After reading the book and studying issues around capital punishment, Mary Scott's students at Skyline Hight School decided to express their views and make an argument against the death penalty. This film is a product of their work.
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ADDITIONAL READING:

• Wright, Richard. Black Boy. New York: Harper Perennial. (1993).
  
• Lauren, Paul Gordon. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
  
• Lee, Wanda M.L. (1999). An Introduction to Multicultural Counseling, African Americans in Counseling, (4) 73-87.
  

ADDITIONAL WEB RESOURCES:

• Lesson Before Dying Directory
  http://library.sfcc.spokane.cc.wa.us/Lesson.htm
• Lesson Before Dying Reading
  http://www.randomhouse.com/vintage/read/lesson
• Wright, Richard. Black Boy - Web Resources
  http://www.urbandreamsproject.org/
  language_arts/core/09/ wright/
• Civil Rights Act of 1964
  http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/vii.html
• National Civil Rights Movement
  http://www.ncrm.org.uk/

ORGANIZATIONS:

• NAACP: http://www.naacp.org/
• Stanford University Papers Project
  http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/

LINKS:

"Capital Offences" Death Penalty documentary (11 min)

QUOTE:

Strength to Love

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction…. The chain reaction of evil-hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars-must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation."
Martin Luther King Jr., 1963

IMAGES:

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project:
http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/