Required Reading:
Isserman and Kazin, America Divided, 23-45
Excerpt
from I’ve Got the Light of Freedom by Charles Payne
Documents: Mississippi Violence, 1961-1962
“The First Freedom Ride:” Bayard Rustin On His Work With CORE
Jack O’Dell on Fighting Racism in the 1940s
Hear John Lewis describe his experience on the Freedom Rides
Sit-ins, Freedom Rides Website Library of Congress exhibit
An Analysis of the Racial Situation in the South in 1960 as Civil Rights Activism Increased
Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive 125 oral histories, including those who opposed the movement
Freedom Ride 2001 –songs and other good links
1963 Woolworth Sit-In – violence continues
Historic
Places of the Civil Rights Movement
Martin Luther King’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail
(the need for direct action, not politics as usual
Abbreviated version of Letter from a Birmingham Jail http://www.triadntr.net/~rdavis/mlkbirm.htm
Martin Luther
King Papers Project – chronologies, speeches, sermons, documents, lesson
plans, liberation curriculum; one of my favorites is Drum Major Instinct (see
sermons link)
Voices of the Civil Rights Era - http://webcorp.com/civilrights/voices.htm
:” Fannie
Lou Hamer On The Mississippi Voter Registration Campaign
1960s Chronology (this is somewhat more detailed than the one at the end of America Divided)
Timeline of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Movement http://www.ibiblio.org/sncc/timeline.html
Selected dates in Civil Rights History Timeline http://www.sitins.com/timeline.htm