Why did Paul Robeson (Rutgers College, class of 1919) become a civil rights leader and a labor activist?

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Part
1: 150 words Short answers.
Please write a one-paragraph explanation for any 3 out of the 4 key terms or people listed below. Your
answers need to define and discuss the key terms or people in the historical
context in provided sources.

1. Dred
Scott Decision (Chapter 10)
2. Freedmen’s Bureau( Chapter 12)
3.
Universal
Suffrage (Chapter 13)
4. Eight-Hour Movement (Chapter 13)

Part
2: 600 words Essay

Please answer any 1 out of the 3 questions below

1.
How
did women’s roles in the American workplace change by the mid-1800s? What options did women have in terms of employment?
How did women assert themselves as social actors during these years? Use evidence from Who Built America? Vol.
1 to support your answers.

2.
Some
historians have argued that the Civil War marked “the second founding of the
American Republic.” Assess the validity of this statement, being sure to back
up your argument with evidence from Who Built America? Vol. 1.

3. How
do the events of 1877—including the end of Reconstruction and the Great
Railroad Uprising—relate to themes about race relations, social class and labor
relations, and the possibilities for collective action in earlier moments in
American history that we have discussed in this course? Are these themes still relevant today? Use
evidence from 1877: The Grand Army of Starvation and Who Built
America? Vol. 1 to support your answers.

Part 3: 300 words essay

viewing of Paul Robeson:
Here I Stand

answers these questions:
Why did Paul Robeson (Rutgers College, class of 1919)
become a civil rights leader and a labor activist?
How did communism shape his
politics?
Why did Robeson remain steadfast in his beliefs despite his
career suffering by the late 1940s and 1950s?
Are there other current
actors, musicians, artists, or other celebrities who are politically engaged
like Robeson was?

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film:

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