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The Laurel Grove cemetery is behind what was the Laurel Grove Baptist Church that burned down in 2003.

To help students think about these images, you can expand on the categories in the chart as follows:

Notice or observations: What do you notice? What symbols do you see?

Question: What do you want to know more about when you see the…

Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) was an African American poet, novelist, and playwright of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Though some of his writing used a Negro dialect, other writing does not use dialect. These more traditional poems…

One example of “the extraordinary resilience of black citizens, who individually and collectively found ways to endure, fight back and occasionally define their own destinies…”

Thomas Chatmon was born in 1919 and interviewed in 1994 at the…