Use the Oshinsky chapter and the piece on “Red Handed Murder” to list two ways that black people were kept in slave-like conditions and denied economic and social justice.

Use the Oshinsky chapter and the piece on “Red Handed Murder” to list two ways that black people were kept in slave-like conditions and denied economic and social justice.

(You could think about violence, police practices, etc. explain how each of your choices ensured that blacks would not prosper.)

Tell me why President Johnson didn’t allow the “40 Acres and a Mule” policy to happen.

This should be one to one and a half pages in length, double spaced.

Primary Sources:

Butler on Self Emancipation 1861:

Stephens on Confederate Constitution:

Texas Secession Document

(See Attached File)

Sojourner Truth, Black Women’s Freedom after Slavery

http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/sojournertruthstirring.html

Martin Delaney, Advice to former Slaves

http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/delanyadviceformerslaves.html

James Monroe Whitfield, “America”

http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/whitamer.html

Reconstruction Amendments:

http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/CivilWarAmendments.htm

“40 Acres and a Mule”

http://www.theroot.com/the-truth-behind-40-acres-and-a-mule-1790894780

“Red Handed Murder…” (1887)

http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/redhandedmurder.html

“Colored Farmers’ Alliance” (1891)

http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/moorecoloredfarmersalliance.html

Article and Video for Reparations Discussion:

Ta Nehisi Coates on the Case for Reparations:

Reparations Infographic (I also have attached this as a PDF):

http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/make-it-right/infographic-40-acres-and-a-mule-would-be-at-least-64-trillion-today