Civil Discourse & Social Change

Teaching Commons Resources: College of Social and Behavioral Sciences

POLITICAL SCIENCE

Freedom Summer: protests on voting rightsAssignments

Classroom Activities

Readings

"After Freedom Summer: How Race Realigned Mississippi Politics, 1965- 1986" by Chris Danielson. (November, 2013)

Online Resources

https://howard.edu/library/reference/guides/hamer/  (Fannie Lou Hamer)
http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/sayitplain/flhamer.html
https://www.minnpost.com/community-voices/2014/06/hubert-horatio-humphrey-hero-civil-rights-act-1964/ (Horatio Hubert Humphrey)
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/07/the-ghosts-of-freedom-summer-in-greenwood-mississippi/374106/  (ghosts-of-freedom-summer-in-greenwood- Mississippi)
https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2014/07/50-years-after-freedom-summer-civil-rights-vets-fear-rollback/ (abcnew spolitical blog)

Visual Media/Documentaries

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07PwNVCZCcY

Freedom Summer Timeline            

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/timeline/freedomsummer-timeline/ 

GEOGRAPHY

Assignments

Classroom Activities

               Mapping the southern states in the Civil Rights era (Univer. of VA)
               Mapping the journey from the north to the south of the Freedom Summer 
               Students 

ANTHROPOLOGY

Assignments

Classroom Activities

Readings

"American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America"