Do Now: Small Groups. 15 minutes.
Circle of Viewpoints What are the various American perspectives you can identify during the Reconstruction Era?
Circle-up for discussion. 10 minutes. The terrible death and destruction of the Civil War followed by the decade of Reconstruction touched the lives of every American in some manner. The United States was reunited and the democratic experiment of self government was to continue. Notable attempts were made to address the ideals of equality, yet these efforts fell short of being fully realized for a multitude of reasons. Expense and taxation to support Reconstruction programs, regional interests superseded national ones, and perhaps the biggest factor was many white Americans could not or were not willing to look beyond skin color. The South purposefully was able to implement policies which denied rights to African-Americans while the rest of the country turned a blind eye to events taking place there. So, what distractions turned Americans' attention away from this issue in the decades following? Growth in the West as well as postwar rapid industrialization. Google Classroom | Jim Crow Reading and Study Guide | 40 minutes class time.
Next week we confront the ugly past.
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Course DescriptionGreat World Text is an advanced English and Social Studies course sponsored by the University of Wisconsin’s Center for Humanities. This year will consist of The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, the landmark 1912 novel by James Weldon Johnson. Known only as the “Ex-Colored Man,” the protagonist in Johnson’s novel is forced to choose between celebrating his African American heritage or “passing” as an average white man in a post-Reconstruction America that is rapidly changing. The course will encounter themes of racial passing, multiracial families, and African-American music traditions.
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