1. Read Poem
What is the difference between looking through one end of a telescope and looking through the other?
What is Hughes saying in this poem?
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2. “Long View: Negro” By Langston Hughes
Emancipation: 1865
Sighted through the
Telescope of dreams
Looms larger,
So much larger,
So it seems,
Than truth can be.
But turn the telescope around,
Look through the larger end—
And wonder why
What was so large
Becomes so small
Again.

3. 4.6-Coming of Segregation

4. We will be able to explain how the failure of Reconstruction led to segregation.
Objective

5. Overturned convictions of three men in Colfax Massacre
Federal government powerless
State v. Cruikshank

6. Legal barriers to voting
Separating whites and blacks
Plessy v. Ferguson- segregation legal
Segregation

7. Which aspirations (hopes) for freedom did not become a reality for black Americans during Reconstruction?
Which aspirations became a reality during Reconstruction and then were lost? Which were achieved and sustained?
What choices were left for black Southerners by the 1890s?
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8. “The African Americans”
List the dilemmas faced and the choices made by Isaiah Montgomery.
“The African Americans”

9. “The African Americans”
What choices did Isaiah Montgomery make in order to establish mound Bayou?
What were the advantages and disadvantages of those choices?
What is your response to Montgomery creating the Bayou?
“The African Americans”

10. Segregation: the enforced separation of different racial groups.
Plessy v. Ferguson

11. Plessy v. Ferguson

13. Which hopes for freedom did not become a reality for black Americans during Reconstruction? Which hopes became a reality during Reconstruction and then were lost?
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