National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) founded

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  Lesson 1: NAACP’s Anti-Lynching Campaign in the 1920s

  This lesson focuses on the constitutional arguments for and against the enactment of federal anti-lynching legislation in the early 1920s. Students will participate in a simulation game that enacts a fictitious Senate debate of the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill. As a result of completing this activity, students will gain a better understanding of the federal system, the legislative process, and the difficulties social justice advocates encountered.

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  Lesson 2: NAACP's Anti-Lynching Campaign in the 1930s

  In this lesson students will participate in a role-play activity that has them become members of a newspaper or magazine editorial board preparing a retrospective report about the NAACP's anti-lynching campaign of the 1930s. As the students analyze and synthesize a variety of primary sources, they will gain a better understanding of the reasons for the failure of anti-lynching campaign of the 1930s, the limits of liberal reform during the New Deal, and the NAACP's decision to shift its focus to a legal campaign to end segregation.

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  What Masks Reveal

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Abraham Lincoln, 16th U.S. president, is born

Charles Darwin, English naturalist, is born