Social Studies
ESSAY
Caroline LeCount, Rebecca Cole, and Billie Holiday are powerful entry points into activism before the 1960s.
Students investigate:
LeCount’s role in desegregating Philadelphia streetcars (preceding Rosa Parks by 100 years).
Cole’s medical work supporting Black communities.
Holiday’s performance of “Strange Fruit” as protest through art.
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By Jordana Moore Saggese (2014)
Scholarly exploration of Basquiat’s coded imagery and racial politics.m description -
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