Freedom Summer 1964
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Summer initiative to register African American voters in Mississippi.
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Period: 20th Century
20th Century
Voices From the Plain of Jars: Life Under an Air War
Book — Non-fiction. Edited by Fred Branfman. 2013 (original edition, 1972). 196 pages.
Essays, drawings, and poems by Laotian villagers who survived almost 10 years of widespread, persistent, and devastating bombing during the Vietnam War in a covert operation in Laos.
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Essays, drawings, and poems by Laotian villagers who survived almost 10 years of widespread, persistent, and devastating bombing during the Vietnam War in a covert operation in Laos.
Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation
Picture book. By Duncan Tonatiuh. 2014. 40 pages.
Upper elementary school picture-book about the Mendez v. Westminster case to desegregate California schools.
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Upper elementary school picture-book about the Mendez v. Westminster case to desegregate California schools.
The Untold History of the United States DVD
Film. By Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick. 2014. 4 discs – 796 minutes.
TV series that re-examines various under-reported events of U.S. history since World War II.
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TV series that re-examines various under-reported events of U.S. history since World War II.
Trampling Out the Vintage: Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers
Book — Non-fiction. By Frank Bardacke. 2012. 848 pages.
A reappraisal of the political trajectory of Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers.
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A reappraisal of the political trajectory of Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers.
This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer
Book — Non-fiction. By Kay Mills. 2007. 390 pages.
First-hand accounts of Fannie Lou Hamer's emergence as a leader of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.
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First-hand accounts of Fannie Lou Hamer's emergence as a leader of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.
Brazil’s Dance with the Devil: The World Cup, the Olympics, and the Fight for Democracy
Book — Non-fiction. By Dave Zirin. 2016. 276 pages.
Examines the cultural, economic, and political context and impact of the World Cup and the Olympics on Brazil.
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Examines the cultural, economic, and political context and impact of the World Cup and the Olympics on Brazil.
Angel Island: Gateway to Gold Mountain
Book — Non-fiction. By Russell Freedman. 2014. 96 pages.
An account of Angel Island, California, the entry point for one million Asian immigrants in the early 20th century.
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An account of Angel Island, California, the entry point for one million Asian immigrants in the early 20th century.
The Great War: July 1, 1916: The First Day of the Battle of the Somme
Book — Non-fiction. By Joe Sacco. 2013. 54 pages.
Illustrated book depicting the horrific Battle of Somme, emblematic of a hideous war.
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Illustrated book depicting the horrific Battle of Somme, emblematic of a hideous war.
Risking Everything: A Freedom Summer Reader
Book — Non-fiction. Edited by Michael Edmonds. 2014. 250 pages.
Anthology of first hand accounts and primary documents from the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer Project.
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Anthology of first hand accounts and primary documents from the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer Project.
The Girl from the Tar Paper School: Barbara Rose Johns and the Advent of the Civil Rights Movement
Book — Non-fiction. By Teri Kanefield. 2014. 56 pages.
Illustrated book of a teenager who led a student walk out to protest substandard conditions at a Virginia high school in 1951.
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Illustrated book of a teenager who led a student walk out to protest substandard conditions at a Virginia high school in 1951.
Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Online Archive
Digital collection. Firsthand accounts and primary sources of the incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII.
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Moses, Robert “Bob” Parris
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Robert "Parris" Moses (born Jan. 23, 1935) is a voting rights organizer, educator, and founder of the Algebra Project.
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Sharecroppers Challenge U.S. Apartheid: The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
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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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+.
Freedom Summer
Film. Written, produced, and directed by Stanley Nelson. 2014. 120 minutes.
Documentary about 1964 Freedom Summer in Mississippi.
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Documentary about 1964 Freedom Summer in Mississippi.
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States
Book — Non-fiction. By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz. 2015. 312 pages.
Four hundred years of Native American history from a bottom-up perspective.
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Four hundred years of Native American history from a bottom-up perspective.
This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible
Book — Non-fiction. By Charles E. Cobb Jr. 2015. 328 pages.
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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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.
Hartman Turnbow
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Hartman Turnbow (March 20, 1905–August 15, 1988), was Mileston, Miss., farmer and fiery orator known for inspiring people during the Civil Rights Movement.
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Civil Rights Unionism: Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth-Century South
Book — Non-fiction. By Robert Rodgers Korstad. 2003. 576 pages.
Chronicles the rise and fall of the union that represented thousands of African American tobacco factory workers in Winston-Salem, N.C.
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Chronicles the rise and fall of the union that represented thousands of African American tobacco factory workers in Winston-Salem, N.C.
Thunder of Freedom: Black Leadership and the Transformation of 1960s Mississippi
Book — Non-fiction. By Sue [Lorenzi] Sojourner, with Cheryl Reitan. Foreword by John Dittmer. 2013.
Documents the role of unsung heroes in the voting rights struggle in Holmes County, Mississippi.
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Documents the role of unsung heroes in the voting rights struggle in Holmes County, Mississippi.
The History All Around Us: Roosevelt High School and the 1968 Eastside Blowouts
Teaching Activity. By Brian C. Gibbs. Rethinking Schools. 6 pages.
A teacher uses the activist history of Theodore Roosevelt High School in East Los Angeles to pose students the question: “What would you be willing to do to create change?"
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A teacher uses the activist history of Theodore Roosevelt High School in East Los Angeles to pose students the question: “What would you be willing to do to create change?"
William Loren Katz: A People’s Historian
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A brief biography based on an interview of historian and author William Loren Katz.
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Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama’s Black Belt
Book — Non-fiction. By Hasan Kwame Jeffries. 2010. 372 pages.
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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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.
On the Road to Voting Rights: Freedom Day in Selma, 1963
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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Howard Zinn’s first-hand account of Selma’s Freedom Day in 1963.