Our fellow man

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Our fellow man

• Make parallels
• Report historical facts through written,
  iconographic and oral documents
• Introduce American writers and study a text
• Create an atmosphere to talk about an experience
• Analyze a poem, write and declaim your own poems

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Historical facts US map for help

• 1619 First slaves taken to North America
• 1776 Declaration of Independence
• 1789 the American Constitution Click here
• 1830s creation of the character of Jim Crow
• 1861-1865 American Civil War or Secession War
• 1863 Emancipation Proclamation
• 1866 creation of the Ku Klux Klan
• 1865-77 Reconstruction (13th, 14th, 15th
  Amendments)
• Click here
• 1898 legalization of Jim Crow Laws (Click on
  picture)
• 1950-60s Civil Rights Movement

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Fighting Jim Crow Laws Matching exercise
Listen to testimonies of the Jim Crow era and
complete your file Click here
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Strange Fruit by Billie Holiday

• Southern trees bear strange fruit
• Blood on the leaves
• Blood at the root
• Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze
• Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees
• Pastoral scene of the gallant south
• The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth
• The scent of magnolia sweet and fresh
• Then the sudden smell of burning flesh
• Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck
• for the rain to gather
• for the wind to suck
• for the sun to rot
• for the tree to drop
• Here is a strange and bitter crop
• Composed by Abel Meeropol (aka Lewis Allan)

videoclip
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Black leaders

• Frederick Douglass (1818-1885)
• Juliann Jane Tillman
• Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)
• W.E.B. Dubois (1868-1963)
• Rosa Parks (1913-2005)
• Martin Luther King (1929-1968)
• Malcom X (1925-1965)
• Choose your partner and your leader, make
  research and present him / her to the class

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The Civil Rights Movement

• 1954-55 Segregation in public schools outlawed
• 1955 The Montgomery, Al. bus boycott
• 1963The March on Washington
• Listen to MLK's speech
• 1964 Civil Rights Act
• 1960s Beginning of Affirmative Action

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Afro-American writers

• Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)
• Langston Hugues (1902-1967)
• Click on his picture
• Richard Wright (1908-1960)
• James Baldwin (1924-1987)
• Maya Angelou (1928- )
• Toni Morrisson (1931- )
• Alice Walker (1944- )
• Click on her picture
• Angela Davis (1944- )
• Now listen to poems and get some inspiration to
  create and declaim your own poem Click here

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Racism today

• Testimonies of racism today
• click on the picture to listen to "You are not
  an American", an extract from American Chica by
  Marie Arana
• Racism seen from the outside
• Listen to The Color of Water, an extract from the
  novel by James McBride
• How to fight racism today
• Listen to Carl Van Horns point of view and
  complete the script of his interview
• Learn about poetry against racism and poetry
  contests