Houston Bryan Roberson / Rhonda Y. Williams (eds.)

Teaching the American Civil Rights Movement

Freedom's Bittersweet Song
Herausgeber: Armstrong, Julie Buckner; Roberson, Houston Bryan; Edwards, Susan Hult

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The past fifteen years have seen renewed interest in the civil rights movement. Television documentaries, films and books have brought the struggles into our homes and classrooms once again. New evidence in older criminal cases demands that the judicial system reconsider the accuracy of investigations and legal decisions. Racial profiling, affirmative action, voting districting, and school voucher programs keep civil rights on the front burner in the political arena. In light of this, there are very few resources for teaching the civil rights at the university level. This timely and invaluable book fills this gap. 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 381g
• ISBN-13: 9780415932578
• ISBN-10: 0415932572
• Artikelnr.: 21828041

Autorenporträt

Julie Buckner Armstrong is Assistant Professor of English at Valdosta State in Georgia. Houston B. Roberston is Assistant Professor of U.S. History at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. Rhonda Y. Williams is Assistant Professor of History at Case Western.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Waldo E. Martin
Jr. and Patricia A. Sullivan
I. Courses
1. Teaching Martin Luther King
Jr.
and the Civil Rights Movement in High School History Courses: Rethinking Content and Pedagogy
Derrick P. Alridge
2. Infusing the African-American Freedom Struggle into a Historical Survey Course
Susan Hult Edwards
Sample Course Schedule: U.S. History Since 1877
3. Birth Too Long Delayed is Perspective Too Long Denied: The Importance of Before and After the Traditional American Civil Rights Movement
Houston Bryan Roberson
Sample Syllabus: The American Civil Rights Movement
4. Women and the Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century
Barbara Machtinger
Sample Syllabus: Women and the Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century
5. Wading in Troubled Water: Legacies of the Civil Rights Movement as Freshman Composition
Julie Buckner Armstrong
Sample Syllabus: Legacies of the Civil Rights Movement
II. Strategies:
1. Raising the Curtain: Performance
History
and Pedagogy
Rhonda Y. Williams
Sample Performance Project Assignment
2. Eyewitness to the Movement: Conducting Oral History Interviews in the Classroom
Jack M. Bloom
Sample Syllabus: Eyewitness to the Movement
3. Coming of Age in the Movement: Teaching With Personal Narratives
Sarah E. Gardner
4. Your Blues Ain't Like Mine and the Civil Rights Movement
Charles E. Wilson
Jr.
5. Music and the Civil Rights Movement
1954-1968: A Classroom Approach
Gregory Freeland
Sample Syllabus: Music and the Civil Rights Movement
III. Issues
1. All Power to the People! : Teaching Black Nationalism in the Post Civil Rights Era
Peniel E. Joseph
Sample Syllabus: Black Political Thought in the Age of Civil Rights and Black Power
2. This nonviolent stuff ain't no good. It'll get ya killed ': Teaching About Self-Defense in the African-American Freedom Struggle
Emilye J. Crosby
Sample Assignments: Self-Defense and the African-American Freedom Struggle
3. Dismantling the Master's Narrative: Teaching Gender
Race and Class in the Civil Rights Movement
M. Bahati Kuumba
Sample Syllabus: Women and Social Resistance Movements
4. The Defiant Ones: The Civil Rights Movement and College Student Protest
1954-1975
Wanda M. Davis
Sample Syllabus: The Civil Rights Movement and College Student Protest
5. Deep in Our Hearts
Constance Curry and Sue Thrasher
IV. Chronology
V. Resources
Contributors