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Read: Alaine Locke, “The New Negro” (1925)
What is Locke’s definition of ‘Negro’?
What is the result of “shedding the old chrysalis of the Negro problem”?
What or who are “Mammies.” Uncle Toms” and “Sambos?
Listen: Billie Holiday and Abel Meeropol, “Strange Fruit”
Try to listen to this for the first time with your eyes closed. Listen again while watching Holiday sing.
What is the subject of Strange Fruit? How do you think this subject played a role in the Great Migration?
