Read for Jan 22: Isserman and Kazin, America
Divided, 23-45
Excerpt from I’ve Got the Light of
Freedom by Charles Payne
Documents: Mississippi Violence, 1961-1962
You should have all of the material above read for Jan 22, although this material will be dealt with on both days. We will watch excerpts from the freedom rides
Greensboro Sit-ins website http://www.sitins.com/
Oral Histories of the Freedom Riders http://www.freedomridersfoundation.org/oral.histories.html
Hear John Lewis describe his experience on the Freedom Rides http://www.ibiblio.org/sncc/lewis.html
Photos of the Freedom Rides http://www.freedomridersfoundation.org/photos.articles.and.artifacts.html
Sit-ins, Freedom Rides Website http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart9b.html
Recommended:
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
Introduction to Civil Rights Movement , including links to narrative of Sit-ins and Freedom Rides http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/civilrights-55-65/index.html