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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