Primary Source Activities: National Anti-Mob and Lynch Law Association Brochure
Author: Cindy Grover
Grade(s): 9, 10, 11, 12
Description
Allow students, in groups or individually, to examine the primary source linked under Resources to the right, while answering the questions below in order. The questions are designed to guide students into a deeper analysis of the source and sharpen associated cognitive skills.
Level I: Description
1. What do you see on the title page of this brochure?
2. How many pages are in this brochure and what is the size of those pages?
3. What kind of information is found on pages on 3-4?
Level II: Interpretation
1. What are the purposes and goals of the association described in this brochure? What is lynching?
2. What rights does the association think should protect the U.S. citizen against lynching?
3. What details indicate when and for whom this brochure was written?
Level III: Analysis
1. How does this brochure illustrate the legal rights of petition and assembly?
2. How might African-Americans and white Americans react differently to reading this brochure?
3. Why do you think the brochure quotes the people listed in pages 3-4?
Standards
- History 6-8, Benchmark G: Analyze the causes and consequences of the American Civil War.
- Indicator: Grade 8, GLI 11. Analyze the consequences of Reconstruction with emphasis on: b. Attempts to protect the rights of and enhance opportunities for the freedmen, including the basic provisions of the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution; c. The Ku Klux Klan and the enactment of black codes.
- History 9-10, Benchmark F: Identify major historical patterns in the domestic affairs of the United States during the 20th century and explain their significance.
- Indicator: Grade 10, GLI 9. Analyze the major political, economic and social developments of the 1920s including: c. African-American immigration from the South to the North; d. Immigration restrictions, nativism, race riots and the reemergence of the Ku Klux Klan.
