The impact of the Cold War on the Brown v. Board case.
Assignment Directions
Complete reading assignment
Write and submit a short Word document (roughly 400 to 500 words, single or double-spaced) that fulfills the following prompt:
Based on the readings from DeParle, Dudziak, Kinzer, Coontz, Dicker, and Grandin, write a response that discusses and analyzes two or three out of the following five:
The impact of the Cold War on the Brown v. Board case.
The long-term impact of government-imposed housing segregation on African Americans.
America’s post-WWII/New Deal “consensus” and the critics/criticism of this consensus (from Grandin).
Issues surrounding gender (women in the workforce and/or women in the domestic sphere), feminist/women’s movements, the family, and/or suburbia
The motivations, actions, and justifications for the U.S. coup against Mossadegh in Iran.
Note #1: Please use at least one quote from the readings to support your analysis.
Writing Directions
All writing assignments MUST be submitted as Word documents.
If you don’t use Word, your word processor can still save documents as Word documents. Go to “Save As,” scroll to locate Word (.doc or .docx), click “Save.”
All writing assignments should have your name and a brief title indicating the assignment at the top of the first page.
This assignment is informal – but it should have basic elements of organization, such as:
It should contain full sentences written in paragraph(s) form in an organized fashion.
Think BEGINNING, MIDDLE, and END
Each sentence should have a beginning, middle, and end.
Each paragraph should have a beginning, middle, and end.
The short response as a whole should have a beginning, middle, and end.
Make sure you provide a brief parenthetical citation (author last name, page number) for your quotations.
Quotes should be no longer then 3 sentences — please do not quote full paragraphs. Instead, choose the most important part
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