Please watch the following videos for Rosewood and Black Wall Street. Also read the article. Please answer all questions in complete sentences on your blog by Friday's class. Although there are several questions this assignment is short. Please remember that blogs are almost 1/3 of your grade and missing them does lower your grade. Also, we will meet in class on Friday.
Article: http://goo.gl/YY4kz5
1.
What were the two distinctions about Greenwood
that may have made its neighbors envious?
2.
Based on what we have learned about Africa why
do you think Greenwood was nicknamed “Little Africa”?
3.
Although we have not learned about Wall Street
why do you think Greenwood was called “Black Wall Street?” Is there another
place today in the United States that could possibly be nicknamed “Black Wall
Street?”
4.
How did the National Guard respond to the
massacre?
5.
How did the interviewees remember the Greenwood
community before the massacre?
6.
What was the name of the man who “assaulted” the
white woman? How does this lynching compare to the others we have read about?
7.
What did the interviewees remember the actual day
of the massacre?
8.
What do you think it took so many years to
“uncover” Rosewood?
9.
How did Ms. Minnie Lee remember the Rosewood
Massacre?
10. What
incident caused the massacre?
11. According
to Mr. Fred Kirklin how many man joined the mob? What did they do to those
running out of houses?
12. How
was John Wright remembered? Who was he?
13. Why
do you think Ms. Minnie Lee never told her family about Rosewood?
14. How
did the Greenwood community respond to the massacre? How do you think they were
able to find the strength to move forward?
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