Quiz #4/ 1 December Thursday, 30 Minutes

Reading Covered: Wilkerson, Warmth of Other Suns, 364 to end; Klibanoff & Roberts, Race Beat

Question #1: Warmth of Other Suns, 364 to end (you will have one of the following)
1. According to Wilkerson's examples, did those who left the South return much after leaving? Explain.

2. In the end, how did Wilkerson's migrants adapt to their new homes in cities outside the South?

Question #2: Race Beat, Chapters 1-11 (you will have one of the following)

1. Roberts and Klibonoff begin with Gunnar Myrdal's epic study of race relations, An American Dilemma. In the late 1930s, "no major publication had a news bureau in the South." Myrdal saw thought it critical that the story of segregation become a mainstream press story in order for change to occur. Between 1938 and Little Rock, what would it take for the national press to begin paying attention to the segregation and race violence of the South? (chapters 1-11 overall)

2. Between 1940 and 1954, how did the southern press--white and black, react to federal challenges to segregation? (chapters 2-5)?

3. How did voter registration in Mississippi and Emmet Till's murder and trial affect press coverage of the South? (Chapters 6 & 7)

4. Between the emergence of "massive and passive" resistance in 1955 and the events of Little Rock, how did the press react? To what extent did coverage of the South change, why or why not? (Chapters 8-11)

Question #3: Race Beat, Chapters 12-23 (you will have one of the following)

1. Between Spring of 1958 and Martin Luther King in Selma in 1965, how and why did the press coverage of race war in the South begin to change? (Overall significant points, Chapters 12-23)

2. With the replacement of Popham in 1958 and the unfolding of race war in Mississippi, Virginia, North Carolina, Alabama, Albany (Georgia), and back to "Ole Miss"--from Sit-ins, SNCC, court cases, the Albany Movement, and desegregation of the University, how and why did the press change its coverage? (Chapters 12-17)

3. How did political and violent events at Birmingham, Alabama reveal significant changes in press coverage on the homefront of the race war? (Chapters 18 & 19)

4. From Medgar Evers to Freedom Summer and Selma, how did coverage of the South change? Explain. (Chapters 20-23)

5. Said John Lewis, if "it hadn't been for the media--the print media and television--the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings, a choir without a song." Do you agree or disagree? Explain your reasoning.

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Quiz #3/ Thursday 3 November/ Wilkerson on Warmth of Other Suns to p. 363.

Question #1 (Part One & Part Two, "Beginings"):

1. Ida Mae Brandon Gladney, George Swanson Starling, and Robert Joseph Pershing Foster all left their respective homes in Mississippi, Florida, and Louisiana between 1937 and 1953. These three were part of the "Great Migration" from the South to the North. What were their reasons for leaving, and what was it that Gladney, Starling, and Foster gave up by moving North? What conditions in the South, examples from the Misissippi, Florida, and Louisiana South, provided motivation for leaving?

Question #2 (Part One & Part Two, "Beginings"):

1. Who was Ida Mae Brandon Gladney, and why did she decide to leave her mother and Mississippi?

2. Who was George Swanson Starling, and why did he decide to leave Florida?

3. Who was Robert Joseph Pershing Foster, and why did he decide to leave Louisiana?

Question #3 (Part Three & Four to 363):

1. What were their experiences in "crossing over" and landing in places such as Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles? How did they adapt?

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Quiz #2/ Wednesday 6 October Thursday, 30 Minutes

Reading Covered: Green, Death in the Haymarket

Question #1/ What happened at the Haymarket on May 4th 1886--succinctly explain these events. In the first part of the book, Green gives us background for these events--in this background, what three most significant points explain the strike and the bomb? (Chapters 1-7, 1-125)

Question #2/ Green explains the events of early May 1886 in great detail--what immediate events do you find in these pages most responsible for these events--from leadership to organizations and police, for example. (Chapters 8-12, 126-208)

Question #3 The aftermath of the Haymarket is just as momentous as the bombing itself. Concisely explain what happens to those tried. Then explain why--what are three most significant reasons for the events that followed. (Chapters 13-16 & Epilogue 209-320)

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Quiz #1/ Wednesday 15 September Thursday, 30 Minutes

Question #1: Horwitz on the South & Stegner on the West

1-What was Wallace Stegner's connection to the West; what is Tony Horwitz connection to the South? How does each define these regions, what three adjectives do you think they would use to define the South and the West? Use examples from reading to illustrate each point. (I will ask you about one, the South or the West)

Question #2: Horwitz & Stegner

2-What characteristics of the South does Horwitz find significant in the Carolinas? Explain and be sure to illustrate with two examples from each chapter and place. (Chapters 2-4, NC & SC)

3-What characteristics of the South does Horwitz find significant in Kentucky, Virginia, and Tennessee? Explain with two examples from each chapter and place (Chapters 5-8)

Question #3: Horwitz & Map Quiz

4-What characteristics of the South does Horwitz find significant in Mississippi and his second tour in Virginia? Explain with two examples from each chapter and place (Chapters 9 & 10)

5-What characteristics of the South does Horwitz find significant in Georgia and Alabama? Explain with two examples from each chapter and place (Chapters 11-15)

On a map, be able to find these Southern States, along with the western states discussed by Horwitz and Stegner. What are the main states they discuss? (the states in the South and West only)