Trace the concerns facing African-Americans in the post-Civil War South between 1877 and 1900
Prepare typed (double-spaced) essay responses for two of the following four prompts. You may refer to your class lecture summaries and class textbooks while preparing your essays, but make sure to appropriately cite any quotations and/or paraphrases in parenthesis at the end of the line in which one occurs(for example Industrialization and its Effects Lecture Summary Part Two, p. 3 or For the Record, p. 27). Only use sources from uploads.
Trace the concerns facing African-Americans in the post-Civil War South between 1877 and 1900. Why did the “New South” become a difficult place for African-Americans to live after Reconstruction ended? How did African-American leaders, such as Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Dubois, and John Hope, address the role of African-Americans in United States society?Look specifically at Booker T. Washington’s “Atlanta Compromise” speech and John Hope’s “Critique of the Atlanta Compromise” and show how differences in language, audience, and approach characterize each work. What principles seemed most important to each man and how did each present his vision and defend it?
