AFRICAN AMERICAN POLITICS. 1880-1920
Discipline: History
Type of service: Term Paper
Spacing: Double spacing
Paper format: APA
Number of pages: 7 pages
Number of sources: 3 sources
Paper details:
Please show how Segregation shaped the lives of African Americans during the time frame 1880- 1920 Please examine all facets of society under segregation and Jim Crow to support your argument.
OUTLINE SEGREAGTION 1888-1920
Intro: Segregation, what is it?
Freedom- 13th, 14th and 15th Amendment
Southern Response? Fear, Intimidation and the reinvention of Slavery
Social Effects:
Continued Racism
Separation of the races-whites only-colored only
Mental Slavery-Lynching
Rise of the KKK-Fear and Intimidation
Economics: See Documentary. Slavery by Another Name.
Sharecropping. Industrial Age, wealth from the exploitation of African Americans
Continued Poverty in Black Communities
Prison Gangs, slavery by another name
Use Statistics to support your work.
Political Effects:
Black Codes and the response to freedom
Jim Crow Laws
Plessy v Ferguson 1898- One drop rule, Separate but Equal
Political Disfranchisement. Poll taxes, Test, Jelly Bean Test etc.
Cultural Effects
Rise of the independent Black Church
Family Life-Names, Marriage, Identity etc.
Music-Blues and Jazz
Migration up north and the spreading of black culture
Sports
NAACP
Conclusion– Impact of freedom and its responses by the southern states
5 Sources.
AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY. HIST 317 FIRST EXAM.
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Footnotes should be used to cite relevant quotes. Any plagiarism would result in an F grade.
Your bibliography should include a number of books used a reference for your research. The books must be attached on a separate page at the end of the paper. It should look like this. Balkaran, Stephen. (1998) The Political Economy of American Politics. Preager Press, Westport, CT.
This exam will constitute 35% of your grade.
Any questions please feel free to email me at SBalkaran@Bridgeport.Edu
QUESTION. AFRICAN AMERICAN POLITICS. 1880-1920
During the last two (2) weeks we have been discussing African American Politics (Laws, Rights and Legislation) Jim Crow and Segregation the Shaping of America and African Americans lives.
Question: Please show how Segregation shaped the lives of African Americans during the time frame 1880- 1920 Please examine all facets of society under segregation and Jim Crow to support your argument.
