Week 12

Week 12

Civil Rights and Social Justice

Monday: The Civil Rights Movement I
Wednesday: The Civil Rights Movement II
Friday: Video: Eyes on the Prize

FYI: "Eyes on the Prize" can be rented from Hollywood Video, Blockbuster Video or Video-to-Go in Frandor if you want to see more. There are 5 total volumes that follow the whole history of the Civil Rights Movement through the late 1960s and early 1970s. We watched Volume 2, "Ain't Scared of Your Jails (1960-1961)" and "No Easy Walk (1963)". You may also be very interested in Vol. 4, "The Time Has Come (1964-1966)" and "Two Societies (1965-1968)." Volume 4 has the marches in Detroit and Chicago.

DISCUSSION SECTIONS: Civil Rights in Modern America

READINGS:

1.Moody, Coming of Age in Mississippi
2.Documents: Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954); Martin Luther King, "Letter from a
Birmingham Jail (1963); The Civil Rights Act of 1964; John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address; Students for a
Democratic Society, The Port Huron Statement; Lyndon B. Johnson, Great Society Speech (1964).

ADDITIONAL INTERNET RESOURCES:

1.Sound clips from Civil Rights struggles: http://webcorp.com/civilrights/
2.King and the Civil Rights Movement: http://www.seattletimes.com/mlk/index.html
3.The Sixties Project: http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/sixties/
4.Photo tour of the Civil Rights Movement: http://www.seattletimes.com/mlk/movement/PT/phototour.html

WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT:

Having read Coming of Age in Mississippi, your assignment is to write three questions for discussions. What can we learn from this book about the Civil Rights struggle? In a sentence or two suggest how you would answer these questions.

created: February 10, 2000
last updated: January 10, 2001