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Make sure you answer each questions thoroughly, providing evidence to support your answer, demonstrating both depth and breath of knowledge. Please understand a couple sentence response WILL NOT be sufficient.
Compare and contrast the successes and failures of Reconstruction. Be specific.
Discuss Black migration during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Where did they go? What did they expect to find and what reality did they find?
Discuss Booker T. Washington's views on education and economic advancement. Would you consider his philosophy realistic? What was the reaction of other Blacks to his philosophy?
Compare the views of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois. How were their ideas the product of their background, education, and times? What limitations do you see in each man's view of how to advance African-Americans? Who ultimately prevailed?
Discuss the strategy and tactics of the NAACP leading to the Brown decision. How did that case happen? How important was that case? What did it lead to? What were the successes and failures of the decision?
What types of religious movements emerged in the 1930s and 1940s for Blacks. Why did they emerge when they did? What does this tell you about the nature of religion and its importance in America and African-American society?
Discuss Black participation in American wars. Is there a common goal Blacks sought in exchange for their participation? Explain.