Pupils analyze a variety of primary source materials related to lynching (news articles, letters written to or written by prominent Americans, pamphlets, broadsides, etc.) in order to assess the effectiveness of the anti-lynching...

To continue their study of the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the beginning of the civil rights movement, class members watch the YouTube video of Billie Holiday singing "Strange Fruit" as an introduction to an examination of...

Explore Marylanders, Eubie Blake, Billie Holiday, Cab Calloway, and Chick Webb.

Students explore jazz and its origins by focusing on the people in which Jazz came from.