American History Assignment

**Jim Crow AmericaWriting Assignment:? ** This assignment is designed to accomplish twogoals:? (1) for you to think carefullyabout the experience of Americans during the age of Jim Crow racism andsegregation in the United States from the time of the Civil War until the CivilRights Revolution of the 1950s and 1960s; and (2) for you to function as ahistorian by using primary sources as evidence to understand and interpret thepast.? Your grade will depend on how wellyou meet these goals. The task here is for you to read the textualmaterial relevant to the subject, watch several films that will be shown inclass on the origins and history of Jim Crow over time, and then create thelife of a fictional character who lived through this era.? You will reveal the details of this person’slife in a series of letters (five to ten) written over the span of theindividuals life, a last will left by the individual, an obituary written bythis person’s family or friends or associates, and a brief biography written byyou as a historian based upon the evidence found in the letters, will, andobituary.? And it need not be a blackperson.? ? ## Deliverables Please take a look at the file attached.