- Students read and article about lynching titled, The War on Telephone Poles. After reading they wrote a short reflection.
- Students learned about lynching and racial terror in the first half of the 20th century [below]
- Students discussed the value or non-value of viewing graphic images of lynchings (lynching postcards presentation below). They read this article about videos of police shooting today and discussed responses.
- I gave a lecture about the KKK, the film Birth of a Nation, and Black resistance. Here are my notes.
- 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.
Racial Terror in the Early 20th Century:
The Great Migration:
Postcards of Lynchings (photos captions here):
The Great Migration:
Postcards of Lynchings (photos captions here):
