Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching
Jenice View
Teaching for Change and PRRAC, 2004
ISBN: 9781878554185
A resource guide for educators that covers issues relating to civil rights, and provides multiple standpoints while discussing the historical events surrounding the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 60s, as well as other economic, cultural, and humanitarian issues.
Teaching the American Civil Rights Movement
Julie Buckner Armstrong
Routledge, 2002
ISBN: 0415932572
This book offers perspectives on presenting the movement in different classroom contexts; strategies to make the movement come alive for students; and issues highlighting topics that students will find appealing. Including sample syllabi and detailed descriptions from courses that prove effective, this work will be useful for all instructors, both college and upper level high school, for courses in history, education, race, sociology, literature and political science.
The Mississipp Burning Civil Rights Murder Conspiracy Trial
Harvey Fireside
Enslow Publishers, 2002
ISBN: 0766017621
Examines the trials of the men accused of murdering three civil rights workers in Mississippi in 1964, including the Supreme Court decision to try to defendants in a federal rather than a state court and the final verdicts which marked the first time, in Mississippi, that a jury convicted white men for killing African Americans or civil rights workers.