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Writewell
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African
American Studies
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Spragins/Jordan
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Spring
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Assignment
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Feb
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9
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Angela Whitiker with her youngest child, Christopher, 10, in Chicago
earlier this spring.
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The Situation:
Video: Gary McCullough in The Corner (2000)
Angela
Whitiker's Rise to the Middle Class (June 12, 2005, NY Times)
Paragraph:
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How
did Angela Whitiker rise to the middle class? Topic Sentence: Identify
the Key Factor (in your opinion).
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2
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10
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Tues
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The Fisk Jubilee
Singers (1877)
Sound
Files “Shouts”
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Black Resistance to Slavery:
Negro Spirituals:
Video: from Amistad (1997), The Middle Passage
(see The Amistad
Case (1841), at NARA)
Notes on Slavery (Foner)
Slave Songs (Spartacus) (Frederick
Douglass) (Negro Spirituals)
Voices from the
Days of Slavery, interviews of 23 former slaves recorded between 1932 and
1975, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
Video: from We Shall Overcome (1989), on Negro Spirituals
Paragraph:
Describe the conception of freedom expressed in the
original spiritual "I Will Overcome".
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2
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11
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Wed
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Frederick Douglass
Map of
Maryland (1855)
Beneath the Underground: The
Flight To Freedom (MD State Archives)
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Black Resistance to Slavery:
Read Frederick Douglass, from Narrative
of Frederick Douglass (1845)
From Narrative, Chapter Six, Age Seven: Literacy One
From Narrative, Chapter Seven, Age Twelve: Literacy Two
From Narrative, Chapter Ten, Age Fifteen: Standing up to Mr.
Covey
Paragraph:
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What
enabled Frederick Douglass to stand up to the slave breaker, Mr. Covey?
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2
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12
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Thurs
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St.
Gaudens, Memorial to Robert Gould
Shaw and the Massachusetts 54th (National Gallery)
Emancipation, Thomas Nast (1865)
Freed Slaves
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The Civil War and Reconstruction:
Video: from Glory (1989)
Read the Story of the Massachusetts 54th
Infantry
Emancipation Proclamation (1863) (document)
Reconstruction
Timeline (PBS)
Jourdon
Anderson, an ex- Tennessee slave, declines his former master's
invitation to return as a laborer on his plantation. (1865)
Forty Acres and a Mule?
What happened to General Sherman’s promise that freed slaves would
receive Forty
Acres and a Mule from the defeated Southern planters? (Read the
following online article: “From
Slave Labor to Free Labor” (Digital History)
Instead, freed slaves faced a much more difficult path to economic
stability. (Read "Captain Charles Soule, Northern Army Officer,
lectures Freedmen of Orangeburg, South Carolina on the Responsibilities of Freedom"
(1865))
Paragraph:
What challenges did the newly freed slaves face after the end of the
Civil War? Was the government’s
policy setting the freedmen up for failure?
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Juneteenth
(1865)
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The Civil War and Reconstruction:
Backgrounds: Congressional Reconstruction
Thirteenth
Amendment (1865)
Freedmen’s
Bureau (1865)
Civil
Rights Act (1866)
Fourteenth
Amendment (1866)
Fifteenth
Amendment (1869)
The Southern Legal Response to the 14th Amendment:
The
Slaughterhouse Cases (1873)
United
States v. Reese (1875)
United
States v. Cruikshank (1875)
Strauder
v. West Virginia (1879)
Virginia
v. Rives (1879)
United
States v. Harris (1883)
Paragraph:
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Explain
the legal logic used by Southern lawyers to, in effect, repeal the 14th
Amendment.
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Tues.
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Lynching
in Clanton Alabama, 1891
D.W. Griffith, "Birth
of a Nation" (1915)
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Institution of Sharecropping and Segregation:
Explore these sites:
“Slave
to Sharecropper” and “White Men
Unite” from Reconstruction:
The Second Civil War (American Experience)
Read this reminiscence of the
Klan in action in 1894 by Leon
Branham, a freed slave. (Documenting
the American South (UNC))
Paragraph;
How did White Southern
planters force the newly freed slaves into accepting the sharecropping
system?
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Wed.
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Ida B. Wells Barnett (1862-1931) Killing the Messenger: Ida
Wells-Barnett Protests a Postmaster’s Murder in 1898
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The 1890's (The Nadir)
Clip from D.W. Griffith,
"Birth
of a Nation" (1915)
Explore this Website from the Maryland State Archives: Judge
Lynch's Court: Mob Justice in Maryland During the Age of Jim Crow,
1860s - 1930s (2007) [Check out the story of the last man lynched in
Towson, MD on July 23rd, 1885: Howard
Cooper (user name: aaco
password: aaco#]
Faulkner, Dry September
See also "Their Own Hotheadedness":
Senator Benjamin R."Pitchfork Ben" Tillman Justifies Violence
Against Southern Blacks
Yet... Ida B. Wells urged that blacks use
self defense. “Self-Help” from Southern Horrors: The Lynch Law in All
Its Phases (1892)
Paragraph:
What options existed for African Americans to resist
oppression even during the bleakest period of white tyranny?
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Thurs.
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"The
Great Migration: A Story in Paintings" by Jacob Lawrence
 Apartment
Building in Chicago's "Black Belt" (LOC)
Chad's
Powerpoint:
"World War I, the Great
Migration, and the Harlem Renaissance"
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The Great
Migration and World War One:
Job
Opportunity YET...Housing Segregation and Union Exclusion
Migrant
Letters (History Matters)
"Helpful Hints for Migrants to Detroit", 1919 (National Urban
League) (Settlement House Movement) (xerox)
For further reading: Charles
Johnson on Chicago Race Riot (1919) (History
Matters)
The Blues Move
North:
Muddy Waters, "You Got to Take
Sick and Die Some of These Days" (web) (Lyrics)
Howling Wolf, "Wang Dang Doodle"
B.B. King, "The Thrill Is Gone"
Robert Johnson, "Crossroad Blues"
Homework:
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Paragraph:
Do you agree with the advice given by the National Urban League to
migrants? Explain.
More Music:
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Fri.
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Booker T.
Washington (1856-1915)
W.E.B. DuBois
(1868-1963)
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Defining a Race Politics: Booker Washington vs. W.E.B. DuBois
Paul
Lawrence Dunbar, “We
Wear the Mask” (1896)
Booker T. Washington:
W.E.B. DuBois:
Paragraph:
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How
would Booker Washington have responded to DuBois' criticism of his
methods of earning opportunity from white philanthropists?
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Mon.
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Marcus Garvey
(1887-1940)
UNIA Flag
 The
Black Star Line
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Defining a Race Politics: Marcus Garvey
Marcus
Garvey:
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Read
the following article describing the new NAACP head, Bruce S. Gordon.
Describe the advice that Garvey might give him as he starts his new job.
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Mon.
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A. Philip
Randolph (1889-1979)
Pullman
Car Porter
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Defining a Race Politics: A. Philip Randolph
Notes on "A.
Philip Randolph: Labor Leader at Large" by Benjamin Quarles
Career
Overview:
- 1919- Editor of the
Left Wing periodical The
Messenger: Opposition to Blacks Fighting in WWI
- “Our Reason for Being”
(The Messenger, 1919)
- 1920's- Agitating to
Break Color Line in Labor Unions
- 1930's- Founds the Brotherhood of Sleeping
Car Porters, the 1st organized black union recognized by AFL-CIO.
- 1941- Threatens
March on Washington to protest discrimination against negroes in
federal employment; FDR signs Executive
Order 8802 doing just that.
- 1940's- Helps organize
CORE which pioneers Ghandian non-violent protest methods (sit-ins,
demonstrations)
- 1963- Helps organize
the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, delivers the keynote address
- see also Spartacus
Site; Randolph Quotes
Field Trip: Oella,
Maryland: The Banneker Tour; Meet at 12:00 Noon in front of Carey Hall.
Paragraph:
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What
advice would A. Philip Randolph give to the people who work as custodians
in private schools today?
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Tues.
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Zora Neale Hurston (1925)
Langston Hughes (1925)
Bessie Smith (at UVA)
William Johnson, Sweet
Life, Harlem (1939)
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The Harlem Renaissance
video clips from Duke Ellington "Hot Chocolate (Cotton
Tail)"; Cab Calloway in The Cotton Club; and Bessie Smith
singing, "Taint
Nobody's Business If I Do"; Billie
Holliday singing, Strange
Fruit (1939) and God Bless The Child (1941)
Overview:
Poetry:
Short Stories:
Paragraph:
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Read
Zora Neale Hurston: "Spunk" (1925) and
then write a paragraph which explains the point she is making. (Which
ideological leader best reflects her point of view?)
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Readings for Potential Papers:
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Wed.
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No
School! Happy Independence Day!
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Thurs.
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Billie
Holiday (1915-59)
West Baltimore in 1898
Royal Theater Memorial
Eubie Blake National Jazz Center
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Writewell Summary: Weeks One and Two
The African-American Renaissance in Baltimore: Pennsylvania
Avenue and the Glory Days of Baltimore's West Side
"Old West Baltimore:
Segregation, African-American Culture, and The Struggle for Equality"
by Karen Olsen in The Baltimore Book: New Views of Local History (1991)
Paragraph:
Define
a 'vertically integrated neighborhood'. Why was this quality essential to
the vibrancy of African-American culture in West Baltimore despite
segregation during the first half of the 20th century? (Which of the black ideological
leaders would have supported maintaining segregation?)
Billie Holiday sings:
Field Trip: Thurgood Marshall/Billie Holiday Walking Heritage Tour of
the Historic Pennsylvania Avenue Corridor (Center for Cultural Education); The Hippodrome; Baltimore West Side
Revitalization Today
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Fri.
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Charles
H. Houston (1895- 1950)
Thurgood
Marshall (1908-1993)
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The NAACP Legal Campaign to Overturn Plessy v. Fergusen
Paragraph:
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Choose
a case and explain how the NAACP strategy pursued in it fit into the
overall campaign to overturn Plessy. Which of the black leaders of
the early 20th century would have supported this strategy?
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The
Trial of "The Scottsboro Boys" (1931-37)
Labor
Defender (ILD) (1934)
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Radical Attempts to Organize Southern Farmers During the
Depression
- Great
Depression and the New Deal
- Young Radicals
Propose an Economic Program for the NAACP, 1935 (xerox)
- Louise 'Mamma'
Harris Describes Labor Organizing in Richmond, Virginia, Tobacco
Factories (xerox)
- Radical Organizing
During the Depression (Kelley) (xerox)
Paragraph:
Have
Booker Washington and H. Philip Randolph comment on the NAACP's
choice to eschew radical approaches to gaining justice for Southern Blacks
like the Scottsboro Boys and the tenant farmers who attempted to organize
unions.
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March on Washington 1941 flyer
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World War II: Integrating the Armed Forces
- Extended Clip from A
Soldier's Story by Charles Fuller (1981)
- A. Philip Randolph's
Call
for a March on Washington (1941) to protest discrimination against
negroes in federal employment. (xerox)
- FDR signs Executive
Order 8802.
- The Fair Employment
Act (FEPC)
- A Marine's Letter to
A. Philip Randolph About Discrimination in the Marine Corps, c. 1943
(xerox)
- Harry Truman issues Executive Order 9981
Paragraph:
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Wed.
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Catch-Up
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Thurs.
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Earl Warren
(1891-1974)
Little
Rock Nine Enter
Central High School (1957)
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White Response to Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas
Paragraph:
Describe
the various methods employed by Southern state officials to resist the
desegregation of public schools as ordered by Brown. How were these
legal obstacles finally overcome? What lesson did blacks learn?
Field Trip: St. Francis Academy in East Baltimore
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West Baltimore (2005)
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White Flight to the Suburbs
Paragraph:
Write a
paragraph about the way that sleazy real estate brokers made a fortune by
‘block busting’.
Read
Flannery O'Connor's short story "Everything
That Rises Must Converge" (1965) about integrating a southern
city's bus lines. What political point is O'Connor making?
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Rosa Parks
King arrested in Montgomery
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Direct Action: The Civil Rights Movement: Montgomery Bus Boycott
(1955-56)
Paragraph:
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What
made the boycott a success? What place did King's leadership play in the overall
boycott?
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For Further Study:
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Greensboro Sit-In
Freedom bus destroyed by mob
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Direct Action: The Civil Rights Movement: The Sit-In Movement
(SNCC) and the Freedom Riders (CORE)
Paragraph:
Identify the key moment in the sequence of events which
led to the federal government taking direct action to support the movement
to end segregation in the South.
Are
non-violent actions morally wrong when they seek to provoke violent
reactions?
Field Trip: Martha's Place; New Song Academy; Shannon Baptist
Church; Sandtown Habitat for Humanity
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Birmingham, 1963
March on Washington, 1963
"I have a dream"
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Direct Action: The Civil Rights Movement: Children's Crusade in
Birmingham and The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963)
Paragraph:
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Pinpoint
the decision which made the Birmingham march into a success. Which of the
early century's leaders would have agreed with your opinion: Washington,
DuBois, Garvey or Randolph?
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Thurs.
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Ella Baker
Bob Moses
Fannie Lou Hamer,
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
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Direct Action: The Civil Rights Movement: Bob Moses, Fannie Lou
Hamer and the Mississippi Voter Registration Drive (1964)
- The Murder of NAACP
leader Medgar Evers (1963)
- Freedom
Summer in Mississippi (1964) (Prather Powerpoint)
- The Murders of
Schwemer, Goodman and Chaney (1964)
- Fannie Lou Hamer and
the Mississippi Freedom Party at the 1964 Democratic Presidential
Convention in Atlantic City (from Eyes on the Prize: Episode Five)
- The
Selma March and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (Prather Powerpoint)
- "Challenging
the Politics of Spokesmanship" by Charles M. Payne (On Ella
Baker) (xerox)
Paragraph:
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Why
did Ella Baker regard mass demonstrations as less important than organizing
voter registration drives at the grass roots level? Which political
leader would have agreed with her?
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Malcolm Little
Detroit Red
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Direct Action: Malcolm X and Black Power
Paragraph:
Which
of the Black Power Movements (Nation of Islam or Black Panthers) would
Marcus Garvey have joined? Why?
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Malcolm X
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Malik Shabazz
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King vs. Malcolm
Paragraph:
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Can
you find common ground between King and Malcolm? Is there any way that
their political philosophies can be combined? Explain.
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William Julius Wilson
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Today: William Julius Wilson vs. Clarence Thomas
William Julius Wilson and the Necessity for Jobs: "Dr. Wilson's
Neighborhood" by David Remnick in The New Yorker, April 1996
(Study Guide)
Paragraph:
Have Booker
Washington or Marcus Garvey comment on Dr. Wilson's theories about what is
to be done to address the problems which exist today in the inner city.
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Thurs.
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Clarence
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Today: William Julius Wilson vs. Clarence Thomas
- Clarence Thomas
and Black Self-Reliance: Thomas' Concurrence in Missouri
v. Jenkins (1995)
- "Leanita
McClain on Being Black, Successful, and Middle Class" (1980)
(xerox)
- "Are Jobs the
Solution?" by Glenn C. Loury in The Wilson Quarterly
(1996)
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Paragraph:
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Have
WEB DuBois or A. Philip Randolph comment on Loury's criticism of Wilson's
theories.
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Fri.
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Mos Def
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Return to The
Corner and Gary McCullough: What is to be done?
Clips from
Russell Simmons' Def Poetry Jam
Homework:
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Final Paper Work
Homework:
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Thurs.
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Final Paper Work
Homework:
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Homework:
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