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How did Moreno’s civil rights activism on behalf of Latinos compare with similar efforts promoting the interests of minority groups in America? What similarities or differences can you see?
Compare the suffrage photograph (Document P7-3) with Carrie Chapman Catt’s 1918 statement (Document 22-2) and Mary Brown Sumner’s article (Document 19-5). How do they illuminate the role that gender played in shaping women’s response to their political and social marginalization?
What do the documents in this set reveal about the ways that American identity has been debated by various groups in the decades between the Civil War and World War II? How have these debates related to economic, social, and cultural transformations that have occurred in society?
How does the historian assess the significance of factors such as race, class, gender, and religion in shaping individual and group identities?
To what extent are issues of identity central to the American experience? How much are the debates raised in these sources continuing concerns for Americans?