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Strange Fruit, famously sung by Billie Holiday, powerfully condemns lynching, popular in the South following the Civil War. The chilling lyrics and intonation can incite student discussion on lynching and launch an exploration into its causes, its spectators, and its social effects, i.e. the Great Migration, the rise and fall of the KKK. -
1voteTwain's Pudd'nhead Wilson, a complicated look back on the the slave-owning South from the perch of Reconstruction's failure, can be used in a humanities class focusing on the end of Reconstruction. As a complementary text, PW would provide students with the pessimistic outlook on race relations, social inequity, and national identity held by some observers as America headed into the 20th century
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