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Week 1: How did the status of African Americans change during the period from 1890 to 1920?
Feb. 25: Reflection
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Feb. 25-27: What are Civil Rights?
What does it mean to be American? Is there a standard? What holds together a society and culture? How does politics, religion, race, gender, class, and economics have to do with it? Understanding the Civil Rights movement is a very complex topic. Making it even more important to explore.
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Pick one of the four OpEds to read and discuss
Frank P. Barajas is a professor of history at California State University Channel Islands and the author of Curious Unions: Mexican American Workers and Resistance in Oxnard, California, 1898-1961.
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Victoria L. Jackson is a sports historian and lecturer of history in the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies at Arizona State University. Jackson writes and speaks about the intersection of sport and society, exploring how the games we play (and watch) tell us much about the communities – local, national, and global – in which we live.
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Julian Lim is an assistant professor of history in the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies at Arizona State University, Tempe. She works on immigration and the U.S.-Mexico border region, and will be releasing a book through the University of North Carolina Press later this year.
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John Paul Catungal, Instructor, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (Tenure-Track) The Social Justice Institute (GRSJ); Faculty Associate Geography and Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies, at the University of British Columbia for The Conversation on Nov. 27.
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Feb. 28 - Mar. 1: What was the status of African Americans by 1890? What were the challenges of living under Jim Crow laws?
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Week 2: How did African American leaders and pressure groups fight for change before 1945?
Mar. 4-6: What strategy did Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois have for improving the social and economic conditions of African Americans?
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Mar. 7-8: How did the court case Plessy vs. Ferguson in 1896 change the status of African Americans in the United States?
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Mar. 7-8: Abstract
Please submit your one-page abstract (200-250 words).
For some of you, writing an abstract is new. Here are some pointers. First, an abstract is a short explanation of what your longer piece is about. Think of it as a preview of a film. You want to say what the article is about, what sources you are drawing on, and what conversation you are joining. A good example can be found in "Cinema Journal," which is in the ASU Library website (there are other examples, but this one was sitting on my coffee table this morning).
Abstract Example: The first article, "Star-Struck: The Invention of the Movie Girl Fan" by Diana Anselmo-Sequeira will suffice as an example:
This article examines questions of agency, identity, and fan-industry collaboration underpinning the fabrication of an exclusively feminine personification of excessive film fandom. Dubbed “the screen-struck girl,” this white, adolescent figure was presented in American fan magazines and popular newspapers of the 1910s as a pathological consumer and a self-erasing aspiring star. However, in autobiographical letters to the press, girl fans proudly self-identified as movie bingers and aspiring actresses. Investigating girl fans’ willing and public adherence to such a pejorative stereotype, I complicate our understanding of early twentieth-century female fan agency and its relation to Hollywood’s burgeoning press machine.
For this assignment you should address the following questions.
For some of you, writing an abstract is new. Here are some pointers. First, an abstract is a short explanation of what your longer piece is about. Think of it as a preview of a film. You want to say what the article is about, what sources you are drawing on, and what conversation you are joining. A good example can be found in "Cinema Journal," which is in the ASU Library website (there are other examples, but this one was sitting on my coffee table this morning).
Abstract Example: The first article, "Star-Struck: The Invention of the Movie Girl Fan" by Diana Anselmo-Sequeira will suffice as an example:
This article examines questions of agency, identity, and fan-industry collaboration underpinning the fabrication of an exclusively feminine personification of excessive film fandom. Dubbed “the screen-struck girl,” this white, adolescent figure was presented in American fan magazines and popular newspapers of the 1910s as a pathological consumer and a self-erasing aspiring star. However, in autobiographical letters to the press, girl fans proudly self-identified as movie bingers and aspiring actresses. Investigating girl fans’ willing and public adherence to such a pejorative stereotype, I complicate our understanding of early twentieth-century female fan agency and its relation to Hollywood’s burgeoning press machine.
For this assignment you should address the following questions.
- What is your argument (thesis)?
- How is it a civil rights issue (the rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality)?
- How does this clarify a misunderstanding, omission, or misrepresentation of History?
- How does it affect your community (community can be defined in multiple ways)?
Label File as: Lastname_Firstname_Abstract_Class(M1, M3, G1, G3, or G4)
If you handed in your abstract late or had to reformat it after the due date, please notify me.
Extra: How educational rights were fought for.
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Week 3: How did the status of African Americans change during the period from 1890 to 1920?
Mar. 20: What impact did the Great Migration have on the status of African Americans?
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March 21-22: What impact did the Harlem Renaissance have on the status of African Americans?
Week 4: How and with what success did the Civil Rights movement gain momentum after 1945?
Mar. 25: How did the March on Washington change U.S. policy?
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Mar. 26-27: In which ways did the Civil Rights Act (1964) create equality?
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Mar. 28-29: In which way did the Voting Rights Act (1965) create equality?
Week 5: Why were there different approaches to campaigning for civil rights?Apr. 1-5:
How effective was MLK and nonviolent protest in the campaign for civil rights? In which ways did Malcolm X help or hurt the campaign for civil rights?
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Different approaches by Other GroupsJapanese American Citizen League
Founded in 1929, the JACL is the oldest and largest Asian American civil rights organization in the United States. The JACL monitors and responds to issues that enhance or threaten the civil and human rights of all Americans and implements strategies to effect positive social change, particularly to the Asian Pacific American community. United Farm Workers
In 1962 Cesar founded the National Farm Workers Association, later to become the United Farm Workers – the UFW. He was joined by Dolores Huerta and the union was born. That same year Richard Chavez designed the UFW Eagle and Cesar chose the black and red colors. National Organization for Women (NOW)
As the grassroots arm of the women’s movement, the National Organization for Women is dedicated to its multi-issue and multi-strategy approach to women’s rights, and is the largest organization of feminist grassroots activists in the United States. Since our founding in 1966, NOW’s purpose is to take action through intersectional grassroots activism to promote feminist ideals, lead societal change, eliminate discrimination, and achieve and protect the equal rights of all women and girls in all aspects of social, political, and economic life. American Indian Movement (AIM)
AIM began in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in the summer of 1968. It began taking form when 200 people from the Indian community turned out for a meeting called by a group of Native American community activists led by George Mitchell, Dennis Banks, and Clyde Bellecourt. Frustrated by discrimination and decades of federal Indian policy, they came together to discuss the critical issues restraining them and to take control over their own destiny Gay Liberation Front (GLF)
The GLBT Historical Society collects, preserves, exhibits and makes accessible to the public materials and knowledge to support and promote understanding of LGBTQ history, culture and arts in all their diversity. Earth Day and Environmental Movement
Each year, Earth Day—April 22—marks the anniversary of the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970. Although mainstream America largely remained oblivious to environmental concerns, the stage had been set for change by the publication of Rachel Carson’s New York Times bestseller Silent Spring in 1962. |
Week 6: Why were there different approaches to campaigning for civil rights?
Apr 8:
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Apr. 9-10: Which which ways did the Black Power movement change the civil rights movement before the 1970s?
1968 Mexico City Olympics
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Muhammad Ali/Cassius Clay?
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Apr. 11-12: Which which ways did the Black Panthers change the civil rights movement?
Week 7: Work on Op-Ed
Lyrics from Hamilton:
And when my time is up
Have I done enough?
Will they tell my story?
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Will they tell your story?
Who lives, who dies, who tells your story?
And when my time is up
Have I done enough?
Will they tell my story?
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Will they tell your story?
Who lives, who dies, who tells your story?
DUE APRIL 19TH AT 4:00PM
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Hand in Op Ed Here
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Support, Tips, Tricks, and Advice
Jonathan Zimmerman is a professor of education and history at New York University. He is the author of Too Hot to Handle: A Global History of Sex Education (Princeton, 2015) and four other books. Zimmerman has published over 300 op-eds in the New York Times, the Washington Post,and other newspapers and magazines.
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This is not a formula, but a guide to help you as you formulate your ideas.
Check your writing with this website to view where you see passive voice, adverbs, and complex sentences.
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Other Op Ed Examples: These do not always address Civil Rights, but are good examples.