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Essay Topic 1
There was racial segregation in Chicago in 1919. How was segregation different in Chicago than in the South? What invisible lines of segregation were there in Chicago? In what way was Chicago as segregated as the South only manifested in different ways?
Essay Topic 2
A Few Red Drops is the story of a race riot in Chicago in 1919. Why is this a non-fiction, historical book rather than historical fiction?
Essay Topic 3
What a reader knows about events and characters is determined by the point of view in a book. What is the point of view in the book? How does the point of view influence what readers know about events and people?
Essay Topic 4
Ida Wells-Barnett believed that it was necessary to be as “alert as the watchman on the wall” (34). Under what circumstances did Barnett make that comment? What did she mean by that comment? What...
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