In need of assistance with comparing and contrasting civil and political rights.
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Political and Civil Rights in the 1920s of the group you selected in week one of this
course (AFRICAN AMERICANS) with that of another of the groups (WOMEN)
examined in this course as of 1924. In your essay compare and contrast:
The constitutional nature of political rights (or the lack of these rights) for
these groups.
For this component of your essay, reflect on the U.S. Constitution
as originally written, pertinent constitutional amendments (e.g. 13th,
14th, 15th, and 19th amendments
The process that these groups used in their fight for political rights and
the challenges that they faced.
Examine how these groups faced challenges with regard to civil rights
in this period. Examine specifically the relationship between social
pressures, such as discrimination, and political rights for each of these
groups
3-4 body paragraphs that compare and contrast the experience of both groups
and where they stood with regard to political and social acceptance in 1924, and
then a conclusion which sums your argument and your main points.
RESOURCES:
Gidlow, L. (2018). The sequel: the Fifteenth Amendment, the 19th Amendment,
and southern black women’s struggle to vote
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. The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 17(3), 433-449. https://
doi.org/10.1017/S1537781418000051
Materson, L. G., & Trotter, J. W. (2018). African American urban electoral politics in
the age of Jim Crow
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. Journal of Urban History, 44(2), 123–133.
And any additional resources you may want to use.