Questions and Topics We Can Help You To Answer: 

Write an essay in which you describe how the movement for African-American rights changed between Reconstruction and the rise of the Black Power Movement in the late 1960s.  What were the main goals of each part of the movement?  Can we think of the African-American Civil Rights movement of the 1960s as a “Second Reconstruction”?  If yes, why; if no, why not?

Make sure to include detailed descriptions (who, what, when, where, why, and the significance or historical context) of 5-10 of the following terms:

Wade-Davis Bill            Reconstruction Amendments (13th, 14th, 15th)
Carpetbaggers            scalawags            Compromise of 1877
Freedmen’s Bureau        sharecropping            Ku Klux Klan
Civil Rights Act of 1964        Voting Rights Act of 1965
March on Washington        Martin Luther King, Jr.
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC)
Selma march
Mississippi Freedom Summer Project
Black Power movement