Table of Contents
Table of contents for Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching with links to selected readings and handouts.
| Foreword |
by Congressman John Lewis | |
| Introduction |
by Jenice L. View | |
| The Mountain and the Man Who Was Not God: An Essay on the Life and Ideas of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. |
by June Jordan | |
| Uprooting Racism and Racists in the United States |
by James Boggs and Grace Lee Boggs | |
| The Politics of Children’s Literature: What’s Wrong with the Rosa Parks Myth |
by Herbert Kohl | |
| Advanced Ideas about Democracy |
by Vincent Harding | |
| The Complexities of Encouraging Social Action |
by Bob Peterson | |
| From Snarling Dogs to Bloody Sunday: Teaching Past the Platitudes of the Civil Rights Movement |
by Kate Lyman | |
| Reinventing My Teaching about the Civil Rights Movement |
by Alana D. Murray | |
| Teaching Eyes on the Prize: Teaching Democracy |
by Judy Richardson | |
| Sharing the Story of the Movement: The Project HIP-HOP Experience |
by Nancy Murray | |
| Uncovering the Movement: A Staff Development Seminar [Handout 1] [Handout 2] |
by Alana D. Murray | |
| Women’s Work: The Untold Story of the Civil Rights Movement [Handout] |
by Deborah Menkart, Jenice L. View and Alana D. Murray | |
| Patriotism Over Democracy: A Critical Analysis of U.S. History Textbooks |
by James W. Loewen | |
| Lynch Law in America |
by Ida B. Wells-Barnett | |
| Nonviolence v. Jim Crow |
by Bayard Rustin | |
| Montgomery Bus Boycott—Organizing Strategies and Challenges [Handouts] |
by Alana D. Murray with elementary version by Maggie Nolan Donovan | |
| The Enactment (poem) |
by Rita Dove | |
| Claudette Colvin Goes to Work (poem) |
by Rita Dove | |
| Freedom’s Children: An Oral History Unit on the Civil Rights Movement |
by Laurel R. Singleton | |
| The Man I Am (poem) |
by Thaddeus Freeman | |
| Democracy and Empowerment: The Nashville Student Sit-Ins of the 1960s |
by Rändi Douglas | |
| Voices of Black Liberation |
by Larry Miller | |
| The Borning Struggle: An Interview with Bernice Johnson Reagon |
by Dick Cluster | |
| Freedom Song: Tactics for Transformation [Handouts] |
by Alana D. Murray | |
| Mississippi at Atlantic City |
by Charles M. Sherrod | |
| Black Nationalism and Black Pride: The Ballot or the Bullet |
by Malcolm X | |
| The Black Panther Party: Legacy and Lessons for the Future [Handouts] |
by Debbie Wei | |
| What We Want |
by Kwame Toure (Stokely Carmichael) | |
| What We Want, What We Believe [Handouts] |
by Wayne Au | |
| The Massacre at Tlatelolco, Mexico [Handouts] |
by Octavio Ruiz, et al. | |
| Vietnam: An Antiwar Comic Book |
by Julian Bond and T. G. Lewis | |
| Letter from George Jackson |
by George Jackson | |
| Movers and Movements: Fighting for Social Justice in South Africa [Handouts] | by Brenda Randolph | |
| The Bloody Wake of Alcatraz: Political Repression of the American Indian Movement During the 1970s | by Ward Churchill | |
| That Day at Oglala: June 28, 1975 |
by Leonard Peltier | |
| American Exported Black Nationalism |
by Yohuru R. Williams | |
| Remarks at the Second Circuit Judicial Conference |
by Thurgood Marshall | |
| The Color of Elections | by Bob Wing | |
| Contemporary Police Brutality and Misconduct: A Continuation of the Legacy of Racial Violence |
by the Black Radical Congress | |
| Hidden in Plain Sight: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Radical Vision | by Craig Gordon | |
| The Power of Language and Literacy: Student Historians for Social Justice |
by Irene McGinty, Monica Larenas, et al. | |
| Bring It On!: Stories and Strategies for First Grade | by Maggie Nolan Donovan | |
| Eager to Learn, Ready to Defend |
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| Each School Had a Graveyard: Native American Boarding Schools [Handouts] |
by Deborah Menkart | |
| A Blueprint for First-Class Citizenship |
by Pauli Murray | |
| Brown v. Board: Parents Take A Stand | ||
| Mexican-American Parents Fight Segregation Interview of Judge Albert Peña |
by Jesus Trevino | |
| Court Cases in Prelude to Brown, 1849-1949 |
From the Brown v. Board Orientation Handbook | |
| New Kent School and the George W. Watkins School: From Freedom of Choice to Integration | by Jody Allen, Brian Daugherity, and Sarah Trembanis | |
| The March on John Philip Sousa: A Social Action Project |
by Elizabeth A. Davis | |
| Desegregation (poem) |
by Eloise Greenfield | |
| Acting for Justice | by Linda Christensen | |
| The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock (poem) |
by Gwendolyn Brooks | |
| A School Year Like No Other: Eyes on the Prize [Handouts] |
by Bill Bigelow | |
| The Plaintiff Speaks |
by Clarissa T. Sligh | |
| Literacy and Liberation |
by Septima Clark | |
| Mississippi Freedom Schools: A Project from the Past Suggests a Lesson for the Future |
by David Levine with teaching ideas by Bill Bigelow | |
| Material Things and Soul Things | from the Freedom Schools Curriculum | |
| Freedom to Liberation: Politics and Pedagogy in Movement Schools |
by Dan Perlstein | |
| Be Down with the Brown! |
by Elizabeth Martínez | |
| Norma |
by Sonia Sanchez | |
| Bussing in Boston |
by Robert Coles | |
| I Came from a Yellow Seed |
by Nelson Nagai | |
| Soul Make a Path through Shouting | by Cyrus Cassells | |
| Sisters in Arms |
by David Hill | |
| Revisiting the Struggle for Integration |
by Michelle Fine and Bernadette Arnand | |
| Radical Equations: The Algebra Project |
by Robert P. Moses and Charles E. Cobb Jr. | |
| The New Civil Rights Movement: Quality Education By Any Means Necessary |
by BAMN and Eric Foner | |
| A Public Education of Equal High Quality | by Congressman Jesse L. Jackson Jr. | |
| Work and Wages Timeline |
by Project South | |
| Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union: Black and White Unite? [Handouts] |
by Bill Bigelow and Norman Diamond | |
| A Great Nation of Black Men |
by Marcus Garvey | |
| Cooperative Action in Black Los Angeles, 1903-1930 |
by Homer Fleetwood II | |
| Unionism in the Agricultural Fields: | ||
| A Salute to Luisa Moreno | ||
| “Until Victory Comes”: May 1941 Call to Negro America |
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| March for Jobs and Freedom: Calculating the Crowd |
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| César Chávez on How It Began |
by Luis Torres | |
| El Acto: Studying the Mexican-American Experience through Farmworkers’ Theatre [Handouts] |
by George W. Chilcoat | |
| What Happened to the Revolt of the Black Athlete? A Look Back 30 Years Later |
by David Leonard | |
| “Felton X” (Bill Russell) |
by Josh Ozersky | |
| Painting a Picture of the Movement: From Aaron Douglas to the Memphis Sanitation Workers [Additional Lessons] |
by Patty Bode and Stephanie Schmidt | |
| South African Unions Struggle for Justice [Handouts] |
by Bill Bigelow | |
| Catfish and Community: People of Color Organize in and around Unions |
by Mary Hollens | |
| ¡Si, Se Puede! Yes We Can! |
by Marcy Fink Campos | |
| “Jobs for All”: A Fitting Tribute to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. | by Mathew Forstater | |
| I Walk in the History of My People (poem) | by Chrystos | |
| Nicolás Guillén: The Struggle against Two Racisms |
by Carmen Gómez García | |
| Wrighting the Wrongs |
by Sonia Arora | |
| Martin and My Father (poem) |
by David Hernandez | |
| If You Miss Me from the Back of the Bus |
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| Black Art and Black Liberation |
by Larry Neal | |
| Soul Power and the People |
by Jenice L. View | |
| Murals: Redefining Culture, Reclaiming Identity |
by Eva Sperling Cockcroft and Holly Barnet-Sanchez | |
| Drinking Tea with Both Hands |
by Nancy Hom | |
| I Have Not Signed a Treaty with the United States Government (poem) |
by Chrystos | |
| Understanding Self-Defense in the Civil Rights Movement Through Visual Arts [Find art here] | by Sonia James-Wilson | |
| Ode to Paul Robeson, No. 1, 1976 (poem) |
by Pablo Neruda | |
| “Solo le Pido a Dios” |
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| Black Youth Black Art Black Face: An Address |
by Ras Baraka | |
| What Happened to Your Generation’s Promise of “Love and Revolution”: A Letter to Angela Davis |
by Eisa Nefertari Ulen | |
| Malcolm Is ’bout More Than Wearing a Cap (poem) |
by Michael Warr | |
| Black History Month Shall Set You Free | by Jimi Izrael | |
| Where Is the Activism of the Hip-Hop Generation? |
by Todd Burroughs | |
| We the Peeps: After Three Decades Chillin’ in the Hood, Hip-Hop Is Finding Its Voice Politically | by Teresa Wiltz | |
| The Hip-Hop Revolution |
by Manning Marable | |
| Freedom Camp: A Teach-In on the Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday |
by Katie Kissinger | |
| Stepping into History through Art and Literature |
by Lynda Tredway | |
| Big Shoes to Fill | by Debora Kodish and Teresa Jaynes | |
| Each Generation Must Discover Its Mission |
by Grace Lee Boggs | |
| A Message to Humanity |
by Leonard Peltier | |
| Poem for July 4, 1994 | by Sonia Sanchez | |
| National Standards Met by This Publication | ||