Assignment Overview
This writing assignment interrogates the ways that people from different parts of the US and other countries such as Great Britain understood the intersections between race, gender, and class historically.

Deliverables

Written responses (300-400 words) to exercise questions

Assignment Details

Perform the following tasks:

Step 1: Watch Making a Way Out of No Way (1897-1940): The African Americans Many Rivers to Cross.  A link is available in the module.  At a minimum, watch the first 13 minutes.  In particular, pay attention to the material on Ida B. Wells.  (Be mindful that about 7 minutes in in the section entitled Jim Crow Laws the film shows disturbing archival photos of lynchings dont watch this with small children around)

Step 2: Read Parkers article, Desiring Citizenship (in this module). 

Step 3: Answer one of the following questions.

Use a word processor to write your response to one of the following questions (please don’t all select the first question … let’s mix it up a little!):

Making a Way Out of No Way suggests that Ida B. Wells talked about sexuality anxiety as an important component of lynching.  What did Wells mean by this?  You might do some additional research into her book Southern Horrors, if interested, though Parker also addresses this topic in the article.
Turning to Parkers article who was Frances Willard?  Why did she and Wells disagree so strongly?
Ida B. Wells subsequently went on a speaking tour in Great Britain.  If youre interested, you can do some additional research on this topic, though its not necessary since Parker discusses it, too.  Why did Wells go to Great Britain?  What were the results of her British agitation?

https://hs1.farmingdale.edu:2208/watch/making-a-way-out-of-no-way-1897-1940