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Bob Dylan and the American Civil Rights Movement:

Bob Dylan and the American Civil Rights Movement: Race and Race Relations in the USA during the 1960s, An Inquiry approach to the teaching of history. Christopher Edwards. Picturing the Past

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Bob Dylan and the American Civil Rights Movement:

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  1. Bob Dylan and the American Civil Rights Movement: Race and Race Relations in the USA during the 1960s, An Inquiry approach to the teaching of history. Christopher Edwards

  2. Picturing the Past Before we consider the songs lets begin by establishing a picture of the of the Civil Rights period mid 1950s through to the early 1960s. Lets do this by exploring some sources.

  3. What is Historical Enquiry?

  4. Historical enquiry Pupils should be able to: a identify and investigate, individually and as part of a team, specific historical questions or issues, making and testing hypotheses b reflect critically on historical questions or issues.

  5. “The ability to pose questions to understand ourselves and our world is at the heart of what it means to be human. Unfortunately, this essential human trait is distorted in many schools by an answering pedagogy: When questions arise, knowledgeable teachers ask the ignorant students questions primarily in the form of an examination.” Yoram Harpaz and Adam Lefstein: Communities of Thinking

  6. Thinking with evidence Thinking about evidence

  7. Thinking with and about evidence Constructing frameworks or pictures of the past Building Knowledge and Historical Thinking

  8. Bob Dylan was born in the northern state of Minnesota in 1941. His parents were reasonably well off Jewish immigrants. In 1961, aged 20 years, he disrupted his university education to embark on a musical career. He moved to New York and whilst there fell in with a radical left wing community of writers and performers. In 1962 he began his association with the Civil Rights Movement singing benefit concerts. In the summer of 1963 he encountered, for the first time, southern Jim Crow segregation when singing in a civil rights concert in Mississippi. In August 1963 he sang two “protest songs” at the Washington March. The five songs in this collection were written between 1962 and 1963 responding to civil rights events as they unfolded. They were written, in part, to challenge racist attitudes and to rally support for the Civil Rights Movement. During this period Dylan was proclaimed by the media as: the “spokesman of his generation”. This was a title he strongly resisted when he began to distance himself from the Civil Rights Movement in 1964.

  9. In 1955 Emmett Till was only 14 years of age

  10. Last Letter Home Dear MomHow is everybody? I hope you and Jean is fine. I hope you'll had a nice trip. I am having a fine time will be home next week. Please have my motor bike fixed for me (pay you back). If I get any mail put it up for me. I am going to see Uncle Crosby Saturday. Everybody here is fine and having a good time. Tell Aunt Alma hello. (out of money)

  11. Emmett’s cousin Curtis Jones gives his description of events. . Whilst grandpa was preaching we went into this store to buy some candy. Before Emmett went in he had shown some boys some pictures of some white kids from his school. He told the kids that one of the white girls in the photograph was his girlfriend. One of the local boys dared him to go into the store and talk to a white girl. As he left the store he said “Bye, Baby” to her.

  12. A Brutal murder He had been beaten severely. One eye was gouged out, and one side of his forehead was crushed. A bullet was lodged in his scull.

  13. Emmett’s mother, Mamie Till’s reaction to the death of her son After the body arrived I knew that I had to look and see and make sure it was Emmett. That was when I decided that I wanted the whole world to see what I had seen. There was no way I could describe what was in that box. No way. And I just wanted the world to see.

  14. Niggers ain't gonna vote where I live. If they did, they'd control the government. They ain't gonna go to school with my kids. And when a nigger gets close to mentioning sex with a white woman, he's tired o' livin'. I'm likely to kill him. Me and my folks fought for this country, and we got some rights. I stood there in that shed and listened to that nigger throw that poison at me, and I just made up my mind. 'Chicago boy,' I said, 'I'm tired of 'em sending your kind down here to stir up trouble. Goddam you, I'm going to make an example of you -- just so everybody can know how me and my folks stand.'"

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