Text Set Civil Rights Movement

1. Text SetCivil Rights Movement Ashley Dreahn

2. Text Set Information • Concept: • The concept of this text set is to provide resources for students learning about the civil rights movement. • Grade Level: • High School • History • Teks: • §113.32. • (7)  History. The student understands the impact of the American civil rights movement. The student is expected to: • (A)  trace the historical development of the civil rights movement in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, including the 13th, 14th, 15th amendments; • (B)  identify significant leaders of the civil rights movement, including Martin Luther King, Jr.; • (C)  evaluate government efforts, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964, to achieve equality in the United States; and • (D)  identify changes in the United States that have resulted from the civil rights movement such as increased participation of minorities in the political process.

3. Fiction Book • Book: • Short Stories of the Civil Rights Movement: An Anthology • Author: • Margaret Early Whitt • Editor • Annotation: • The sections into which the stories are grouped parallel the news headlines of the day: School Desegregation (1954 on), Sit-ins (1960 on), Marches and Demonstrations (1963 on), and Acts of Violence. In the last section, Retrospective, characters look back on their personal involvement with the movement. Twenty writers-eleven black and nine white-are represented in the collection. Ten stories were written during the 1960s. That the others were written long after the movement's heyday suggests the potency of that time as a continuing source of creative inspiration. • Source: Amazon.com Whitt, Margaret Early (editor). Short Stories of the Civil Rights Movement: An Anthology. University of Georgia Press, 2006.

4. External Basis of Selection • Editorial Review on Amazon.com • "I know of no other collection with the focus of this fine anthology. Readers who worked in the movement and who grew up during that era will find these stories especially fascinating. But Short Stories of the Civil Rights Movement is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand the many perspectives on, and the myriad emotions behind, the historical events of one of the most transformative periods in American history.” • - Suzanne Jones, author of ‘Race Mixing: Southern Fiction since the Sixties’

5. More Information • How this text will be used: • I will use this book as a choice of books to choose from for literature circles in the classroom. • Also, this book will be available for check out from my reading shelves. • This will be a recommended reader to students. • Product Details: • Paperback: 343 pages • Publisher: University of Georgia Press (November 2006) • Language: English • ISBN-10: 0820328510 • ISBN-13: 978-0820328515

6. Non Fiction Book Beals, Melba Pattillo. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High. Washington Square Press, 1995. • Book: • Warriors Don’t Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock’s Central High • Author: • Melba Pattillo Beals • Annotation: • Beals, one of the nine black students who integrated Central High School in Little Rock, AR, in 1957, tells an incredible story of faith, family love, friendships, and strong personal commitment. Drawing from the diaries she kept, the author easily puts readers in her saddle oxfords as she struggles against those people in both the white and black communities who would have segregation continue. • She shares the physical, mental, and emotional torture and abuse she suffered at the hands of teenagers and adults. She also shares the support, the encouragement, and the help she received from both whites and blacks. • Source: School Library Journal

7. External Basis of Selection • From Library Journal • Beals, one of the "Little Rock Nine" and a former NBC reporter, writes movingly of desegregating Little Rock's Central High School in 1957-58. Using diaries and contemporary media coverage, she re-creates a time of fear and tenaciously held hopes. The horrors the nine black students faced are told in a teenager's voice, simply and sadly. Robbed of normal adolescence, Beals grew up fast. Her gratitude to the 101st Airborne for their protection stands in stark contrast to her bewilderment over the behavior of Governor Faubus and school officials, who refused to enforce even rudimentary discipline to prevent the daily torture. Beals credits family and friends, along with Daisy Bates, the late Thurgood Marshall, and the press, for their support. Though her use of "re-created" conversations does not always work, this remains a highly readable tale of courage in the face of persecution that deserves to be read, especially by young people. School libraries should consider, and all libraries with strong black history collections will want to purchase.--Donna L. Cole, Leeds P.L., Ala. • Source: Amazon.com

8. More Information • How this text will be used: • I will use this book as a choice of books to choose from for literature circles in the classroom. • Also, this book will be available for check out from my reading shelves. • Possibly used as a mandatory reading selection. • Product Details • Paperback: 312 pages • Publisher: Washington Square Press (February 1, 1995) • Language: English • ISBN-10: 0671866397 • ISBN-13: 978-0671866396

9. Computer Resource • AARP, LCCR, Library of Congress. Voices of Civil Rights. 2004. 11 April 2009 <http://www.voicesofcivilrights.org/index.html>. • Website: • Voices of Civil Rights • Authors: • AARP • Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR) • Library of Congress • Link: • http://www.voicesofcivilrights.org/index.html • Annotation: (info. from the site) • This Voices of Civil Rights website features a searchable online archive of selected stories submitted by people from every corner of the country and from all walks of life. In addition, there are interactive features, essays, interviews, and special reports. • The era of struggle involving thousands of African Americans and others in the 1950s and 1960s was a pivotal period in civil rights history. It captivated the world and inspired millions. And yet America's civil rights story also includes those who battled discrimination in the decades before and after. It transcends race, age, gender, and national origin. Voices of Civil Rights hopes to preserve the entire story. It is our way of honoring the quest for freedom that continues to build the nation and change the world.

10. External Basis of Selection • The creators of the website are creditable: • This site is a joint project of : • AARP • Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR) • Library of Congress Awards Received

11. More Information • How this text will be used: • This would be a useful site to show students. • Also good to have students explore it on their own. • Recommend for research source. • Create an assignment involving use of the website. • Includes many resources for the classroom to pull from the site.

12. Picture Book Kasher, Steven. The Civil Rights Movement: A Photographic History, 1954-68 . Abbeville Press, 1996. • Book: • The Civil Rights Movement: A Photographic History, 1954-68 • Author: • Steven Kasher • Annotation: • This volume tells the story of the American civil rights movement through the rousing and often wrenching photographs that recorded, promoted and protected it. After an introduction explaining the vital importance of photography to the movement, the book proceeds from the Montgomery bus boycott through the student, local and national movements; the big marches in Washington and Selma; Freedom Summer; Malcolm X and Black Power; and the death of Martin Luther King. Each chapter begins with a fast-paced narrative of a crucial event in the movement, complemented by a portfolio of effective and evocative photographs of the subject. Ranging from the well-known to the rare, these images were shot by photographers including Richard Avedon, Danny Lyon, Charles Moore, Gordon Parks, Dan Weiner, and over 50 others. Many of the pictures are accompanied by remembrances and analysis by various photographers and participants. The book also features a concise chronology of the major civil rights events of the period and suggestions for additional reading. • Source: Amazon.com

13. External Basis of Selection • From Publishers Weekly • The civil rights movement has produced enduring images, and the famous ones are collected here: separate (and unequal) white and black water fountains, police dogs on the streets of Birmingham, Martin Luther King proclaiming "I Have a Dream," Memphis strikers with their "I Am a Man" placards. As New York City photographer Kasher observes, "No other American pictures radiate so brightly a collective passion for justice." This book, which collects some 150 black-and-white photos, is indeed a history, offering many lesser-known images that also resonate. See legendary organizer Septima Clark lead older women in a citizenship class; a bespectacled Elizabeth Eckford, one of the "Little Rock Nine," walk stoically ahead of jeering white students; Julian Bond pose with fellow SNCC volunteers, seemingly too young to help change history; and a Mississippi-delta organizing house that has painted the word Freedom on a cross burned by the Klan. Kasher's chapter introductions are lucid overviews of the movement, while the captions, some of which reproduce the original, stilted wire-service captions are also effective and informative. A moving tribute. Author tour. • Source: Amazon.com

14. More Information • How this text will be used: • This book will be available for check out from my reading shelves. • This will be a recommended reader to students. • This book may be shown to the class. • The pictures will provide good classroom and lesson material. • Product Details • Paperback: 256 pages • Publisher: Abbeville Press (September 1996) • Language: English • ISBN-10: 0789206560 • ISBN-13: 978-0789206565

15. Primary Source I Have a Dream. By Martin Luther King Jr. Lincoln Memorial, Washington. 28 August 1963. • Primary Source: • “I Have a Dream” Speech • Author: • Martin Luther King Jr. • Annotation: • "I Have A Dream" is the popular name given to the public speech by Martin Luther King, Jr., when he spoke of his desire for a future where blacks and whites, among others, would coexist harmoniously as equals. King's delivery of the speech on August 28, 1963, from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, was a defining moment of the American Civil Rights Movement. Delivered to over 250,000 civil rights supporters, the speech is often considered to be one of the greatest and most notable speeches in history and was ranked the top American speech of the 20th century by a 1999 poll of scholars of public address. • Source: Wikipedia.com

16. External Basis of Selection • According to U.S. Representative John Lewis, who also spoke that day as the President of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, "Dr. King had the power, the ability and the capacity to transform those steps on the Lincoln Memorial into a modern day pulpit. By speaking the way he did, he educated, he inspired, he informed not just the people there, but people throughout America and unborn generations.” • Source: Wikipedia.com

17. More Information • How this text will be used: • Assignment interpreting the speech. • Watch a video of him giving the speech. • Read aloud to class.

18. Nonfiction Book • Book: • Voices of Freedom: An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s Through the 1980s • Authors: • Henry Hampton • Steve Fayer • Annotation: • From the Inside Flap • In this monumental volume, Henry Hampton, creator and executive producer of the acclaimed PBS series Eyes on the Prize, and Steve Fayer, series writer, draw upon nearly one thousand interviews with civil rights activists, politicians, reporters, Justice Department officials, and hundreds of ordinary people who took part in the struggle, weaving a fascinating narrative of the civil rights movement told by the people who lived it. • This remarkable oral history brings to life country's great struggle for civil rights as no conventional narrative can. You will hear the voices of those who defied the blackjacks, who went to jail, who witnessed and policed the movement; of those who stood for and against it - voices from the heart of America. • Marches and murders, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X, JFK and LBJ--from the bus boycott in Montgomery to busing in Boston, from the marches on Selma to the riots in Miami, Voices of Freedom illuminates the long, impassioned, sometimes painful and sometimes joyful struggle for a truly democratic society that continues today. Fayer, Henry Hampton and Steve. Voices of Freedom: An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s Through the 1980s . Bantam, 1991.

19. External Basis of Selection • From the Back Cover • "I can hardly wait for my daughter - and all our children and grandchildren= to read this book"-- Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple • "Something much greater than the sum if its parts, a taut and vivid narrative on an epic scale--compelling--marvelously diverse.-- Los Angeles Times • "A vast choral pageant that recounts the momentous work of t he civil rights struggle."-- The New York Times Book Review • "Utterly fascinating. Voices of Freedom tells the greatest American story ever told. These voices are extraordinary. So is the book."-- Pat Conroy, author of The Prince of Tides • "Through the words of the victims, the villains, and the victorious, who together changed the course of America's sadly racist history. Voices of Freedom gives us the opportunity to glimpse the shining spirits of our heroic people, black and white, female and male, often through chuckles and often through tears."-- Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple

20. More Information • How this text will be used: • I will use this book as a choice of books to choose from for literature circles in the classroom. • Also, this book will be available for check out from my reading shelves. • This will be a recommended reader to students. • Possibly used as a mandatory reading selection. • Product Details • Paperback: 720 pages • Publisher: Bantam (February 1, 1991) • Language: English • ISBN-10: 0553352326 • ISBN-13: 978-0553352320

21. References • Works Cited: • AARP, LCCR, Library of Congress. Voices of Civil Rights. 2004. 11 April 2009 <http://www.voicesofcivilrights.org/index.html>. • Beals, Melba Pattillo. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High. Washington Square Press, 1995. • Fayer, Henry Hampton and Steve. Voices of Freedom: An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s Through the 1980s . Bantam, 1991. • I Have a Dream. By Martin Luther King Jr. Lincoln Memorial, Washington. 28 August 1963. • Kasher, Steven. The Civil Rights Movement: A Photographic History, 1954-68 . Abbeville Press, 1996. • Whitt, Margaret Early (editor). Short Stories of the Civil Rights Movement: An Anthology. University of Georgia Press, 2006. • Other Sources: • Pictures from: • Google.com image search • Book information from: • Amazon.com • Other information from: • Wikipedia.com