Reference no: EM133669051 , Length: 5 Pages
Assignment:
History of Chicago
Essay 1
Purpose: Building off lessons learned through Essay 1 and using skills developed in weekly primary source analyses, write an essay that connects your analysis of 20th Chicago sources to your knowledge of the era based on course content. Additionally, this final essay provides an opportunity to compare and contrast Chicago history from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and show change over time. Demonstrate your abilities in historical inquiry by composing a written work that expresses historical knowledge, historical skills, and historical thinking.
Primary Sources: Please see the "Essay 2 Primary Sources" PDF, which includes two flyers from the 1963 Freedom Day Boycott in Chicago.
Prompt: How do the Freedom Day Boycott flyers exemplify the causes and tactics of Black Civil Rights activism in twentieth-century Chicago? How does Black Civil Rights activism in twentieth-century Chicago compare and contrast with nineteenth-century industrial protests like the Pullman Strike?
Considerations: This prompt asks you to do three things:
1) Analyze the primary sources. As you prepare to write, ask yourself:
a. Who created the flyers? Who are the audiences for the flyers?
b. What is the main message of the flyers? What are protestors boycotting, and why? What is the goal of the boycott?
2) Connect the primary source to your broader knowledge of Black Civil Rights activism in twentieth-century Chicago. As you prepare to write, ask yourself:
a. What kinds of discrimination did Black Chicagoans face in twentieth century Chicago? What were the causes of discrimination?
b. What were other examples of Civil Rights activism in twentieth-century Chicago, both before and after the Freedom Day Boycott? How were they similar or different from the Freedom Day Boycott?
c. Was the boycott successful? Why or why not? Were other similar Civil Rights actions successful? Why or why not?
3) Compare and contrast Black Civil Rights activism like the Freedom Day Boycott with nineteenth-century industrial protests like the Pullman Strike. This is an opportunity to build off what you wrote for Essay 1. You are welcome to re-use some of your writing from Essay 1, provided that you incorporate feedback from Dr. Boyle and fully integrate your writing into the framework and argument of Essay 2. As you prepare to revise and write, ask yourself:
a. What are the similarities between industrial strikes in nineteenth-century Chicago and Black Civil Rights activism in twentieth-century Chicago? How do you account for those similarities?
b. What are the differences between industrial strikes in nineteenth-century Chicago and Black Civil Rights activism in twentieth-century Chicago? How do you account for those differences?
c. How has protest in Chicago changed over time?
Format:
Your essay should be 4 to 5 pages in length, double-spaced, with 1-inch margins and using Times New Roman size 12 font.History of Chicago
Essay 2
Structure:
- The first paragraph in your essay should include a very clear, one-sentence response to the prompt that provides a roadmap for the rest of the essay. This is your thesis statement.
- The body of the paper should consist of paragraphs that clearly support your thesis statement. Each paragraph should have one unified idea that is supported by specific evidence from the primary source, class lecture notes, and readings.