Prompt: After reading the below sources in Reading and Resources, answer the following: what was Plessy v. Ferguson about and what was decided? What impact did this case have? Using the linked newspaper articles below, what similarities and differences do you see in the ways in which the southern papers handled the reporting of this event compared to that of the northern papers? Why do you think that is? Use evidence from the papers to support your answer. Cite the papers specifically. Then, what can you infer from W.E.B. DuBois, Ida B. Wells, and Congressman White’s speech about race, equality and the overall social and political condition of black Americans in the United States at the turn of the century? Please use evidence from the assigned essays and speeches to support your argument (see Voices of Freedom 58-67 and the assigned readings of White below). Finally, W.E.B. DuBois and Congressman White both hold a vision of America’s future in their 1899 writings. Over one hundred years later, do you think these goals have been realized? Why or why not? Provide evidence from a contemporary source, such as an online article. 1. From Give Me Liberty!, pp. 658-669 and pp. 669-673; 2. From Voices of Freedom, pp. 58-67; 3. “The Law is Constitutional,” The Roanoke Daily Times (Roanoke, VA), May 19, 1896; 4. “Separate Cars for the Races,” The Weekly Messenger (St. Martinsville, LA), May 23, 1896; 5. “Supreme Court Decides the ‘Jim Crow’ Car Law is Constitutional,” New Ulm Review (New Ulm, Brown County, MN), May 20, 1896; 6. “Three Opinions Handed Down from the Highest Tribunal,” The Omaha Daily Bee (Omaha, NE), May 19, 1896; 7. “Another Decision,” Richmond Planet (Richmond, VA), May 23, 1896; 8. Annotation of a speech from Congressman George H. White of North Carolina, the only African American congressman serving in both houses in 1899.
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