Here’s how I want to answer this question, I want you to gather evidence that supports your answer that you come up with, in other words, your claim. In a similar fashion to the “weighing the evidence” activities that we have done, you will assemble at least five primary source documents and explain how they support your claim. Be sure to include the roots of the civil rights that you learned about in the video.
Set up a folder in Google docs called civil rights summative assessment and put it in your US History folder. Set …show more content…
“Blacks have made huge strides in high school education but still lag in college graduation rates. Their incomes have risen and poverty rates have declined, but a mammoth wealth gap remains, along with persistently high unemployment rates. So great has been the increase in political power that the black voter turnout rate surpassed that of whites in the 2012 presidential race, and the number of black elected officials has risen sevenfold. But while school segregation and workplace discrimination have declined, too many African Americans go home to segregated, often impoverished