure segregation and de facto segregation?
10. Name two or more events which ignited the modern civil rights movement:
11. What are the main provisions of the following Civil Rights Acts?
1) Civil Rights Act of 1964.
2) Civil Rights Act of 1965.