What racial challenges did African Americans face in Chicago and how did they address them?

1) Based on your reading in Takaki, in your own words compare the experiences of African Americans who migrated to Chicago and Harlem, NY during the Great Migration. What racial challenges did African Americans face in Chicago and how did they address them? What intellectual and cultural movements in Harlem helped to foster Black pride? Do you feel life in the North was an improvement over life in the South? Support your analysis using examples raised in the text. Be thorough and specific in your answer.
2) Based on your reading of Rights, Power, and Equality (Canvas Reading12), in your own words summarize and compare the confrontation in Birmingham, Alabama and the Movement in Mississippi during the Civil Rights Movement. How were the approaches to activism utilized in Birmingham and Mississippi different? Which approach do you believe was more effective? Based on your viewing of Eyes on the Prize, how werethese differences effective in bringing about change during the Selma campaign?

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