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African American Women's Resistance in the Aftermath of Lynching
(2019-12-16)
This thesis focuses on resistance strategies used by African American women in the aftermath of lynching in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It examines the ways in which those strategies were shared, ...
Lesson Plan
(2019)
Students will analyze the lynching of a young boy after his questionable conviction for the murder of a woman on a Waco cotton farm. His violent murder became the battle cry for the NAACP's campaign to usher in a national ...
Discussion Questions
(2019)
Students will analyze the lynching of a young boy after his questionable conviction for the murder of a woman on a Waco cotton farm. His violent murder became the battle cry for the NAACP's campaign to usher in a national ...
An African American Family in Segregated Dallas Lesson Introduction
(2019)
This lesson narrows in on a single family in Dallas during the 1940s and 1950s and asks students to look predict what their occupations and lives might be like. The family was more affluent than students might expect given ...
Deep Ellum: Portrait of a Community Lesson Introduction
(2019)
This lesson gives an in-depth look at how an 1930's WPA historian characterized the segregated community of Deep Ellum. Students are asked to analyze the reading and make connections to their own time.