2. Learning Objectives Explain how discrimination towards black Americans continued after the abolition of slavery

3. How did discrimination continue towards black Americans? You will be researching four areas of persecution and feeding back to your group KKK Voting Rights Sharecropping Jim Crow Laws

4. Listen to the following song What lyrics / ideas can you hear? What do you think this song is about? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QPD0- _qPMI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QPD0- _qPMI

5. Southern trees bear strange fruit, Blood on the leaves and blood at the root, Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze, Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees. Pastoral scene of the gallant south, The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth, Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh, Then the sudden smell of burning flesh. Here is fruit for the crows to pluck, For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck, For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop, Here is a strange and bitter crop. Strange Fruit – Billie Holiday (April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959)