Final Exam Questions

Directions: Use the primary documents assigned for class to support the claims you make while answering the following questions.

How students organize their answers is open to them, but they should be able to account for the context, trigger, and aftermath of the three Harlem riots we studied.

More points will be awarded to students who incorporate more documents, and who make original connections in their analysis of the riots.



1. What were the unique circumstances and common causes of the 1935, 1943, and 1964 Harlem Riots?

2. What are the conceptual, historical, thematic, and/or special connections between the Harlem riots and previous riots we've discussed, read about, and written about in this class (both fictional and real)?

Extra Credit: Riot Docs

Students can receive extra credit for the class by making an appointment with the LaGuardia and Wagner Archives, requesting to see the Harlem riot documents, and selecting up to three (or more, if they want) documents to use with the final exam questions. Students that incorporate one document will receive one point, two documents two points, and three documents three points, on their final grade in the course. This might raise a student grade from an 85 to an 88, for example.

The key here is that students must select documents that we have not read as a class or been assigned to read as a class. The documents can be about the 1935, 1943, and/or the 1964 Harlem riots. 

To successfully use a document, they must: 1) introduce it to the reader by stating its title and basic information; 2) summarize it briefly for the reader, and 3) use it to support a claim they're making to answer one of the final exam questions.

Students that plan to incorporate extra credit documents can write at the top of their final exam something like, 'extra credit docs included,' or something like that, just to let me know to be aware of it.

Please ask any questions this coming week.

1964 Time Mag is posted...

Sorry for the delay...scanning issues again. Skip the mostly whacked out pictures and just read the text.

1964 Riot Readings

I'm waiting on the Time magazine scan (to be posted later tonight), but we're also responsible for reading the "1964 Baldwin" piece and the "1964 Wagner statement," both linked at right.

Board Notes from the Destruction of Gotham

Upon student request...

Blog this week

What caused the 1935 Harlem Riot?

Class Agenda 11.19

1. 1935 Harlem Riot documents

Images

Tulsa Race Riot

Video

2. Background 1943

Somewhat strange video
Detroit footage from 1934

3. 1943 Documents