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A teacher remembers 9/11 - Illinois Times, the capital city's source of news, politics, arts, entertainment, culture (opens the original)
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I was teaching at Southeast High School on Sept. 11, 2001. My American literature class of juniors had just read The Crucible. I was showing the class a clip from the movie when a colleague came to my door, motioned me into the hall and told me what had happened in New York. Two weeks earlier I had introduced The Crucible by telling the students about the fear of witches in the time period of the play and asked them to name something they thought would bring mass fear in our time. They had said
"Three Hot Days in August" - Illinois Times, the capital city's source of news, politics, arts, entertainment, culture (opens the original)
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Springfield is the home of Abraham Lincoln, known as the Great Emancipator. We should be proud of that. Yet, we must acknowledge that it was here, in his hometown, that a disturbing event occurred in 1908 – the race riot that lynched two innocent Black men, destroyed people’s homes and left a scar on our history. Out of this rose the formation of the NAACP, and today the truth of three days in August 1908 is being embraced. Austin Randolph, president of the Springfield Chapter of the NAACP, vice
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