Value: 25 points – each essay is worth a possible 12.5 points

Directions: Pick two (2) essays . Use your readings to answer each essay as thoroughly as possible. The maximum length of each essay should be no more than 2-3 pages (or around six paragraphs, including the introduction and conclusion). Total pages submitted should be 4-6 pages.

Due date: submitted in Blackboard by Thursday, October 14, 2021, by 1:30 pm.

Format:

**Microsoft Word** document when submitted in Blackboard

2-3 pages (or around six paragraphs, including the introduction and conclusion). Total pages

submitted should be 4-6 pages.

Standard margins

Double-spaced

12 Times New Roman Font

Proper citations — citations should be in MLA or Chicago Manual Style

NO Title Page or Bibliography/Work Cited page needed

*Clearly identify which essay questions you are answering

Pick 2 essay questions:

• Compare and contrast the frameworks introduced by Evelyn Higginbotham, Darlene Clark Hine, and Hazel Carby about the study of Black women’s history.

• Who are three black women who defied the “culture of dissemblance” practiced by the traditional Black Club Women and explain how each of those three women did so from 1890 to 1950?

• Explain three different ways that black women reconstituted black activist strategies between 1865 and 1940, providing three different black women as an example for each.

• Explain what you think were two of the greatest weakness and two of the greatest strengths in Black Club Women’s activism before the 1950s?

• Compare and contrast black women’s activism before the American Civil War with black women’s activism during the Reconstruction and early Jim Crow era? Site specific examples to support your points.

• Describe the theoretical approaches for black liberation proposed by one black woman before the Civil War and one black woman in the post-War era that contained global strategies.