Assignment #16

ACIE American History - Cambridge International Examinations

Mr. Anthony Perno and Mr. Victor Wisniski – American Senior High School – 2009/2010 School Year

Syllabus Excerpt: IV Civil Rights, 1895-1968

. . . The position of African-Americans in 1900, the contrasting strategies of Booker T Washington and W E B du Bois, the founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP). . . . Revival of the Ku Klux Klan and lynching in the 1920s. . . .

· Reading Assignment: America, Past and Present, Chapter #16, The Agony of Reconstruction, “Reunion and the New South,” pages 471-475 [a repeat reading]

· Reading Assignment: Law and Society, Plessy v. Ferguson, “The Shaping of Jim Crow,” pages 567-570

· Reading Assignment: America, Past and Present, Chapter #22, The Progressive Era, “The Niagara Movement and the NAACP, pages 635-639 [a repeat reading]

· Reading Assignment: Feature Essay: “African American Buisiness Pioneer,” pages 680-681

· Reading Assignment: Feature Essay: “Radical Redempstion and Black Nationalism,” pages 730-731

· Reading Assignment: America, Past and Present, Chapter #25, Transition to Modern America, ‘The Ku Klux Klan,’ pages 735-736 [a repeat reading]

· Assignment: Using the above reading assignment, the student will prepare to answer the following essay questions. (One question will be chosen randomly the day of the exam.) The essay should encompass all pertinent syllabus topics.

· Essay Questions:

1. How was it possible, in spite of constitutional protection, for the Southern States to deny basic civil rights to African-Americans from 1895 to 1964?

2. How different were the philosophies and policies of Booker T. Washington and W. E. du Bois on how best to attain full emancipation for Afro-Americans?

3. Account for the dramatic rise and fall of the revived Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s.