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Assignment: Listed below are the questions, resource links and attached is the rubric, questions and instructions. This is a 4 page essay and must have 4 references. The main 2 resources are the book (The Warmth of Other Suns) and ppt. from

Higginbotham, Evelyn. From Slavery to Freedom. McGraw-Hill Education, 2010 and you will need to find 2 additional.

Introduction

• Define the Great Migration.

• What is your thesis or focus?

• What central lesson did you draw from your research/investigations? Entice your reader/audience (think beyond just Dr. Giddings reading your paper!) into your paper with a summary of your findings/discoveries.

• Introduce Wilkerson's "character(s)" (Robert Joseph Pershing Foster & George Swanson Starling) by their full names.

• Why was this character(s) selected.

• Summarize what you learned/discovered.

Body

• What were the problems identified by the migrants?

• What facts/stories from the book support your paper's thesis?

• What were the specific "push" and "pull" or motivating factors responsible for the problem which caused the move/migration to occur?

• Who moved; who remained behind and why; did anyone move headfirst?

• What familial connections remain in the south/place of origin?

• What information gathered surprised you; had you any related documents which helped to tell or describe the problem/issues; was the problem or the push factors more or less of the motivation for the move?

• What were the consequences of the migration - were the problems resolved (i.e, was life better in the new location)?

• In what ways was the Great Migration similar or dissimilar to the more unpopular Emigration movements in antebellum (pre-Civil War) period?

• What are some comparisons between the personal stories you discovered (read about) and those events/stories presented about the Great Migration; - for example, what if any role did the Black Press play in the individual's decision to move/migrate?

• How different do you imagine your (Wilkerson's characters') life would have been, were it not for the migration?

• What is your analysis of whether the identified problem was resolved by the migration/move ...?

Conclusions

• Overall value of this project; what is your analysis/assessment of the problem faced by your character and did they make the right move to resolve same?

• Did you accomplished our targeted learning outcome; and what would you change to improve this assignment as a learning tool?