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Martyrs of the Movement: Emmet Till and Goodman, Chaney and Schwerner

Martyrs of the Movement: Emmet Till and Goodman, Chaney and Schwerner. How the media got some things right. Agenda 3/14/2012. Objective: TSW understand the role of the media in advancing Civil Rights Do Now: What is the role of the media in our government? Contextualizing Activity

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Martyrs of the Movement: Emmet Till and Goodman, Chaney and Schwerner

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  1. Martyrs of the Movement: Emmet Till and Goodman, Chaney and Schwerner How the media got some things right.

  2. Agenda 3/14/2012 • Objective: TSW understand the role of the media in advancing Civil Rights • Do Now: What is the role of the media in our government? • Contextualizing Activity • Discussion

  3. Emmett Till • Emmett Till was a 14 year old boy from Chicago who went down to the South to visit a family member for the summer. • He was brutally murdered for allegedly whistling at a white woman.

  4. What the witnesses say happened?

  5. On a mother’s love • His mom was amazing. She had to identify his body, and upon seeing what they had done to her son and realizing that the Southerners had tried to cover it up, she ordered them to have an open casket. • This moment became a watershed for Civil Rights because it was the first time the Northern media had exposed the violence of the South. • Her actions, which were unimaginably hard, sparked a lot of action among activists and the people outside the South.

  6. From Death Springs Action

  7. On the Role of the Media • “So I wanted to make it as real and as visible as I could possibly make it. I knew if they walked by that casket, if people opened the pages of Jet Magazine and the Chicago Defender, if other people could see it with their own eyes, then together we might find a way to express what we had seen. I was important to do that, I thought, to help people recognize the horrible problems we were facing in the South….The whole nation had to bear witness to this” Mamie Till-Mobley

  8. Remembering

  9. Agenda 3/15/2012 • Objective: TSW understand the role of the media in advancing Civil Rights • Do Now: Are there things you would die for? If yes, what? If no, why not? • Mini-Lecture & Discussion: • Describe the images you’ve seen related to civil rights? Who is in them? What is happening? • CORE & Freedom Summer • CGS video clips

  10. What was Freedom Summer • 1942- Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) • started by pacifist Fellowship of Reconciliation • 1961 – Freedom Rides, mixed race busloads of college students tried to integrate bus station terminals • Summer 1964- volunteers from all over the nation and different rights groups traveled to Mississippi • Goal  register African-American voters and improve their civil rights. • James Chaney, Andrew Goodman & Mickey Schwerner from CORE were among them. • “The Freedom Summer Killings”

  11. Mississippi Burning Trailer (1988)

  12. Freedom Summer Clip 1

  13. Freedom Summer Clip 2

  14. 20th Anniversary

  15. Legacy of CGS • Cold Cases

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