Assignment:
1. Technical and Professional Writing
Write a proposal letter of 1 to 2 pages to a respected community figure asking him or her to deliver a lecture and dinner speech at your annual festival. Follow the proposal letter guidelines explained in your assigned readings for this unit.
2. Diversity in American Life
For assistance with your assignment, please use your text, Web resources, and all course materWeekly tasks or assignments (Individual or Group Projects) will be due by Monday and late submissions will be assigned a late penalty in accordance with the late penalty policy found in the syllabus. NOTE: All submission posting times are based on midnight Central Time.
Your paper should discuss the state of race relations in the United States prior to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It should also discuss the political environment that led to the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Additionally, please include a response to the following in your analysis:
- What is the purpose of this law?
- What groups does it protect? What groups does it not protect?
- How were the Jim Crow laws tested during this time period?
- What is the U.S. Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson about? Is the rule established in the Plessy case still the rule today?