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1. HIS 204 Week 4 DQ 1 A Single American
Nation
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A Single American Nation. When the First World
War began, African-American leaders pressed the
government to provide black men the right to go to
combat to prove their devotion to their country.
Hoping that their service would lay a stake on
citizenship which the nation would have no choice
but to honor, the “New Negro” of the 1920s
adopted a more militant stance toward civil rights.
The civil rights struggle envisioned at the time,
however, made few concrete gains. Discrimination
and disenfranchisement persisted.
African-American leaders responded to the Second
World War much as they had to the First, offering

2. their services while expecting recognition in
return. They intended to fight a “Double-V
Campaign” against fascism abroad and racism at
home. They helped to kill fascism abroad; racist
policies at home survived, but only for a time.
Less than a decade after the war ended, the Brown
case struck down the principle of “separate but
equal” in schools. A grass-roots movement
emerged to challenge discrimination elsewhere. By
1965, nonviolent means had murdered Jim Crow.
Yet, the 60s were nothing if not a violent decade,
marred by war, riots, and assassinations. By the
end of the decade, Americans were as divided in
some ways as they had ever been, and hopes for
integration into a single American nation largely
gave way to an emphasis on the unique needs and
interests of different groups within the nation.
Chart the progress of the Civil Rights Movement
from 1954 to 1965. Identifying specific events
from that period, explain why the movement
succeeded so well during this period when similar
struggles had gained so little in previous decades.
Compare and contrast the different approaches to
gaining civil rights adopted by different leaders in
this period, those of Martin Luther King and
Malcolm X, for instance. Finally, explain why the
Civil Rights Movement splintered at the end of the

3. decade by discussing at least TWO of the
following groups, drawing from the primary
sources below:
a. Native Americans
b. Women
c. The Black Power movement
d. Chicanos
e. Students
Summarize your response by considering the
following questions:
a. What precisely did the Civil Right Movement
gain?
b. What objectives did it fail to achieve?
c. Why did so many new movements emerge by
the end of the 1960s?
d. Was the nation more or less divided in 1970
than it had been in 1950?

4. When writing your response, draw from material
in the following video:
a. Let freedom ring: Moments from the civil rights
movement, 1954-1965
Also in your response, draw from at least TWO of
the documents listed below:
a. “The bottom of the economic totem pole”:
African American women in the workplace
b. The Port Huron statement of the students for a
democratic society
c. “The cycle of poverty”: Mexican-American
migrant farmworkers testify before Congress
d. “We must destroy the capitalistic system which
enslaves us”: Stokely Carmichael advocates black
revolution
e. “Self determination of free peoples”: Founding
documents of the American Indian Movement
(AIM)
f. “All our problems stem from the same sex based
myths”: Gloria Steinem delineates American
gender myths during ERA hearings

5. g. Gay power comes to Sheridan Square
Your initial post should be at least 200 words in
length. Support your claims with examples from
the required material(s) and/or other scholarly
resources, and properly cite any references.
Respond to at least two of your classmates’ posts
by Day 7 in at least 100 words. When responding
to classmates, you should refer to the material
from one of the sources which you did not
reference in your initial post.