The teaching workshop is designed to provide instruction and usable strategies and models for teachers to move beyond the traditional narrative and emphasize important movement themes, including the “organizing tradition” and “self-defense.” It will utilize short readings in primary sources and the films, Mississippi Burning, Freedom Song, and Boycott , to teach about the Civil Rights Movement and to model strategies for teachers to use in their classrooms.


 

Local Studies, a National Movement:
Toward a Historiography of the Black Freedom Movement

Teaching Workshop

Sunday, March 26, 2005
8:30 - 12:00 pm
Milne Library Room 104

Emilye Crosby
Judy Richardson
Web Pages on the Civil Rights Movement

The Martin Luther King Research and Education Institute,
includes lesson plans

Education for Liberation Network,
resources on teaching the freedom struggle

Putting the Movement Back in Civil Rights Teaching

Freedom Song website

Civil Rights Movement Veterans website

Oral Histories, University of Southern Mississippi Civil Rights Movement Collection
Myth of Montgomery

Women's Political Council Letter, Questions

Montgomery Bus Boycott: Important People, Terms, and Dates

Selected Books and Videos on the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Civil Rights Movement

Montgomery Bus Boycott, Questions

Teaching Mississippi Burning and Freedom Song

Resources
Questions

General Civil Rights Movement

Bibliography

Documents and Articles

Women's Political Action Council Letter to the Mayor of Montgomery, May 21, 1954

Freedom Song Article (USA Today), "114 Negroes Arrested" (New York Times), Bob Zellner interview excerpt

Montgomery Bus Boycott Primary Sources

Rosa Parks and E.D. Nixon, on the history of the boycott

Hartman Turnbow interview excerpt from My Soul is Rested, ed. by Howell Raines

Fellowship article "Mississippi Burning," by Judy Richardson

"... Teaching about Self-Defense in the African -American Freedom Struggle," by Emilye Crosby, in Teaching the American Civil Rights Movement (password is geneseo)

Table of Contents for Teaching the American Civil Rights Movement

Table of Contents for Putting the Movement Back in Civil Rights Teaching

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