Slide 1Native Son by Richard Wright Slide 2 Richard Wright Born in 1908 (Mississippi) Grew up on same plantation that his grandparents had worked on as chattel Abandoned…

Slide 1 Slide 2 Truman arrives to address the annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1947, the first US president to do so…

Slide 1 Slide 2 “Strange Fruit,” performed by Billie Holiday 1956 Slide 3 Slide 4 Slide 5 John Foster Dulles, Eisenhower’s Secretary of State and advocate of “rollback”…

Phillips Exeter Academy Department of English READING LIST 2 0 0 9 - 2 0 1 0 - 2 - Asterisks identify texts that have been popular and used successfully in English courses…

Mississippi & Freedom Summer By: Adan Paz Room: 201 Background In the early 60âs Mississippi was the poorest state in the nation. 86% of non-white families lived below…

IMAGES FROM THE JIM CROW SOUTH With text and haikus by Richard Wright âI was building up in me a dream which the entire educational system of the South had been rigged to…

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Education In African American Literature Gwendolyn Brooks 1917-2000; born in Topeka, Kansas Began publishing poetry at 17 Published first widely acclaimed poetry book in…

The right to full legal, social, and economic equality. Institutional/Systemic Racism: any kind of system of inequality based on race. It can occur in institutions such as…

IB Parent/Student/Faculty Meeting April 24, 2014 Trojan Hall Introductions Principal â Dr. Meredith Foster IB Counselor â Bob Stauffacher IB Teachers Big Ideas Daphne High…