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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jeffries, Hasan Kwame, 1973- editor.

Series:

Harvey Goldberg series for understanding and teaching history.

Harvey Goldberg series for understanding and teaching history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

African Americans.

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

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

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

Summary:

The civil rights movement transformed the United States in such fundamental ways that exploring it in the classroom can pose real challenges for instructors and students alike. Speaking to the critical pedagogical need to teach civil rights history accurately and effectively, this volume goes beyond the usual focus on iconic leaders of the 1950s and 1960s to examine the broadly configured origins, evolution, and outcomes of African Americans' struggle for freedom. Essays provide strategies for teaching famous and forgotten civil rights people and places, suggestions for using music and movies, frameworks for teaching self-defense and activism outside the South, a curriculum guide for examining the Black Panther Party, and more. Books in the popular Harvey Goldberg Series provide high school and introductory college-level instructors with ample resources and strategies for better engaging students in critical, thought-provoking topics. By allowing for the implementation of a more nuanced curriculum, this is history instruction at its best. Understanding and Teaching the Civil Rights Movement will transform how the United States civil rights movement is taught.

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.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780299321932

0299321932

OCLC:

1125006333