Write a critical analysis to the weekly discussion board question below. Each discussion question is developed from the selected readings for the week. Your response should be a minimum of 250 words.

Discussion Prompt: Please answer the following four questions:

1. What are some tactics that were used to keep Black voters disenfranchised or to make their vote less effective? (Ch. 12)

2. According to historian Rayford Logan, the post-Reconstruction era was "the nadir of America race relations." Who were some of the key leaders of this era and how did they respond? (Ch.13)

3. What were some of the major disappointments for African Americans during the Wilson administration? (Ch.14)

4. Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune once said "We have fought to preserve one nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Yes, we have fought for America with all her imperfections, not so much for what she is, but for what we know she can be." Historically (other than those who fought in World War I) who are some other African Americans whose life work also expressed these same sentiments?