Make sure that the essay is 1.5-2 pages, single space. Not citation or outside research is permitted. Any evidence of outside research will be considered plagiarizing. You should use the film and the power point lecture.

Important notes: 1) Ignore any instruction in the essay that refer to green book or time writing. This is an online class now.

2) Make sure in the essay that as part of the evidence you analyze each one of the 5 Court cases discussed in the film and how each one advanced the NAACP agenda . Explain what each of the cases introduced and resolved and how were they different from one another. ?

3) Make sure you go over the NAACP strategy, method of recruiting clients and organizing law suits. The role of the doll experiment and social science evidence, the role of important individuals in the film, and most importantly, what is the difference between Separate and Equal, both tangibly and intangibly.

Essay question:

Evaluate Richard Kluger thesis that the notion that “Separate but Equal” can never be equal is a matter of simple justice. Whether you agree or disagree with his thesis, trace the efforts (court cases and activism) of the NAACP as well as the legal campaign between 1930-1954 and beyond in trying to convince the country that segregation can never be equal regardless of the efforts by the state governments to provide equal but separate facilities to African Americans.

In the Thesis: You need to explain in your own words what is simple justice and whether the effort to transform public discourse (attitude) regarding separate but equal amounted to simple justice or evolved complex sense of right and wrong.

In the body paragraph, you tell the story of the NAACP civil rights agenda and changes in attitudes of the Supreme Court and other state courts, Black and white public opinion. In other words you tell the story.

Conclusion: Was it simple or evolved. As always, there is no right answer. It’s a persuasive essay.