GRAPHIC ORGANIZER FOR CONCLUSION PARAGRAPH
ESSAY QUESTION:
Copy the thesis statement from the box below onto your conclusion paragraph graphic organizer.
THESIS STATEMENT:
Although the seeds of racial tension were sown in the abomination of slavery, issues, such as Jim
Crow Laws, the Civil Rights Movement, and developments in the last fifty years, some progress has been made on this controversial issue, but there is still much work to do.
RESTATEMENT OF
THESIS STATEMENT
Flip-flop the order of the thesis statement.
Transition + Summary of Slavery Paragraph
Transition + Summary of Jim Crow Laws
Paragraph
Although some progress has been made in the matter of racism in America, the history of slavery, Jim Crow Laws, the Civil Rights
Movement, and other developments in the last fifty years, our nation still remains divided over the issue of race relations.
At the heart of this division is the legacy left over from slavery and the lasting outrage over the treatment of human beings due only to the color of their skin.
Once slavery was legally abolished in 1865, rampant racism was still practiced under the authority of Jim Crow Laws, a legalized

Transition + Summary of Civil Rights
Movement Paragraph
Transition + Summary of Race Relation in
America Today
Paragraph
The “So-What?” Part:
What is in this essay that will benefit the reader? system of discrimination against African
Americans that claimed to offer the races
“separate but equal” protection under the law.
By the middle of the twentieth century, the black population had had enough of the legalized racism, and leaders such as Malcom
X and Martin Luther King emerged to press for full and equal rights under the law.
Fifty years after the Civil Rights Movement,
American has seen some substantial changes in the treatment of African Americans: reduced segregation and an increased awareness of the immorality of discrimination.
While there might be some who believe that issues relating to race in our country have been resolved, one only has to turn on the television to find that is not so. Until we come together as one nation under God, we can never fully fulfill the promise made by our fore-fathers—that all men are created equal and have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.