For the third week of Black History Month 2024, here is the fourth lesson of five on the life and times of the British Young Adult novelist Alex Wheatle. I open this lesson with this Cultural Literacy worksheet on the Battle of Britain.
This lesson deals with the aftermath of the New Cross Fire, which is collectively remembered in England as the New Cross Massacre. The centerpiece of this lesson is this chapter from Darcus Howe: A Political Biography (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022), “13 Dead and Nothing Said.” This is a fifteen-page article, and I prepared this excerpted and adapted version of it. Finally, here is the comprehension and analysis worksheet that attends the reading.
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