Power & Politics
Here is where you can find all of the MAJOR materials and resources aligned with UNIT 2
note: not all resources will be utilized in class every year; however all resources CAN be used as supplements AND EXTRA CREDIT every year!
Major Works
FH confronting Chicago's history of Racial violence.mp4Facing History Presents Confronting Chicago's History of Racial Violence
Minor Works
"Enigma" Jessie Redmon Fauset
"Puzzled" Langston Hughes
"Democracy will not come" Hughes
"I, too" Hughes
"Harlem" Hughes
"Mother to Son" Hughes
"my dreams my works must wait til after hell" Gwendolyn Brooks
. . . and other Harlem Renaissance Poetry
"The Future of Race in America" Ted Talk by Michelle Alexander
"Do not go Gently into that Good night" Dylan Thomas
"The Message" Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
"Strange Fruit" Billie Holiday