Teacher Resources

Lesson Plans:

• "Domestic Terror": Understanding Lynching During the Era of Jim Crow
  From the PBS Series: The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow,
  http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/education_lesson7.html
• The Negro Holocaust: Lynching and Race Riots in the United States,1880-1950 by Robert A. Gibson
  http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1979/2/79.02.04.x.html
• It Happened Here
  Educators and community activists in Duluth, Minn., face the painful lessons of a 1920 lynching.
  http://www.tolerance.org/teach/magazine/features.jsp?p=0&is=33&ar=452
• Twelve Lines that Changed the World
  Activities shed light on the anti-lynching anthem, "Strange Fruit."
  http://www.tolerance.org/teach/activities/activity.jsp?p=0&ar=394

Websites:

• Lynching in America: Statistics, Information, Images
  http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/shipp/lynchstats.html
• Without Sanctuary: Photographs and Postcards of Lynching in America
  WARNING: Very graphic!
  http://www.withoutsanctuary.org/
• Lesson Plans for the Without Sanctuary materials (see above)
  http://www.chfestival.org/resources/content/lynchingintheamericansouthstudyguide.pdf