African Americans

Discuss (answer) the questions posed in four essays. ESSAY #1: “Relationships of Dependency” In 500-1,000 words, discuss “relationships of dependency.” Address what this term means and how it applied to African Americans’ ability to achieve economic independence. What options were available to African Americans in southern cities and rural areas? How did social inequality contribute to relationships of dependency? How were those relationships maintained during the Jim Crow era? What was the economic relationship of those unequal relationships? Use specific individuals and/or families and their circumstances from the documentary as examples to illustrate your discussion. ESSAY #2 – African American Education In 500-1,000 words, discuss school life for African Americans in the South during the late-1800s to the early 1900s. What was the purpose of education, according to differing philosophies and models, and who were their proponents? What is the difference between “vocational” and “cultural schooling”? What were the advantages/disadvantages of each? Did white Southerners prefer one over the other? Why? How difficult was it to find funding to keep African American schools operating? What did the community and/or individuals do to acquire the necessary funds? Use specific individuals and/or families and their circumstances from the documentary as examples to illustrate your discussion. ESSAY #3 – Segregation in the Post-Reconstruction South In 500-1,000 words, discuss why some African Americans believed that their best chances for achieving economic and personal security lay in separating themselves from the post-Reconstruction South. Why did whites demand that segregation be legalized during the 1880s? Was violence used to keep African Americans from leaving the South? How was political violence used to attack African American political power? How did the Southern legal system respond to white violence? What was Frederick Douglass’s opinion about African Americans migrating from the South? Did Southern violence motivate African Americans to create separate communities? What steps were involved in establishing these communities? How did the emergence of a new African American middle class challenge white supremacy? How did white communities respond to the creation of self-supporting African American communities? Use specific communities, individuals and/or families and their circumstances from the documentary as examples to illustrate your discussion. ESSAY #4 – The Institution of Lynching In 500-1,000 words, discuss why increased numbers of African Americans were lynched. What is the difference between lynching and murder? How were lynchings typically documented? How did the press cover lynchings? Ida B. Wells' pamphlet LYNCH LAW IN GEORGIA used the reporting of Atlanta newspapers which covered a series of lynchings in Georgia. Read the pamphlet: Lynch Law in Georgia by Ida B. Wells: text on website (Links to an external site.) ( http://hierographics.tripod.com/IdaBWells-Barnett/LynchLawinGeorgia.html ) (Links to an external site.) or downloadable PDF of original text as a pamphlet (Links to an external site.). ( 
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