Teaching Activity. By Bill Bigelow, Jesse Hagopian, Cierra Kaler-Jones, Ana Rosado, and Ursula Wolfe-Rocca.
Students read about sites of memory in How the Word Is Passed and imagine how to commemorate what occurred there. They then compare that to how the respective site is currently commemorated and described by docents.
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A decade before the March on Washington, a group of Black women known as the Sojourners for Truth and Justice gathered in Washington D.C. to advocate for their rights.
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Teaching Activity. By Cierra Kaler-Jones.
In this lesson, students use key excerpts from How the Word Is Passed by Clint Smith as inspiration for a project where they tell their and their loved ones’ stories.
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Film. By Phil Alden Robinson. 2006. 117 minutes.
Based on the actual history of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), student activism, and voter registration in McComb, Mississippi, during the Civil Rights Movement.
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Article. By James W. Loewen. 2015.
Overview of five common fallacies that Americans still tell themselves about the Reconstruction era.
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Lamar Smith, 63-year-old farmer and WWI veteran, was shot dead in Brookhaven, Mississippi, for urging African Americans to vote.
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Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer, and the other members of the MFDP at the Democratic National Convention, questioned the nation about the lack of “one person, one vote” in the United States.
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Picture book. By Tim Tingle. 2008. 40 pages.
A picture book that highlights rarely discussed intersections between Native Americans in the South and African Americans in bondage.
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The White Citizens Council and Ku Klux Klan launched full-scale rioting in Clinton, Tennessee in response to school desegregation.
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The Grenada, Mississippi school board shuttered school instead of opening its doors to registered Black students.
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Henry McNeal Turner addressed the Georgia Legislature on its decision to expel all Black representatives.
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The South Carolina Constitutional Convention convened to disenfranchise Black voters.
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Paul Robeson lost his court appeal to have the U.S. State Department grant him a passport.
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Clara Luper and the NAACP Youth Council began sit-ins to desegregate lunch counters.
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The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters was launched in New York.
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Hundreds of thousands of civil rights activists marched on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
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The Attica Prison Uprising began when prisoners took control of part of the prison in Upstate New York.
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ASALH was established by Carter G. Woodson and Jesse E. Moorland.
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This massacre was committed against African Americans by a mob of about 5,000 white people in Springfield, Illinois.
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People’s Tribunal on killing of three young men at Algiers Motel in Detroit.
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Nathaniel Turner launched one of the most historic revolts to end enslavement.
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When the “Fort Hood 43” refused to board a plane to Chicago for riot-control duty against fellow African Americans, their non-violent act became one of the largest demonstrations of dissent in U.S. military history.
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Teaching Activity. By Ursula Wolfe-Rocca, Alex Stegner, Chris Buehler, Angela DiPasquale, and Tom McKenna.
Students meet dozens of advocates and recipients of reparations from a variety of historical eras to grapple with the possibility of reparations now and in the future.
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White mobs in Cincinnati, Ohio, rioted for a week, assaulting the city’s Black residents and destroying their property .
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