Book — Non-fiction. By Jacqueline Houtman, Walter Naegle, and Michael G. Long. 168 pages. 2019.
A biography of antiwar and civil rights activist Bayard Rustin.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Mike Selby. 208 pages. 2019.
This book reveals the histories of grassroots "freedom libraries" that were at the heart of the Civil Rights Movement in the Deep South and tells the stories of courageous people who operated and used them.
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Film. Produced and Directed by David Shulman. Narrated by Danny Glover. 82 minutes. 2015
Documentary about the pivotal role played by Black landowning families during the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi who controlled over a million acres in the 1960s.
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The Bristol Bus Boycott began in England, inspired by the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
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Nobel Prize-winner Linus Pauling and Ava Helen Pauling joined a march in front of the White House to protest the resumption of U.S. atmospheric nuclear testing.
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William Lewis Moore, a white postal worker from Baltimore, was murdered on the road in Alabama during a one-person march for racial justice.
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Book -- Non-fiction. By Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick. Adapted by Susan Campbell Bartoletti and Eric S. Singer. Vol 1. 400 pages. 2014. Vol 2. 320 pages. 2019.
These are two volumes of illustrated histories, adapted for students from a documentary book and film of the same name.
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The 1968 Fair Housing Act, was signed into law after years of struggle and grassroots organizing.
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Little Bobby Hutton (age 17) of the Black Panther Party (BPP) was shot dead by the Oakland police.
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Nine protesters smashed glass, hurled files out a fourth floor window, and poured blood on files and furniture at the Dow Chemical offices in Washington, D.C.
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A cab driver, a day care provider, and two professors broke into an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, and stole more than 1,000 classified documents.
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Two U.S. merchant seamen mutinied against the captain and crew aboard the S.S. Columbia Eagle, as it crossed the Pacific during the Vietnam War.
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To protest the police murder of Jimmie Lee Jackson and for voting rights, more than 600 people began a peaceful march from Selma to Montgomery.
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The Supreme Court ruled 7-2 in Tinker v. Des Moines that students do not “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.”
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Book – Fiction. By Alice Faye Duncan. Illustrated by R. Gregory Christie. 2018. 40 pages.
A historical fiction picture book that presents the story of nine-year-old Lorraine Jackson, who in 1968 witnessed the Memphis sanitation strike.
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About 250 Sioux Indians, led by members of the American Indian Movement, converged on South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Reservation, launching the famous 71-day occupation of Wounded Knee.
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The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) sent four volunteers to Rock Hill, SC to sit-in.
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More than 450,000 New York City school children boycotted school as part of a protest for quality schools for Black and Latino students.
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El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X) was assassinated, just weeks after speaking in Selma.
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Teaching Activity. By Adam Sanchez and Jesse Hagopian. 33 pages. Rethinking Schools.
A mixer role play that introduces students to the pivotal and largely untold history of the Black Panthers.
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Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman elected to Congress, opened her historic campaign for President.
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Patricia Stephens Due was arrested in the segregated lobby of the Florida Theater in Tallahassee.
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The Georgia State House of Representatives refused to seat elected state representative Julian Bond due to his public statements against the Vietnam War.
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When asked at a White House luncheon about "juvenile delinquency," Eartha Kitt responded by talking about the root causes of rebellion, including the Vietnam War and the draft.
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Teaching Activity. By Wayne Au. 7 pages. Rethinking Schools.
How students can use the Black Panther Party's Ten Point Program to assess issues in their own communities and to develop Ten Point Programs of their own. Available in Spanish.
Teaching Activity by Wayne Au
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