Kobe's Lynching Project Glog

Lynching Mini Project - Robert May

Lynching Project: Katharine

Lynching Mini-Project: Mia Civitillo

Ty Banas Lynching

Lynching by Mason

Hunter's Ecprasis Poem

Lynching Mini Project- Max Smith-Ducati

Lynching Mini Project- Chris Beverly

Wooyoung's Lynching Graphs

Separate but Equal: My Man Langston, Plessy vs. Ferguson, & Executive Order 9981

“I, Too” by Langston Hughes (1925)

I, too, sing America.

I am the darker brother.

They send me to eat in the kitchen

When company comes,

But I laugh,

And eat well,

And grow strong.

Tomorrow,

I'll be at the table

When company comes.

Nobody'll dare

Say to me,

"Eat in the kitchen,"

Then.

Besides,

They'll see how beautiful I am

And be ashamed--

I, too, am America.

SOURCE: Langston Hughes, "I, Too," Collected Poems by Langston Hughes (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994).

 

 

Plessy vs. Ferguson

PBS has a terrific site titled The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow where we can learn about the landmark Supreme Court case, Plessy vs. Ferguson.

Click here for a quick video summarizing the significance of the case.

U.S. Supreme Court

PLESSY v. FERGUSON, 163 U.S. 537 (1896)

Justice Henry Brown delivered the majority opinion of the Court:

… The object of the [Fourteenth] amendment was undoubtedly to enforce the absolute equality of the two races before the law, but, in the nature of things, it could not have been intended to abolish distinctions based upon color, or to enforce social, as distinguished from political, equality, or a commingling of the two races upon terms unsatisfactory to either. Laws permitting, and even requiring, their separation, in places where they are liable to be brought into contact, do not necessarily imply the inferiority of either race to the other, and have been generally, if not universally, recognized as within the competency of the state legislatures in the exercise of their police power. The most common instance of this is connected with the establishment of separate schools for white and colored children, which have been held to be a valid exercise of the legislative power even by courts of states where the political rights of the colored race have been longest and most earnestly enforced.…

We consider the underlying fallacy of the plaintiff's argument to consist in the assumption that the enforced separation of the two races stamps the colored race with a badge of inferiority. If this be so, it is not by reason of anything found in the act, but solely because the colored race chooses to put that construction upon it. …

If the two races are to meet upon terms of social equality, it must be the result of natural affinities, a mutual appreciation of each other's merits, and a voluntary consent of individuals. …If the civil and political rights of both races be equal, one cannot be inferior to the other civilly or politically. If one race be inferior to the other socially, the constitution of the United States cannot put them upon the same plane.

Dark Laughter comic strip by Oliver W. Harrington, 1960

Source:  Library of Congress

Executive Order 9981

Source:  Truman Library

More resources:

•  Timeline for desegregation of the armed forces from the Truman Library

Activity:

Newspaper Blackout

 

Lynching Mini Project - Marie-Louise

Lynching Mini-Project: Sara Hibbitts

Lynching Mini-Project Sam Balka

Lynching Mini Project- Alessandra Angelini

Ariele's Lynching Poem

Lynching :: Strange Fruit, Without Sanctuary, & a Mini-Project

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)

Originally sung by: Billie Holiday

"Between 1882 and 1903, 2,060 blacks were lynched in the United States. Some of the black victims were children and pregnant women; many were burned alive at the stake; others were castrated with axes or knives, blinded with hot pokers, or decapitated."                                                 

Amistad Digital Resource, Columbia University

Lynching Resources:

Statistics & Timelines:

• Lynching in America:  Statistics, Information, Images [use this site for choice A]

Photographs:

• Without Sanctuary [use this site for choice B]

Ida B. Wells: 

• Biography of Ida B. Wells

"One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap." ~ Ida B. Wells 

• Video about Ida B. Wells

PBS Site about Strange Fruit

Lynching mini-project overview and rubric

  

Examples of projects from previous classes:

Danielle's ecphrasis My Fading Family

Jake's ecphrasis I'm Sorry

Sara's ecphrasis Bad Romance

How to post your glog correctly on the blog:

• Grab the embed code (not the URL) from your glog.  
• Go to NEW POST here on the blog (you'll need to be logged in to Blogger).
• Choose HTML instead of Compose
• Paste the embed code
• Change the percentage in the code:  CHANGE SCALE =100 to SCALE=75, CHANGE WIDTH=960 to  720, CHANGE HEIGHT=1300 to 975

The Jim Crow Era: How did early movies shape ideas about race & gender?

The Birth of a Nation

1915

190 minutes long

*fast fact* - first movie to be shown in the White House
*fast fact* - original title was The Clansman

Clip #1:

Clip #2:

Wondering how African-Americans and their allies responded?

Encyclopedia of American Race Riots by Walter C. Rucker and James N. Upton

Searcheeze

You are going to use Searcheeze to store, organize, and share resources for your research paper.  Today we want you to set up your Searcheeze account and learn how to use it.

First we'll watch this introductory video about Searcheeze.

Now to set up your account:

1.  Go to www.searcheeze.com

2.  Create an account with a username and password that you will remember

3.  Set up your topic

4.  Make your topic PUBLISHED

5.  Invite Kristen and Mr. Kelly to be collaborators so that we can help you!

The next thing you need to do is put the Searcheeze bookmarklet on your browser bar.  Follow the directions on Searcheeze.  You will want to repeat this on your home computer too!

Now you're ready to start searching for resources and adding them to your Searcheeze topic.  There are some really useful general sites for historical research that you should visit early on.  Be sure to check them out in the glog below.  

Research Paper - Statement of Purpose

EMAIL YOUR STATEMENT OF PURPOSE TO BOTH TEACHERS BY 7 PM ON WEDNESDAY 3/21!

A statement of purpose is a beefy paragraph or two which states, in some detail, what you want to learn about in your research project and how you plan to learn it.   As you can see in the example below, a statement of purpose often includes many questions.

Statement of Purpose Example

I will be researching the Crusades for my research paper.  I’ve often heard them mentioned when people talk about fighting in the Middle East now.  I’ve always been fascinated with the Middle East; this is an area of the world that I’d love to see someday.  I don’t know too much about the Crusades other than that it involved Europeans and Arabs and that they were fighting over the Holy Land.  This happened a long time ago, I think in the 1200-1300s.  I want to know why Christians and Muslims fought so hard with each other during the Middle Ages.  I want to know what exactly they were fighting about, how they fought, where they fought and what the results were.  What kinds of weapons did they use?  How did the Crusades affect life at home for both Europeans and Arabs?  Did any women fight?  What about children?  I also want to how, if at all, the Crusades have influenced Muslim-Christian relations today.  For example, did 9-11 have anything to do with the Crusades?  Is the Israel-Palestine conflict shaped by this history too?  Are we still fighting over stuff from the 1100s?  That is kind of what I have inferred from things people have said, but I want to decide for myself if this is true.

I will rely on primary and secondary sources for my research.  Because the Catholic Church was involved, I’m pretty sure I can find some documents from priests and popes that will relate to this topic.  I also think there are pictures of the weapons and armor that I can find, as well as maps.  My father used to teach a Sunday School class about the Crusades so I will also ask him for help.   He might know some good books that I can read.  I will also look on YouTube.  Even though it’s not always the most reliable, it helps me to visualize things and sometimes I can find documentary excerpts there.  Finally, I found a young adult book called Babylonne that takes place in the Middle Ages and involves events from the Crusades.  This always helps me to understand the history that I am trying to learn.  I am going to order the book from Barnesandnoble.com.

KONY 2012

Want to know more about the KONY 2012 movement that is exploding all over Facebook and Twitter?  Check out these links:

 

• KONY 2012 Invisible Children Web Site
• KONY 2012 Movement's Response to Critics
• Visible Children - KONY 2012, Viewed Critically by Grant Oyston
• Let's Talk About KONY by Daniel Solomon, Georgetown student and National Director of STAND
• The Problem With Invisible Children's "Kony 2012" by Michael Deibert, author of Democratic Republic of Congo:  Between Hope and Despair
• Kony 2012 and the politics of sending a brutal villain viral by Nicky Woolf, reporter for the Guardian

SPRING BREAK EXTRA CREDIT SPECIAL!
Visit the sites above and some others too.  Think through all sides as best you can.  Then respond to this question here on this blog (2-3 beefy paragraphs minimum):

SHOULD STUDENTS SUPPORT THE KONY 2012 MOVEMENT?  WHY OR WHY NOT?

[worth +10 pts on your next DBQ; ex. if you earn a 75%, you would get an 85%]

Teaching Project Reflection Assignment

Choose three of the following prompts.  Write one paragraph for each prompt (three paragraphs total).  It is okay if you want to combine two prompts in one (say #1 and #3 for example), but this will only count as one of your three required prompts and paragraphs.  Email your reflection to both Mr. Kelly and Kristen by Friday 3/9 at 10 pm!

1. I was surprised by...
2. I really enjoyed...
3. I am most proud of...
4. The hardest part was...
5. I wish...
6. I wonder...
7. My favorite moment was...
8. I learned...
9. If I could start all over, I would...
10. My advice to Kristen and Mr. Kelly if they do this project next year is...