Activity 4
The Case for Reparations – Ta Nehisi Coates
Answer the questions based on the article, The Case for Reparations. All answers
must be completely in your own words (that is, paraphrased). Copying directly
from or too closely to the original text – even just one answers – will result in a zero
grade for the entire assignment. Be sure to use complete sentences.
Section I
1. What two methods were used to keep African Americans from voting in 1920s
Mississippi?
a. One method was lynching in Mississippi per Theodore Bilbo.
b.
2. What is “debt peonage”? Why did so many African American farmers live in it,
and why didn’t they protest the conditions?
a. It is a debt that the black farmers had to their landlords, which was also
their primary merchant.
3. What were the reasons for the Great Migration?
