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Question Question 1.) When and where did civil rights activism against segregation begin? How were women integral to the civil rights movement in the 19th century?

Question 2.) Why is the era between 1890-1920 considered the "nadir" of US racial relationships?

Question 3.) Discuss the extensiveness of segregation in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Give examples of how racial separation beyond restrooms, drinking fountains, and other familiar examples.

Question 4.) What is the significance of Wilmington, North Carolina (1898) and Tulsa, Oklahoma (1921)?

Question 5.) How did Black intellectuals and activists resist "redemption? Who were some of the most important voices in resisting white supremacy before the 1920s?

Question 6.) What is the "Great Debate"? What positions did Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois take on Black advancement, uplift, and the fight for first-class citizenship?

Question 7.) How did the World's Fair of 1900 in Paris become a space for Black excellence?

Question 8.) In what ways did the first Hollywood blockbuster The Birth of a Nation create lasting consequences for racial relationships in the US?

Question 9.) How significant was the Great Migration to advancing Black politics?

Question 10.) Discuss the legacy of Mildred Rutherford and whether we can continue to see her legacy in 21st century US education.

Question 11.) Explain the differences between the first and second versions of the Ku Klux Klan.

Question 12.) In what ways did the Harlem Renaissance-sometimes only regarded as an artistic movement-spur a sea change in Black political and social thought?

Question 13.) How was Marcus Garvey something of a game changer in Black political thought?

Question 14.) How did poetry and prose become a political weapon in the hands of writers like Zora Neale Hurston, Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Gwendolyn Brooks, et al? Use examples of poems that carried political and social weight.

Question 15.) According to Dr. Robin G. Kelley, how was the Black Left radicalized and how did they get organized in the 1930s?

Question 16.) What is the connection between Plessy v. Ferguson and the rise of the Nazi Party in Germany?

Lift Every Voice Questions

Question 17.) What is the thesis of Lift Every Voice: the NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement? Why Dr. Patricia Sullivan (the University of South Carolina) write this work?

Question 18.) According to Sullivan's research, what was the NAACP's primary goal? Did that goal evolve over time?

Question 19.) In what ways did personality conflicts affect the first years of the NAACP? How did the organization shift to survive such conflicts?

Question 20.) In what ways did US presidents listen to the NAACP but fail to act on NAACP findings in the first half of the 20th century?

Question 21.) How was World War II a turning point for racial politics, Black Americans, the NAACP, and to an extent, white Americans?

Question 22.) What is the significance of Charles Hamilton Houston? How did he guide the NAACP to Brown v. Board (1954)? In what ways was his leadership and expertise transformative to the Supreme Court, to segregation, and to the trajectory of the movement overall?

Question 23.) Compare Kathryn Magnolia Johnson and Ella Baker's beliefs in field work and local organizing.

Question 24.) Was/Is the NAACP a problematic organization? Be specific in your critique.

Question 25.) In what ways has the NAACP succeeded as an organization?