The document provides instructions for a final essay examination. Students must choose five of six essay topics to respond to in approximately 500 words each. The essays must be cited in APA format and draw from textbooks and other sources. Topics cover sharecropping in the South, the Great Migration between 1914-1929, the New Negro movement and related topics in the 1920s, effects of the Great Depression and WWII on African Americans, the civil rights movement between 1956-1966, and Black Power after 1965. Essays are due by 9:00PM EST.

1. In your Final Essay Examination, you must address five (5) of
the following six (6) essay topics. Each essay should be
approximately 500 words. You should properly cite all of your
sources in APA format, including textbooks and any other
sources you may use.
Analyze the workings of the sharecropping system and explain
why many African Americans preferred it to wage labor.
Explain why so many sharecroppers ended up destitute and tied
to a farm or plantation.
Analyze the main factors that impelled black people to leave the
South, and the main factors that drew them North between 1914
and 1929. Explain why the Great Migration is considered a
“watershed” (a turning point) in African American history.
Compare and contrast each of the following in light of the
historical period in which they appeared: the “New Negro”
movement, Marcus Garvey and the UNIA, and the Harlem
Renaissance. Analyze the relationships among them and explain
why they appeared almost simultaneously, and why New York
was so important to all of them.
Explain the various ways that the Great Depression and World
War II affected African Americans in the South, North, and
West, countryside and the city. Analyze their main responses to
this economic disaster.
Explain the philosophy of nonviolence as articulated by Martin
Luther King, Jr. and other leaders of the civil rights movement
in the context of the Cold War and resurgent Southern
segregationism. Evaluate how successful it was as a strategy in
the many struggles that occurred between 1956 and 1966.

2. Analyze Black Power as a phase of the freedom movement and
as a political outlook. Explain why it emerged after 1965, how
it differed from the civil rights phase of the movement, and its
overall impact on African American life and history in the last
four decades of economic stagnation and political crisis.
Due by 9:00PM EST.