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KA #2

Black Life During Reconstruction

Submission Information:

Submission Guidelines:

Point Values:

❑ KA #2 = 90

Points

- Organizatio

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complete

sentences

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grade.

Readings (Find them in the module):

The Reconstruction Era : Read and Produce an outline:

• Read & Select an academic Blog Post from “Early Black Congressman

& Civil Rights.”

https://history.house.gov/Education/NHD/NHD-2026/NHD-

Reconstruction/

• Read: HBCU List

o Choose one and write a brief 150 word history of it.

• HBCU Medical Schools During Reconstruction

• https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/instance/2569729/pdf/jnma0

0196-0027.pdf

• The Role of the Black Church

• https://www.journalofthecivilwarera.org/2020/08/beyond-speeches-

and-leaders-the-role-of-black-churches-in-the-reconstruction-of-the-

united-states/

• Pioneering Black Millionaires During Reconstruction

• https://www.investopedia.com/first-black-millionaires-5218612

• The Black Lawmen of Reconstruction

• https://naucenter.as.virginia.edu/blog-page/black-lawmen-

reconstruction

• *Chapter1: Promoters and Settlers in The Black Towns; Normal L.

Crockett.

• https://muse.jhu.edu/book/83996/pdf/download

The Reconstruction Era:

*Early Black Congressmen & Civil Rights + Congress Investigates KKK Violence During Reconstruction

→ Choose an academic blog post and create a brief outline of its key points.

* Black Medical Schools During Reconstruction

→ Abstract & Introduction

→ Early African American Physicians

→ The Flexner Report

→ The Medical School Sections (List the schools and provide a few bullet points on them)

→ Conclusion

*HBCU List

→ Choose one HBCU

→ Visit the HBCUs website; select their history tabs

→ Write 150 words about their founding; history; and importance.

* Black Churches During Reconstruction

→ Document the most important key points.

→ Overall argument regarding the importance of the Black Church during this era.

→ Document key historical details used to support this argument

* Black Banking & Racial Violence Against Black Wealth

→ Introduction: Outline the overall argument the article is making.

→ The Genesis

→ Success

→ Problems

→ Echoes Today

* Pioneering Black Millionaires During Reconstruction

→ William Leidesdorff

→ John Stanly

→ Jeremiah Hamilton

→ Mary Ellen Pleasant

→ Robert Reed Church

→ Madam C.J. Walker

→ Daniel Murray

→ Black Capitalism Scholarship

→ FAQs

→ The Bottom Line

*The Black Lawmen of Reconstruction

→ Document a few bullet points on the roles Black Lawmen occupied.

→ Write a few sentences on the historical significance of Black Lawmen during the Reconstruction

Era.

*Chapter1: Promoters and Settlers in The Black Towns; Normal L. Crockett.

→ Create a bulleted list and document the Black Towns Crockett Discusses.

→ What messages were promoters of Black Towns echoing about the importance of Black Townships

during this era?

→ What does the history of Promoters and Settlers of Black Townships reveal about what Black

Americans lost during slavery? What does this chapter reveal about their strategies to attain what

was lost during slavery?

→ Overall, What are the historical significances of the Black Towns Movement?

2.) Post Reading Reflection Journal:

→ What are your remaining thoughts, feelings, questions, etc., after engaging with these materials?

→ What similarities exist between this era and our current time?

→ Why do you think the study of this era is particularly important during our current times?