Putting the movement back into civil rights teaching : a resource guide for K-12 classrooms

Author

Deborah Menkart

Call Number

• 323.1196 P9936 (CEN)

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Edition

1st ed.

Publication Information

Washington, D.C. : Teaching for Change and the Poverty & Race Research Action Council, ©2004.

Physical Description

xiv, 562 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Summary

Product Description: As one of the most commonly taught stories of people's struggles for social justice, the Civil Rights Movement has the capacity to help students develop a critical analysis of United States history and strategies for change. However, the empowering potential is often lost in a trivial pursuit of names and dates. Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching provides lessons and articles for classrooms and communities on how to go beyond a heroes approach to the Civil Rights Movement. The book includes interactive and interdisciplinary lessons, readings, writings, photographs, graphics, and interviews, with sections on education, economic justice, citizenship, culture, and reflections on teaching about the Civil Rights Movement. The book features lessons on the role of women in the Movement and makes connections to Chicano, Asian, Native American and international struggles for social justice.

Contents

• Foreword / Introduction
• Introduction / Mountain and the man who was not God: an essay on the life and ideas of Dr Martin Luther King Jr / Uprooting racism and racists in the United States / Politics of children's literature: what's wrong with the Rosa Parks myth / Advanced ideas about democracy / Complexities of encouraging social action / From snarling dogs to bloody Sunday: teaching past the platitudes of the Civil Rights Movement / Reinventing my teaching about the Civil Rights Movement / Teaching Eyes On The Prize: teaching democracy / Sharing the story of the movement: the project HIP-HOP experience / Uncovering the movement: a staff development seminar / Women's work: the untold story of the Civil Rights Movement / Patriotism over democracy: a critical analysis of U S history textbooks / Lynch law in America / Nonviolence v Jim Crow / Montgomery bus boycott-organizing strategies and challenges / Enactment / Claudette Colvin goes to work / Freedom's children: an oral history unit on the Civil Rights Movement / Man I am / Voices of black liberation / Borning struggle: an interview with Bernice Johnson Reagon / Freedom song: tactics for transformation / Mississippi at Atlantic City / Black Panther Party: legacy and lessons for the future / What we want / What we want, what we believe / Massacre at Tlatelolco, Mexico / Letter from George Jackson / Movers and movements: Fighting for social justice in South Africa / Bloody wake of Alcatraz: political repression of the America Indian movement during the 1970s / Day at Oglala: June 28, 1975 / American exported black nationalism / Remarks at the Second Circuit Judicial Conference / Color of elections / Contemporary police brutality and misconduct: a continuation of the legacy of racial violence / Hidden in plain sight: Martin Luther Kings Jrs radical vision / Power of language and literacy: student historians for social justice / Bring it on!: stories and strategies for first grade / Maggie Nolan Donovan
• Eager to learn, ready to defend
• Each school had a graveyard: Native-American boarding schools / Blueprint for first-class citizenship / Brown v Board: parents take a stand
• Mexican-American parents fight segregation interview of Judge Albert Pena / Court cases in prelude to brown
• New Kent school and the George W Watkins School: from freedom of choice to integration / March on John Philip Sousa: a social action project / Desegregation / Acting for justice / Chicago defender sends a man to Little Rock / School year like no other: Eyes On The Prize / Plaintiff speaks / Literacy and liberation / Mississippi freedom schools: a project from the past suggests a lesson for the future / Material things and Soul Things From The Freedom Schools Curriculum
• Freedom to liberation: politics and pedagogy in movement schools / Be down with the brown! / Norma

• Bussing in Boston / I came from a yellow seed / Soul make a path through shouting / Sisters in arms / Revisiting the struggle for integration / Radical equations: the algebra project / New Civil Rights Movement: quality education by any means necessary / Public Education of equal high quality / Work and wages timeline / Southern tenant farmers' union: black and white unite? / Great nation of black men / Cooperative action in black Los Angeles, 1903-1930 / Unionism in the agricultural fields
• Salute to Luisa Moreno
• Until victory comes: May 1941 call to Negro America
• March for jobs and freedom: calculating the crowd
• Cesar Chavez on how it began / El acto: studying the Mexican-American experience through farm workers' theater / What happened to the revolt of the black athlete? a look back 30 years later / Felton X (Bill Russell) / Painting a picture of the movement: from Aaron Douglas to the Memphis sanitation workers / South African unions struggle for justice / Catfish and community: people of color organize in and around unions / Si Se Puede! Yes we can! / Jobs for all: a fitting tribute to the Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr / I walk in the history of my people / Nicolas Guillen: the struggle against two racisms / Wrighting the wrongs / Martin and my father / If you miss me from the back of the bus
• Black art and black liberation / Drinking tea with both hands / I have not signed a treaty with the United States Government / Understanding self-defense in the Civil Rights Movement through visual arts / Ode to Paul Robeson, No 1 1976 / Solo le pido a dios
• Black youth black art black face: an address / What happened to your generation's promise of love and revolution: a letter to Angela Davis / Malcolm is bout more than wearing a cap / Black history month shall set you free / Where is the activism of the hip-hop generation? / We the peeps: after three decades chillin' in the hood, hip-hop is finding its voice / Hip-hop revolution / Freedom camp: a teach-in on the Martin Luther King Jr holiday / Big shoes to fill / Looking Forward
• Each generation must discover its mission / Message to humanity / Poem for July 4, 1994