Week 4 / Summer: 1877-1917 Overview Civil Rights: Progression or Regression?

After the Reconstruction period we will come on to look at how African American civil rights fared between 1877 - 1918. In the last lesson and over the Summer you will gain an overview of how the period.

Information on the Plessy v Ferguson Case (1896)

By the first lesson in September you need to have:

1.Responded to the marking of your assignment with your own comments in green pen. Answer any questions posed, raise any questions you have, refer to any points you feel are significant or you feel you have progressed with, refer to any areas you feel you need to develop etc.

      We will then be going on to look at the 1877-1917 period

2.    Read Patterson pp. 60-71

3.    Read and highlighted Plessy v Ferguson (Gilder Lehrman) sheets

4.    Read and highlighted Segregation and Disenfranchisement (GL) sheet

5.    Read and highlighted Lynching (GL) sheet

6.    Make detailed notes on Paterson 60-71 (esp. 69-71)

7. Read more widely on how African Americans fared between 1877-1917. What improved? What regressed? What was the role of the federal government? What other factors were important? Add any additional notes you see fit on the period

I will collect in the Patterson notes on the first lesson back in September.

Have a good break. Best wishes.