Why was the Harlem Renaissance and Marcus Garvey controversial?
What will be an ideal response?
African Americans were divided on the degree of militancy with which to fight discrimination and oppression. Du Bois urged Harlem Renaissance artists and writers to extoll African American culture and to use their art to challenge the status quo, while many simply wanted to express or share their experience; meanwhile, white racists and supremacists found blacks' artistic endeavors overly prideful and used violence to keep African Americans "in their place." Marcus Garvey's open accusation of white "crimes against the race" and his proposed separatism appealed to and aroused African Americans' racial pride as well as entrepreneurship. Others criticized Garvey for arousing racial animosity and making racial integration, assimilation, and equality more difficult.
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A) He refused to pardon Richard Nixon over his involvement in the Watergate scandal. B) He proposed that draft evaders during the Vietnam War be given amnesty in order to help heal the wounds of Vietnam. C) He supported tax cuts as a means for helping generate a stronger economy. D) He vetoed a number of federal spending measures, which angered Democrats.
Small shop owners considered which of the following a threat?
A. unions B. banks C. department stores D. consumers
The conflict that developed between East and West Pakistan, and eventually led to the establishment of the state of Bangladesh, was caused by
a. competition over internal development of the nation's natural resources. b. differences in language, history, and ethnic tradition. c. many years of international warfare between the two regions. d. the demand of the people of East Pakistan to establish an independent Marxist state. e. both b and c
In the debates over ratification, the Federalists argued that the Constitution
A. would solve the immigration problems of the nation. B. was merely a temporary means to regain stability. C. would protect the nation from itself by providing a system of checks and balances. D. safeguarded individual freedoms through its built-in Bill of Rights.