The final 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. Write an essay on the
conservative religious reaction to the civil rights movement.
Explain what the historian Donald Dayton meant when he used the phrase,
“failure of evangelical conscience.”
2. How did the civil rights movement fracture from the mid 1960s
forward? What affect would that fracturing have on the black
freedom struggle?
3. Describe the ideological battles that have raged over affirmative
action. How do proponents and opponents of affirmative action
argue their cases? Why has this issue been so hotly debated since
the 1970s?
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.
Selma to Montgomery march
The roots of the black power movement
Lyndon Johnson-commissioned report, "Profiles of Disorder. . . Detroit"
Lowndes County Freedom Organization
Eldridge Cleaver
Robert F. Williams
The assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Black National Economic Conference
Randall Balmer on “selective literalism”
Charles Marsh on Martin Luther King, Jr's developing interest in civil
rights
SNCC and radical Christianity
Koinonia Farm
John Perkins
Fred Hampton
Angela Davis
California v. Bakke
Louise Day Hicks
Busing in Boston
Shelby Steele on the "age of white guilt"
Daniel Golden on “development admits”
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