Analysis
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Historical Context
Jim Crow
Smithsonian:
Lynching in America
Segregation
Propaganda -
information used to promote a particular point of view....
What is the purpose of propaganda?
Biased?
Can it be factual?
How does it work?
Discussion:
Give examples.
Can it be used for good?
Born on July 16, 1862, in Holly Springs, Mississippi
Teacher, journalist and public speaker.
NAACP
Led an anti-lynching campaign
Lynching: A Media War
A Coon Alphabet: Stereotypes & Caricatures of the worst kind
Discussion:
How are African Americans characterized in the book?
What stereotypes do you see right away
How does it reinforce ideologies that could allow segregation and lynching to occur?
Who is the audience of this book?
What is the purpose?
A Sunday Morning in the South
Georgia Douglas Johnson
What happens to the main character?
How is the lynching carried out?
What is the purpose of this play?
Ethics of Living Jim Crow
Richard Wright
In your own words describe Wrights experiences
How does it relate to ideas of the "double conciousness"?
What types of stategies does Wright use to cope?
What is purpose for writing this?
Black Leadership in the Past
Martin Luther King
Born, 1924
Civil Rights Leader
"Poor People's Campaign"
The Martin Luther King You Don't See on TV
Malcolm X
Born, 1925
Human rights activist
Muslim, religious fundamentalis
7 Things You Don't Know about Malxolm X
Malcolm X Speech After Returning from Mecca
Angela Davis
Born, 1944
Educator & Activist
Prosecuted for conspiracy for purchasing firearms
Huey Newton
Born, 1942
Educator & Activist
Founder of the Black Panther Party
Using Media to Fight Back
Anti-Lynching Campaigns
Pamphets
Speeches
Anti-Lynching Task Force
Anti-Segration & Civil Rights
Sit-ins and Public Protest, Marches
Televised Speeches
Pictures and News Articles
Black Power
Televised Speeches, Protests
Fashion statements
Shock campaigns
Black Lives Matter
Marches, protests
Propaganda, slogans
Organized campaigns (t-shirts)
Abolistionist Movement
Written and Oral Slave Narratives
6000 Published Articles
Pamplets
NAACP Anti-Lynching Imagery (Library of Congress)
NPR: Power of Imagery/Civil Rights
Civil Rights Black Power & Black Lives matter: case Studies in Ideas of Protest Portrayals
Civil Rights Images/Slide Show
James Baldwin "Double Conciousness" (4.00)
The Dawn of the Black Power Movement
Katheen Cleaver – Black is Beatiful
A History of Black Lives Matter Movement
Born, 1924
Writer, Activist, Intellectual
"Fire Next Time"
Citizen (Claudia Rankine)
Hurricane Katrina
"Tolerance for Black Pain" - Slate
James Craig Anderson
New York Daily News – 4 men convicted of hate crime
Think Progress "Brutal Jim-Crow Style Lynching"
Travyon Martin
Trayvon Martin Timeline of Events (CBS News)
NPR – Trayvon Martin National Story
Jena Six
Stop & Frisk
What is Rankine saying about the issues and the coverage of the issues by the media?
How does her work attempt to "lift the veil" or expose the Dubois's "double conciousness"?
Readings for Next Week
The Negro Digs Up His Past – Schomberg
The Negro in Paris - Dubois
National Gallery of African American Artists
Words With Wings (Poetry & Art) - Rochelle
