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Medgar Evers: Mississippi Martyr
Civil rights activist Medgar Wiley Evers was well aware of the dangers he would face when he challenged the status quo in Mississippi in the 1950s and ‘60s, a place and time known for the brutal...
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Letters from Mississippi: Reports from Civil Rights Volunteers and Poetry of...
During the summer of 1964, a presidential election year, SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) sent volunteers into Mississippi to expand Black voter registration in the state, to organize a...
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Thunder of Freedom: Black Leadership and the Transformation of 1960s Mississippi
The world’s eyes were on Mississippi during the summer of 1964 when civil rights activists launched an ambitious African American voter registration project and were met with violent resistance from...
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Lessons from Freedom Summer: Ordinary People Building Extraordinary Movements
“This collection of readings and suggested questions on Freedom Schools is an almost unimaginable collection of goodies for educators to help students recognize their potential as agents of social...
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I’ve Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi...
This momentous work offers a groundbreaking history of the early civil rights movement in the South. Using wide-ranging archival work and extensive interviews with movement participants, Charles Payne...
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Freedom on My Mind
Nominated for an Academy Award, winner of both the American Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians awards for best documentary, this landmark film tells the story of the...
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For Freedom’s Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer
The youngest of twenty children of sharecroppers in rural Mississippi, Fannie Lou Hamer witnessed throughout her childhood the white cruelty, political exclusion, and relentless economic exploitation...
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As Fast As Words Could Fly
Based on her father’s experience in 1960s North Carolina, Pamela Tuck tells how a family and community challenge racism where they work, shop, and go to school. The protagonist, 14-year-old Mason, is...
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Sharecroppers Challenge U.S. Apartheid: The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
This lesson explores one of the most important events in the fight for true democracy in U.S. history, when a coalition of grassroots activists challenged the Mississippi political system, the federal...
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Freedom Summer
Over 10 memorable weeks in 1964 known as Freedom Summer, more than 700 student volunteers from around the country joined organizers and local African Americans in a historic effort to shatter the...
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