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Write in your owns word, article from New York Times, "Emmett Till and Tamir Rice, Sons of the Great Migration" by Isabel Wilkerson. Answers all of the questions 1-10 from the article:
1. What does the phrase “night rides and hanging trees” (1) refer to?
2. Why does Wilkerson refer to black Americans as “refugees” who “seek asylum” in their “own country” (1)?
3. Wilkerson states, “Tamir Rice would become to this century what Emmett Till was to the last”(2). What does she mean by this statement?
4. How does Eric Foner define “Second Redemption” (2)? Why is our era described as a “Second Redemption” (2)?
5. Historian Rayford Logan coins the phrase “Nadir”(2). Define what Logan means by this.
6. Explain both the idea of "The Nadir" and "The Second Redemption" (2). Which of these two terms best describes where we are in contemporary society? Explain your answer fully.
7. Why does Wilkerson believe that in present day we are poised for a second Nadir?
8. Define the word "metronome" (2). What is Wilkerson trying to convey in using this word?
9. What does Eric Foner mean when he states there is “an exhaustion with black protest” (3)? Why is this the case?
10. Wilkerson writes, "for all its changes, the country remains in a similar place, a caste system based on what people look like" (3). Analyze this quote. Please explain your answer fully.