Using Twitter rules (280 characters or less), construct a four Tweet conversation between two of the different perspectives (African Americans, ethnic Mexicans, Jewish refugees, members of Congress opposed to expanded civil rights, and members of Congress supportive of expanded civil rights) reflected in the week's Primary Source PDF.
You will need to invent Twitter handles for your two individuals, and in the Tweets you write you will need to come up with at least four different hashtags (these can come in your first post or in subsequent posts).
Both of your characters must write four separate Tweets in your initial post, for a total of eight Tweets. Retweets are only allowed if you add something new.
In this Twitter conversation be sure that your characters assess the conflict between American war aims (to preserve and expand democracy abroad) and the denial of democracy to ethnic and racial minorities within the United States.
When you are making your follow up posts for your minimum of three posts they must also follow Twitter rules and remain in character for one of the four perspectives reflected in the readings. In each follow up post your two characters (use the ones you created for your initial post) need at least two Tweets each, or a minimum of four Tweets for each follow up post.
Your primary document readings for this week engage with several homefront social justice challenges:
1) congressional inability to ameliorate discrimination against African Americans;
2) congressional efforts to use immigrant ethnic Mexican labor in the U.S. Southwest;
3) and, congressional and executive unwillingness to address satisfactorily the Jewish immigration crisis before or during the war.
As you read the material, think about the following questions:
1) Why were a minority of lawmakers opposed to anti-lynching legislation?
2) Why were a minority of lawmakers opposed to anti-poll tax legislation?
3) How did these minorities still manage to block the two reform laws from being enacted?
4) What do these battles suggest about the integrity of American war aims?
5) What were the needs of Jewish refugees in the mid and late 1930s? How did the federal government respond? What were the arguments against helping Jewish refugees before 1941?
6) How did the needs of Jewish refugees change with the progression of the war? In what way or ways did U.S. policy change? In what way or ways did it stay the same?
7) Should the circumstances of African Americans, ethnic Mexicans, and Jewish refugees be lumped together in one category? Why or why not?