Book — Non-fiction. Edited by Stewart Burns 1997. 392 pages.
A documentary history of the Montgomery bus boycott that reverberates with the voices of those closest to the boycott.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Cynthia Levinson. 2012. 176 pages.
Tells the story of the 4,000 Black elementary, middle, and high school students who voluntarily went to jail between May 2 and May 11, 1963.
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Book — Fiction. By Deborah Wiles 2014. 544 pages.
Historical fiction for young adults set in Greenwood, Mississippi during the 1964 Freedom Summer.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Tananarive Due and Patricia Stephens Due. 2003. 416 pages.
An unforgettable story of a mother-daughter journey spanning two generations of Civil Rights struggles.
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Book — Fiction. By John Armistead. 2002. 218 pages.
Confronted with decisions well beyond their years, three friends grapple with eternal issues of shifting loyalties and the nature of heroism
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Book — Non-fiction. Edited by Leslie G. Kelen. 2012. 256 pages.
Presents the Civil Rights Movement through the work of nine activist photographers who lived within the movement and documented its activities by focusing on the student activists and local people who together made it happen.
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Book — Non-fiction. Photographs by Herbert Randall. 2001. 132 pages.
A key collection of photographs for teaching about Freedom Summer in 1964 Mississippi.
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Film. By Elizabeth Deane and Dion Graham. 2004. 174 minutes.
Through the voices of several historians and dramatic re-enactments by actors, PBS’s Reconstruction: The Second Civil War uses the stories of ordinary citizens to paint a picture of the Reconstruction era.
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Sean Bell was murdered by New York City police on the day before his wedding.
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African American athletes gathered to support Muhammed Ali’s refusal to serve in Vietnam.
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Lorraine Hansberry was an author and activist who wrote “A Raisin in the Sun.”
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Medgar Evers made a 17-minute speech on WLBT in a rare and historic exception to the white supremacist only voice on Mississippi radio and television.
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Blanche K. Bruce became Register of the Treasury, which placed his name on all U.S. currency.
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Ernest Green became the first African-American to graduate from Little Rock Central High School in 1958.
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The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the plaintiffs in three cases that weakened the structure of legalized segregation.
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Air Force veteran James Meredith began the March Against Fear from Memphis, Tennessee to Jackson, Mississippi.
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Homer Plessy was arrested for violating Louisiana’s Separate Car Act.
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Freedom Riders traveling from New Orleans, Louisiana to Jackson, Mississippi were arrested in 1961.
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More than 100,000 students stayed out of school to protest inequality and segregation in Chicago, Illinois.
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The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Mildred and Richard Loving in the historic Loving v. Virginia case.
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Henry Highland Garnet, abolitionist and minister, called for a militant slave revolt.
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Black and white protesters attempted to desegregate a pool in St. Augustine, Florida. The owner dumped acid into the protester-filled pool in an attempt to force them to leave. Police officers eventually dragged protesters out of the pool and took them to jail.
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Killed by the police only twelve years later, today Tamir Rice was born.
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Teaching Activity. By Ursula Wolfe-Rocca. Rethinking Schools. 29 pages.
Through examining FBI documents, students learn the scope of the FBI’s COINTELPRO campaign to spy on, infiltrate, discredit, and disrupt all corners of the Black Freedom Movement.
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Jonathan Ferrell was killed by police in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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