Primary Source Lab 5
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Dec 6, 2023
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Instructions:
read the document packet as instructed and answer the following questions. Most
answers will require several sentences to completely answer. Make sure to be as detailed and
specific as possible in your responses on the Worksheet.
*1 Read Document, “Returning Soldiers (1919),” and answer the following questions.
According to Du Bois, what hypocrisies in American life were made clear by African
American participation in World War I?
In the text it says that the whites do not want the blacks to be educated but instead want them to
be “servants, dogs, whores, and monkeys” then when they are those things they turn around
and call them stupid or unable to be educated. When the blacks try to get educated they shut
them down, when they don’t try to get educated they get called degenerate.
How would you feel if you were a Black veteran returning to the US South from France in
1919?
How I would feel if I was a black veteran returning is I would be demanding more respect. I
would be demanding higher pay, I would be demanding education, I would be demanding
equality because I put my life on the line. I am deserving of those things.
*2 Read Document, “The Case against the Reds (1920),” and answer the following
questions.
What crimes did Palmer accuse communists of committing?
He accuses the communists of committing robbery. He says “Robbery, not war, is the ideal of
communism”. He also says that “communism appears to be a mass formation of the criminals of
the world to overthrow the decencies of private life” and that communism “distorts our social
law”.
How did Palmer address the legal rights of aliens?
Palmer says “no alien, advocating the overthrow of existing law and order in this country, shall
escape arrest and prompt deportation”
What do you think would be the public response to such a statement today?
I think that the response today would be filled with mixed emotions. There are a lot of people
today who are American citizens because they were born in the United States but their parents
are not legal.
*3 Read Document, “The Flappers of the 1920s: Debating Bobbed Hair,” and answer the
following questions.
Which of the two women here presents the more convincing argument and why?
For me it is hard to decide which one of the two presents a more convincing argument because
I can see both points of view. I can see from Mary Garden’s point when she says that she
bobbed her hair for “growth, alertness, up-to-dateness, and is part of the expression of the
spirit”. I can see from Mary Pickford’s point when she says that she did not bob her hair because
her curly hair has become a part of her brand or is her trademark. I also agree with her when
she says that she uses her curly hair to be an inspiration for little girls. She says that everyone
is cutting their hair and the little girls are no longer seeing people with curly hair like them.
How are the words “progressive” and “conservative” being used by the women you read,
and what are those words meant imply in this context?
Mary Garden says that bobbed hair belongs to “the age of freedom, frankness, and
progressiveness”. Mary Pickford says that she is “by nature conservative and even a bit
old-fashioned”. For me this means that bobbed hair is new and fresh. It is the style that is in and
the next stage of improving women hairstyles. For those who choose to not bob their hair are
more old fashioned and don’t want to push the boundaries with what they do with their hair. Both
styles are nice and no one should feel pressured to cut their hair or not which both Garden and
Pickford state.
*4 Read Document, “The Great Black Migration,” and answer the following questions
According to these accounts, what role did racial discrimination play in encouraging
Black Southerners to move North?
Racial discrimination as well as fearing for their lives were the biggest reasons that black
southerners wanted to move North. The text says “these southern white people ar so mean and
they seem to be getting worse”. It also says that they are cruel and the blacks are scared to
even walk outside when it is dark.
Describe some of the economic hardships faced by Black Southerners.
Some of the hardships of the black southerners are they only get “a peck of meal and from three
to four lbs of bacon per week, and he is treated as a slave”. They also do not make enough
money to even move to the north. The jobs that the black southerners have are farmers, cooks,
barbers and blacksmiths and they cannot make a living out of these jobs.
Why might Southern elites have wanted Black people to remain in the South?
The southern elites wanted the black people to remain in the south so that they could get the
blacks to do all the work and pay them little to nothing. They also wanted the blacks to fight and
go to war for them so more black people die than the whites.
*5 Read Document, “Enter the New Negro,” and answer the following questions.
What did Locke mean by the “Old Negro” sensibility? How was the “New Negro” a
departure from that sensibility?
Locke is saying that the old negro is a big part of history. The text says ”The Old Negro…was a
creature of moral debate and historical controversy”. For the new negro they are encouraged to
focus on controversial issues and not let the past repeat itself.
In what ways did Locke see the flowing of African American culture as aiding the larger
quest for civil rights and social equality?
Locke saw Harlem was going to be a place of opportunity and a place where the american
negro can flow freely. It says that in Harlem “Negro life is seizing upon its first chances for group
expression and self-determination”. Locke hopes that Harlem becomes a race capital.
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