Monday, October 28, 2019

Oct. 30-31

EQ:
1. What were the competing visions for racial equality offered by Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois?
2. How did the Jim Crow era (1880-1964) impact the lives of African Americans?

CW:
I. finish notes from previous class:
Booker T. Washington and DuBois ppt
The Souls of Black Folk--"double consciousness"
video clip: double consciousness
Trayvon Martin case
video clip--President Obama speaks out on the Trayvon Martin case
otherness" in America explored
video clips:
blacks and whites speak about race in America
racial stereotyping in America 

II. notes: Jim Crow Era-racial separation and racial inequality
Jim Crow docs--HELPFUL FOR ESSAY #2!
Plessy decision (video clip from Gates DVD)
III. Voting disfranchisement in the Jim Crow era:
poll taxes; white primary; grandfather clause; literacy test
video clips:
felons lose the right to vote in Florida
new restrictions on felony voting rights in Florida 
2016 presidential election results in Florida
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IV. video clip: convict leasing in the South
V. LYNCHINGS-RACIAL TERROR
informal rules between whites and blacks in the US
video clips from Gates DVD-lynching in the South:
racial terror against African Americans--lynching
Ida Wells speaks out against lynching
map of lynchings across the South
video clip:
lynching memorial in Abbeville, SC
if time:
video clip: racist memorabilia
Coon Chicken Inn--Portland
history of blackface in America

HW:
Notes quiz next class on BTW/Du Bois notes and the Jim Crow notes
 
 

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