a davis ka 3&4

KA #3 & #4

Black Life During the Nadir

Submission Information:

Submission Guidelines:

Point Values:

❑ KA #3 =

90 Points

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❑ KA #4 =

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- Total:

180

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Readings (Find them in the module):

The Nadir

• Defining the Nadir

• (1892-1894) The Red Record, Ida B. Wells – Barnett

• Birth of a Nation (film, 1915): Media and Racial Hate

• Read: H.L. Gates, The New Negro and the Black Image: From Booker T.

Washington to Alain Locke

https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/freedom/1917be

yond/essays/newnegro.htm

• The Atlanta Race Riot (1906)

• Springfield Race Riot (1908)

• Oral Histories from the Springfield Race Riot

• East St. Louis Race Riot (1917)

• Black WWI Vets & the Red Summer of 1919

• Mapping Lynchings: The Red Summer

The Nadir

*Defining the Nadir & Other Historical Debates

→ Outline the following (these are not sections in the article; these are the frames I want you to use

to collect info from the article):

o Defining the Nadir

o Historical Debates on the Nadir

* A Red Record, Ida B. Wells, 1984

→ Choose a chapter to outline and produce your own outline. Be sure to organize your outlines based

on the themes of Wells’ discussion

→ Analyze [150 words]: (1) What is Wells’ argument in this chapter? What evidence does she use in

your respective chapter to reveal about racial violence during this time?

* Birth of a Nation: Media & Racial Hate

→ Part I

→ Part II

o A - C

→ Part III

o A – D

→ Part IV

→ Analyze: [50 words or less]: What impact did the 1915 film Birth of a Nation have on Black life?

→ Analyze: [50 words of less]: Connect your above points to a conversation around media, politics,

and race relations during our current times.

* Articles on Racial Violence & Riots

→ For each article produce a bulleted list detailing the following:

o Cause of the riot:

o Damage experienced by Black communities as a result:

o Effects of the riot:

→ Analyze: Choose an oral history from the document on the Springfield, Illinois Riot of 1908.

o Choose a statement from one of the accounts. Copy & Paste it.

o [50 words or less] Write your reaction to this account.

* Red Summer of 1919: How Black WWI Vets Fought Back Against Racist Mobs

→ Intro

→ Riots at the Steps of the Capitol

→ A Murder in Chicago Ignites a City

→ For Veterans, a Broken Promise

* Mapping Lynching During the Red Summer of 1919

→ Analyze: Using 3 details from the map, consider: What does this map reveal to you about racial

violence during the Red Summer of 1919?

* The New Negro & the Black Image : From Booker T. Washington to Alain Locke

→ Produce an outline using the following themes:

o Intro

o The New Negro and the Quest for Respectability: 1895 to World War I

o From Politics to Art: The New Negro from 1919 to 1925

→ Analyze: Choose a leader from this article: What do their writings/perspectives on the Black image

reveal about Black life post slavery and Reconstruction?

* 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?