Understanding and teaching the civil rights movement / edited by Hasan Kwame Jeffries.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jeffries, Hasan Kwame, 1973- editor.

Project Muse.

Series:

Harvey Goldberg series for understanding and teaching history

The Harvey Goldberg series for understanding and teaching history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Civil rights--History--Study and teaching.

African Americans.

Civil rights movements--History--20th century--Study and teaching--United States.

Civil rights movements.

Race relations.

History.

African Americans--Civil rights.

United States--Race relations--Study and teaching.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 335 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2019]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Part One. Dispatches from the frontline: reflections on teaching the civil rights movement. Who is Fannie Lou Hamer? A movement veteran on teaching civil rights history / Charlie Cobb

"They won't just be reading about history-they'll be living it!": the Anderson Monarchs little league baseball civil rights barnstorming tour / Stephen Bandura

Beyond the master narrative: teaching the civil rights movement to high school students / Adam Sanchez

"I had this black professor at UT": teaching civil rights and black power to white and black college students / Leonard Moore

Part Two. "Bigger than a hamburger": reframing the civil rights movement. Obstacles to freedom: life in Jim Crow America / Stephen Berrey

Freedom rights: reconsidering the movement's goals and objectives / Hasan Kwame Jeffries

The ballot and the bullet: rethinking the violent/nonviolent dichotomy / Christopher Strain

Place matters: the indispensable story of civil rights activism beyond Dixie / Patrick D. Jones

Part Three. "Now that he is safely dead, let us praise him": teaching iconic civil rights people, organizations, and events. Complicating Martin Luther King Jr.: teaching the life and legacy of the movement's most iconic figure / Charles McKinney

Not that kind of tired: Rosa Parks and organizing the Montgomery bus boycott / Emilye Crosby

Freedom is a constant struggle: teaching the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Project / Nicole A. Burrowes and La Tasha B. Levy

Teaching Malcolm X beyond the mythology-by any means necessary / Clarence Lang

The long hot summers of the 1960s: teaching the racial disturbances of the civil rights era / Shawn Leigh Alexander, John Rury, and Clarence Lang

Power to the people: a curriculum for teaching the Black Panther Party and the transition from civil rights to black power / Jakobi Williams

Part Four. "The essence of scholarship is truth": sources for teaching the civil rights movement. Everybody say freedom: using oral history to construct and teach new civil rights narratives / J. Todd Moye

Freedom songs: building a civil rights playlist / Charles L. Hughes

Two thumbs up: movies and documentaries to use (and avoid) when teaching civil rights / Hasan Kwame Jeffries

A rich record: using primary sources to explore the civil rights movement / John B. Gartrell

The revolution was not televised but it is available online: using the SNCC Digital Gateway to tell civil rights history from the bottom-up / Karlyn Forner

Part Five. "Strong people don't need strong leaders": methods for teaching the civil rights movement. Stay woke: teaching the civil rights movement through literature / Julie Buckner Armstrong

"Nonviolence is impossible": role playing in the classroom / Wesley Hogan

California Democracy Schools: a model for teaching civil rights to students of all ages / Michelle Herczog

Walking in their shoes: using #BlackLivesMatter to teach the civil rights movement / Shannon King.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Baltimore, MD Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780299321932

0299321932

Publisher Number:

40029662503

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.