Book -- Non-fiction. Edited by Michael G. Long, foreword by Chris Hedges, afterword by Dolores Huerta. 610 pages. 2019.
Encounter the voices of activists sharing instructive stories through narrative and primary documents.
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Teaching Activity. By Adam Sanchez. 24 pages. Rethinking Schools.
A series of role plays that explore the history and evolution of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, including freedom rides and voter registration.
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Article.
Charles E. Cobb Jr. discusses the Civil Rights Movement and its lessons, and how they apply to current movements. 2017.
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Picture book. By Carole Boston Weatherford. Illustrated by Ekua Holmes. 2015.
Illustrated biography of Fannie Lou Hamer, activist for voting and economic rights from Mississippi.
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Book - Non-fiction. By James Forman. 1997.
Detailed description of the Civil Rights Movement by one of the central leaders.
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Article. By Hasan Kwame Jeffries.
History and significance of the Lowndes County Freedom Organization.
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Digital Collection.
Historical materials, profiles, timeline, map, and stories on SNCC’s voting rights organizing.
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Book - Non-fiction. Edited by William Sturkey and Jon N. Hale. 2015.
A collection and examination of the creative literary work of students published during 1964 Freedom Summer in Mississippi.
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Book - Non-fiction. Henry Hampton and Steve Fayer. 1991.
Oral histories of the Civil Rights Movement spanning three decades.
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Article. By Howard Zinn. Excerpt from Chapter 5 of You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train.
Howard Zinn’s first-hand account of Selma’s Freedom Day in 1963.
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Book - Non-fiction. By Hasan Kwame Jeffries. 2010.
History of the role that activists in Lowndes County played in spurring Black activists nationwide to fight for civil and human rights in new and more radical ways.
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Book - Non-fiction. By Charles E. Cobb Jr. 2015.
Cobb Jr. describes the vital role that armed self-defense played in the survival and liberation of black communities in America during the Southern Freedom Movement of the 1960s.
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Teaching Activity. By Julian Hipkins III, Deborah Menkart, Sara Evers, and Jenice View.
Role play on the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) that introduces students to a vital example of small “d” democracy in action. For grades 7+.
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Film. Written, produced, and directed by Stanley Nelson. 2014. 120 minutes.
Documentary about 1964 Freedom Summer in Mississippi.
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Book - Non-fiction. Edited by Michael Edmonds. 2014.
Anthology of first hand accounts and primary documents from the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer Project.
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Book - Non-fiction. By Kay Mills. 2007.
First-hand accounts of Fannie Lou Hamer's emergence as a leader of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.
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Profile.
Summer initiative to register African American voters in Mississippi.
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Article. By Howard Zinn. From Chapter 6 of You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train.
Zinn describes the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) voting rights campaign called Freedom Day in Hattiesburg, Miss.
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Digital Collection.
Extensive collection on the Civil Rights Movement and the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project of 1964.
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Film. Directed Connie Field and Marilyn Mulford. Written by Michael Chandler. 1994. 110 min.
The story of the Mississippi freedom movement in the early 1960s.
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Profile.
Brief biography of Ella Josephine Baker, 1903–1986, activist and civil rights organizer.
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Film clip. Voices of People's History.
SNCC's original speech to be delivered at the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom by John Lewis.
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Book - Non-fiction. By Cynthia Griggs Fleming. 1998.
Biography of Civil Rights Movement activist Ruby Doris Smith Robinson.
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Book - Non-fiction. By Julian Bond and illustrated by T. G. Lewis. 1967. 19 pages.
This "graphic novel" from the 1960s was written to provide a critical analysis of the Vietnam War in an easy to read format.
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Teaching Guide. Edited by Kathy Emery, Linda Reid Gold and Sylvia Braselmann. Foreword by Howard Zinn. 2008. 456 pages.
Readings and lessons on the 1964 Mississippi Summer Project.
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