Wednesday

Adv. US History
Focus:
Great Depression

CW:
Scottsboro Boys

HW:
Text pp. 714-18; 722-27
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Honors US History
Focus:
The Gilded Age

CW:
notes: The Racial Politics of Jim Crow:
the role of the federal gov't in perpetuating Jim Crow:
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) video clip (47:24-conclusion)
harsh realities of the Jim Crow South:
Jim Crow laws
the disenfranchisement of African Americans: Louisiana literacy test; poll taxes; grandfather clause
new black leadership: Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois
reading: Atlanta Compromise Address 1895 and DuBois reading
black-white relations; lynching discussion and video clip
video clip: Tulsa Race Riot--1921
video clip: racist imagery of Jim Crow

HW:
STUDY
ACT REGISTRATION IS TOMORROW