Book — Non-fiction. Edited by Sarah Blanc. 2014. 115 pages.
A collection of interviews conducted by the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program over seven years in Sunflower County, Mississippi. The stories provide a powerful first person introduction to the history of the Mississippi Civl Rights Movement.
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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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Educator and civil rights organizer Septima Clark was born in South Carolina.
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The Poor People’s Campaign was a multiracial effort to gain economic justice for poor people.
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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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Ernest Green became the first African-American to graduate from Little Rock Central High School in 1958.
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Air Force veteran James Meredith began the March Against Fear from Memphis, Tennessee to Jackson, Mississippi.
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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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Police arrived at the Stonewall Inn and arrested anyone found to be cross-dressing, resulting in mayhem and what are now referred to as the Stonewall Riots. This was a milestone in a long history of LGBTQ+ activism.
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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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The bodies of three lynched civil rights workers (James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman) were found in Neshoba County, Mississippi.
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Digital collection. The Library of Congress has launched an online collection of oral history interviews with Civil Rights Movement veterans.
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James Meredith attempted to register at the University of Mississippi.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Robert Cohen. 2018. 312 pages.
A historical overview and diary entries from Howard Zinn's years as an activist professor at Spelman College.
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Teaching Activity. By Adam Sanchez. Rethinking Schools. 24 pages.
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. By Clyde Kennard. 1959.
Letter to the editor the Hattiesburg American about race and integration.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Jeanne Theoharis. 2018. 282 pages.
A non-academic, popular historiography that challenges educators to revamp curriculum to include a fuller, more critical history of the Civil Rights era.
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A. Philip Randolph, Jackie Robinson, Coretta Scott King, Harry Belafonte, Bayard Rustin, and more led a Youth March for Integrated Schools in Washington, D.C.
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Luther Jackson was murdered by Philadelphia, Mississippi policeman Lawrence Rainey.
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