OntheLapsofGodsReading

//On the Laps of Gods: The Red Summer of 1919 and the Struggle for Justice that Remade a Nation// by Robert Whitaker March 3, 2010, 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m., Lowell High School

**Resources**


 * Guided Reading Questions**

[|InstructionsforBookGroupPostingMarch.doc] Robert Whitaker the author of //On the Laps of Gods: The Red Summer of 1919 and the Struggle for Justice that Remade a Nation// draws upon numerous primary sources, or excerpts from primary sources (including letters, songs, photographs, political cartoons, speeches, trial transcripts, newspaper articles, conversations) to tell the story of sharecropping and life for African Americans in the “Jim Crow”/post-WWI era, the “Elaine [Hoop Spur] massacre,” and the resulting trial.
 * Discussion Posting **

Choose one of these primary sources (or primary source excerpts/quotations), provide a brief description of the source (again this simply may be a quote or primary source excerpt) and the page number where it can be found and discuss how you could use it with your students. Briefly describe how you could guide students to decipher the meaning and implications of this source (particular questions, activities, etc.) and the enduring understandings you want to impart.