The Backlash Blue
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Who But the Lord
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Black Panther
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Dream Deferred
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Christ in Alabama
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Mississippi
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Death in Yorkville
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Birmingham Sunday
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*Klu Klux Klan
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Children’s Rhymes
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*Dinner Guest: Me
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Northern Liberal
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*Merry-Go-Round
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Jim Crow Car
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*One-Way-Ticket
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*The South
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Jim Crows Last Stand
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Freedoms Plow
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I Dream a World
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World War II
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Green Memory
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Mother In Wartime
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Official Notice
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War
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Jim Crow’s Last Stand
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Bequmont to Detroit
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The Colored Solider
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Dear Mr. President
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Southern Negro Speaks
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NAACP
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How About It, Dixie
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Dixie Man to Uncle Sam
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Poem to Uncle Sam
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Message to the President
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Crow Goes, Too
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Just an Ordinary Guy
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Total War
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Will V-Day Be Me Day Too Justice
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August 19th
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Ballad of Ozie Powell
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The Mitchell Case
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Kids Who Die
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To Captain Mulzac
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Birmingham
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Bombings in Dixie
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Ballad of Harry Moore
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Judge William Hastie
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Brotherly Love
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Final Call
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Demonstration
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Panther
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Freedom
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The South
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Ballad of Sam Solomon
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Freedom Train
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Black Seed
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*Students can listen to Langston Hughes read these poem with commentary (see audiotape in reference list)
Collaging the Past
Jacob Lawrence, Shelia Hamanaka, and Dorthea Lange all share one thing in common aside from being artist: they are historians. They used art to capture the historical experiences of their subjects.
Now you will have the opportunity to do what Lawrence did with African American history and what Hamanaka did with Japanese-American history. After you have researched your own cultural history, construct a collage that reflects the experiences of your ethnic group. Your collage can be based on a particular theme or event. Your collage can present a certain message or lesson. You may consult a book of symbolism to include important symbols in your collage.
Materials
paper; magazines; newspaper; computer generated images; fabric; markers; paint; crayons; pencil; glue; poems; letters; word clipping; and scissors.
Evaluation
You will be evaluated based on having completed a written paper explaining what your collage depicts and on creating a historically rich collage.
Literary Devices
Onomatopoeia
: words that sound like what they mean; a word to represent or imitate natural sounds (examples: buzz, crunch, gurgle).
Assonance
: last word in each line rhymes with last word in another line (example: would/should).
Simile
: stated or direct comparison between two often unrelated things; uses like or as for a signal word to show the comparison being made (example: fast as lightening).
Metaphor
: An implied comparison between two unrelated or unlike things without using like or as (example: Death is a thief in disguise).
Personification
: giving an inanimate (not living thing) human characteristics (example: night skipped away).
Analogy
: Comparison\juxtaposition between of two things (example: caged bird\free bird).
Senses
: words and images appeal to sense of touch, sight, smell or hearing (example: bright red mango/ sending sweetness into Caribbean air/ slushy, wet, syrup in my welcoming mouth).
Great Migration Note Taking Sheet
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1. What caused the migrants to leave the south?
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2. How did the migrants travel?
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3. Did migrants face any opposition when leaving?
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4. What did the migrants seek in the North?
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5. What benefits did the migrants find in the North?
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What types of discrimination did migrants find in the North?
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7. What types of living conditions did the migrants find in the North?
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8. What types of jobs did the migrants find in the North?