AFRS 3212: African Americans in the 20th Century Guided Book Critique of Dr. Carol Anderson’s
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
ASSIGNMENT DUE to the “White Rage”
Use the key terms and specific references to White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Dr. Carol Anderson to answer THREE (3) of the following four questions. Be careful to cite references to the text for direct and indirect quotes. Submit your responses as one Microsoft Word document that is double spaced and typed in 12 pt., Times New Roman font to the “White Rage” dropbox. Each answer must be at least 500 words (one-and-a-half pages). You will not receive extra credit for answering all four questions.
1. READ: “Reconstructing Reconstruction,” pgs. 18 – 38 of White Rage
KEY TERMS: Dred Scott decision; Black Codes; vagrancy; apprenticeship; Civil Rights Act of 1866; carceral state; Andrew Johnson’s vetoes; Reconstruction Acts of 1867; Enforcement Acts; Ku Klux Klan; 14th Amendment; 15th Amendment; 1873 Slaughterhouse Cases; United States v. Cruikshank (1876); Civil Rights Cases (1883); Colfax, Louisiana; Plessy v. Ferguson (1896); Williams v. Mississippi; poll tax
How did southern governments and the Johnson presidency stop the gains made through civil rights legislation passed between 1865 – 1883?
2. READ: “Derailing the Great Migration,” pgs. 39 – 57 of White Rage
KEY TERMS: Mary Turner; Robert S. Abbott; Chicago Defender; Great Migration; spectacle lynching; peonage; Chicago Urban League; NAACP; Crisis; race riots; Red Summer of 1919; Black Bottom; redlining; restrictive covenants; Dr. Ossian Sweet
Why did so many African Americans leave the South during the Great Migration? How and why did southern whites try to keep black people from leaving? What were some of the consequences of the population increases in northern cities?
3. READ: “Burning Brown to the Ground,” pgs. 67 – 87 of White Rage
KEY TERMS: Charles Hamilton Houston; NAACP; Plessy v. Ferguson; Prince Edward County, Virginia; Thurgood Marshall; Brown v. Topeka Board of Education; Fourteenth Amendment; due process; Fifth Amendment; Roy Wilkins; Central High in Little Rock; race-neutral; Brown II; White Citizens’ Councils; Southern Manifesto; “stall and defy”; Cooper v. Aaron
What was the NAACP’s strategy for establishing public school integration? How did southern whites respond to the Brown v Board and Brown II Supreme Court cases?
4. READ: “Rolling Back Civil Rights,” pgs. 98 – 118 of White Rage
KEY TERMS: Southern Christian Leadership Conference; reverse discrimination; systemic and institutional racism; Voting Rights Act of 1965; “colorblind”; race-neutral language; “Southern Strategy”; “law and order” politics; South Carolina v. Katzenbach (1966); Massive Resistance; stall and undermine; San Antonio Independen School District v. Rodriguez (1973); zoning; Thurgood Marshall; Milliken v. Bradley (1974); Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978)
What strategies did the Nixon administration and the Supreme Court adopt to reverse the gains made after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1864 and the Voting Rights Act of 1865?
