The midterm exam will consist of ten short answer
questions (4-5 sentences each, 50% of test grade) and one long essay
(50%).
Be prepared to answer questions on any of the material covered in
class:
the readings from your texts and from handouts, online
selections,
as well as lecture content and film clips.
ESSAY QUESTION
You will receive one of three questions below on the essay
section.
You will not know which one of the three will be on the exam, so study
for all of them. Some pointers: answer the question as directly
and
clearly as possible. Be sure to address all the components of the
question. Remember to integrate the relevant reading and lecture
material to support your argument. Always avoid vague
generalizations.
Refer to specific events, policies, groups, ideas and individuals in
your
answers. Blue paper will be provided for your longer essay.
Do not make any markings, outlines, or notes on scratch paper prior to
the exam.
1. The civil rights movement
is often thought to span the years 1955-1965. Why have so many
historians looked at the decades before that period for the roots of
the movement?
2. Why does Michael Klarman dispute the idea that the black freedom
struggle reveals steady, "inevitable" progress.
3. Discuss what motivated segregationists and integrationists.
How did each side use religion and tradition to make their arguments?
TERMS, NAMES, IDEAS
Be prepared to provide a four to five
sentence synopsis of any of the
below items. If you are familiar with the terms and names below,
it should help you considerably on the exam. Remember, it is best to
know
the “who,” “what,” “where,” “when,” and “why” of these. The “why”
or the significance of any term or name is most
important.
Fugitive Slave Act
The Emancipation Proclamation
NAACP
Mark Smith on race and the senses
W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk
Jim Crow Laws
Thurgood Marshall
Legal Defense Fund
World wars I and II and the black freedom struggle
The Great Migration
Sweat v. Painter
Kenneth Clark
Sex and segregation after Brown
Emitt Till
SCLC
Judge Tom Brady
Little Rock's Central High
SNCC
Freedom Rides
Bob Moses
"A Stone of Hope"
"Letter from Birmingham Jail"
Fannie Lou Hamer
Malcolm X
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