Without Sanctuary and the Brown Decision

On Friday we looked at Without Sanctuary, a short film with images of lynchings put to the music of Billie Holliday as she sings Strange Fruit.  A different version of the images can be found HERE (although it has narration rather than the music). The song can be found HERE.  After responding to the images for our portfolio, we worked to answer some questions by reading excerpts from Hellhounds an essay by Leon Litwack.
On Monday, we focused on the legal strategy that the NAACP used in preparation for making the argument to overturn the Plessy decision in the Brown v. Board of Education Case.  Mr. Kramer used this PRESENTATION in order to tell the story of the strategy.  We closed class by reviewing some of the questions prepared about the Brown decision.