please follow the writing commom : 1 . Thesis: 2 . Quotes: 1. QUOTE – Introduce quote in your own prose and use brackets and ellipses to alter quotation. 2. CITE – Follow the provided guidelines. 3. EXPLAIN – Quotes do not speak for themselves. Paraphrase, call the reader’s attention to specific words/images/phrases, and make the interpretation/meaning explicit in the text. 3. Topic sentences: The first sentence of every paragraph should offer the paragraph’s main idea, which you defend with evidence in the next several sentences. Example: Besides weighing in on the subject of educational priorities, DuBois was a far stronger proponent of civil rights for African Americans than Washington was. In 1905, he and his educated compatriots called, in an essay announcing their “Niagara Movement,” for the fulfillment of the rights guaranteed to all Americans in the 13 th , 14 th , and 15 th Amendments... 4. General Improvements : 1. Be explicit and specific!  focus on it please Kim  PROOFREAD  Don’t generalize or pass judgment where you’re not asked to H251 African-American History, 1880-Present Part I: Identification terms:  The exam will include 5 of the following fifteen identification terms listed below. You will need to provide answers to all five id terms on the exam. Each answer should be approximately four sentences in length. Plan to spend approximately 5 minutes of exam time per term. Answers should 1) define the term, 2) place it in historical context (time, place, persons/issues involved), and, most importantly, 3) identify the significance of the term in African-American history. (5 points possible per term)  Thibodaux Sugar War                   Red Summer            United Negro Improvement Association National Urban League                 Anna Julia Cooper              Plessy v. Ferguson Fourteenth Amendment              Jack Johnson                       War Risk Insurance Act                            James Reese Europe                      Madame C.J. Walker          Birth of a Nation Lynching                                           Silent March (NYC)             Mamie Smith           Part II: Primary Source Analysis:  The exam will consist of two of the primary documents listed below. You will select one to analyze. Your analysis should place the document in historical context, assess its significance to historical events and social movements of the period in which it was created, & interpret its meaning as an expression of African-American experience. Plan to spend approximately 20 minutes of exam time on primary source analysis. A copy of the primary documents will be provided with the exam. (25 points possible) Claude McKay’s “If We Must Die” (1919) (pg. 45-46 of  From Timbuktu …) Marcus Garvey’s "Explanation of the Objects of the Universal Negro Improvement Association" (1921) (Canvas) Alain Locke’s “The New Negro: An Interpretation” (1925) (pg. 43-45 of  From Timbuktu …) Part III: Short Essay: On.

1. please follow the writing commom :
1
. Thesis:
2
. Quotes:
1. QUOTE – Introduce quote in your own prose and use
brackets and
ellipses to alter quotation.
2. CITE – Follow the provided guidelines.
3. EXPLAIN – Quotes
do not
speak for themselves. Paraphrase, call
the reader’s attention to specific words/images/phrases, and
make the interpretation/meaning explicit in the text.
3. Topic sentences:
The first sentence of every paragraph should offer the
paragraph’s
main idea, which you defend with evidence in the next several
sentences.
Example:
Besides weighing in on the subject of educational priorities,
DuBois
was a far stronger proponent of civil rights for African
Americans than Washington was. In 1905, he and his educated
compatriots called, in an essay announcing their “Niagara
Movement,” for the fulfillment of the rights guaranteed to all
Americans in the 13
th
, 14
th
, and 15
th

2. Amendments...
4.
General Improvements
:
1.
Be explicit and specific!
focus on it please Kim
PROOFREAD
Don’t generalize or pass judgment where you’re not asked to
H251 African-American History, 1880-Present
Part I: Identification terms:
The exam will include 5 of the following fifteen identification
terms listed below. You will need to provide answers to all five
id terms on the exam. Each answer should be approximately
four sentences in length. Plan to spend approximately 5 minutes
of exam time per term. Answers should 1) define the term, 2)
place it in historical context (time, place, persons/issues
involved), and, most importantly, 3) identify the significance of
the term in African-American history. (5 points possible per
term)
Thibodaux Sugar War Red Summer United
Negro Improvement Association
National Urban League Anna Julia Cooper
Plessy v. Ferguson
Fourteenth Amendment Jack Johnson
War Risk Insurance Act
James Reese Europe Madame C.J. Walker
Birth of a Nation
Lynching Silent March (NYC)
Mamie Smith
Part II: Primary Source Analysis:

3. The exam will consist of two of the primary documents listed
below. You will select one to analyze. Your analysis should
place the document in historical context, assess its significance
to historical events and social movements of the period in which
it was created, & interpret its meaning as an expression of
African-American experience. Plan to spend approximately 20
minutes of exam time on primary source analysis. A copy of the
primary documents will be provided with the exam. (25 points
possible)
Claude McKay’s “If We Must Die” (1919) (pg. 45-46 of
From Timbuktu
…)
Marcus Garvey’s "Explanation of the Objects of the Universal
Negro Improvement Association" (1921) (Canvas)
Alain Locke’s “The New Negro: An Interpretation” (1925) (pg.
43-45 of
From Timbuktu
…)
Part III: Short Essay:
One of the following essays will appear on the exam. Prepare
for both as you will not not be able to choose which question to
answer. Please note that because a study guide is provided in
advance, I expect a well-organized and well-argued paper that
includes references to primary and secondary sources (however,
quotations are not expected). I suggest that students prepare
outlines of essays in advance (though you will
not
be able to bring them to the exam). Plan to spend
approximately 30 minutes of exam time on the essay. (50 points
possible)
1. Discuss the development of Jim Crow policies and practices
in the U.S. following Reconstruction. Be sure to consider both
“legal” constraints to black equality such as poll taxes and
segregation as well as extra-legal (outside or against the law)

4. such as lynching and race riots.
2. Write an essay that describes the causes of the Great
Migration. Consider both those factors that encouraged African
Americans to leave the rural south and those factors that drew
them to the urban north.
Tips for Writing a Historical Essay
The following components are essential to a historical essay: 1)
An introductory paragraph that establishes the scope of the
argument – including the specific time period, geographic area,
& demographics of the group of people you’ll discuss. 2) A
thesis statement
(located at the end of the introduction) in which you establish
the specific position or take a stand that you will defend in the
body of your essay. 3) Evidence to support your thesis derived
from both lecture & course readings. No Quotations or citations
are necessary because this is an in-class essay. 4) A concluding
paragraph that restates your argument and explains its
significance.