Week 06

Class 1:

Familiarize yourself with Ida B. Wells-Barnett’s The Red Record.  https://archive.org/stream/theredrecord14977gut/14977.txt

Then read carefully:   “East St. Louis Massacre:  The Greatest Outrage of the Century.”  http://gildedage.lib.niu.edu/islandora/object/niu-gildedage%3A24051

Class 2:

“The New Slavery in the South:  An Autobiography:Georgia Negro Peon”.  http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/negpeon/negpeon.html

Paul Laurence Dunbar, “The Haunted Oak.” https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/44195