- Students read and article about lynching titled, The War on Telephone Poles. After reading they wrote a short reflection.
- Students then viewed a series of photographs of lynchings and read the captions aloud.
- I presented in formation and statistics on lynchings as well as ways in which blacks resisted mistreatment and discrimination [below].
- Students viewed artist Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series and took notes on factors influencing the Great Migration of blacks from the South to the North. Students categorized factors as either PUSH or PULL.
- To finish students began reviewing and comparing the lives and strategies of black laeaders Marcus Garvey, Booker T. Washington, and W.E.B. Dubois.
Lynching in the United States:
Strange Fruit:
