17: Civil Rights Movement

17: Civil Rights Movement

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Boston Before Busing – A Multimedia Exhibition Exploring Education Civil Rights in Boston from 1960-1974
Boston Before Busing – A Multimedia Exhibition Exploring Education Civil Rights in Boston from 1960-1974
Digital presentation of essays, primary source documents and timeline of events associated with the segregation in Boston schools. These materials might be more appropriate for NJ students to expose them to the northern dynamic of public school segregation
·dsgsites.neu.edu·
Boston Before Busing – A Multimedia Exhibition Exploring Education Civil Rights in Boston from 1960-1974
John F. Kennedy's 1963 Televised Address to the Nation on Civil Rights - YouTube
John F. Kennedy's 1963 Televised Address to the Nation on Civil Rights - YouTube
At the 17;40 minute mark of this video the Governor of Georgia is asked about his reaction to George Wallace's standing in the schoolhouse door at the University of Alabama and he explains that it is his view that Wallace (and Gov. Ross Barnett of Mississippi) are wrong to defy the 6th article of the Constitution. It would be worthwhile to show this to students to show that there is a difference of opinion in the south
·youtube.com·
John F. Kennedy's 1963 Televised Address to the Nation on Civil Rights - YouTube
Black family tried to move to all-White neighborhood in Rosedale, Queens (1976) - HARD TO WATCH - YouTube
Black family tried to move to all-White neighborhood in Rosedale, Queens (1976) - HARD TO WATCH - YouTube
Teachers should not use this in class without some very careful editing. WIth that warning however, this should absolutely be used to show students that segregation and racism was not a only a southern problem, but an American problem. The vivid aggressiveness of this video has an emotional payload that can't be matched by static black and white photographs.
·youtube.com·
Black family tried to move to all-White neighborhood in Rosedale, Queens (1976) - HARD TO WATCH - YouTube
Archives Photograph Collection - Will Counts
Archives Photograph Collection - Will Counts
Will Counts was a photographer nearly his entire life, and for 32 years served as a Professor of Journalism at Indiana University. He worked for the Arkansas-Democrat in Little Rock, Arkansas, and The Associated Press in Chicago, but is well known for the photographs he shot of desegregation at Little Rock's Central High School in 1957
·webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu·
Archives Photograph Collection - Will Counts
How segregated are New Jersey's schools and what can be done about it?
How segregated are New Jersey's schools and what can be done about it?
Although this news site is overgrown with ads and pop-ups this article may be useful for teachers hoping to impress upon students the desegregation in NJ Schools.
nearly half of the state's 585,000 black and Latino students go to schools that are more than 90 percent non-white,
New Jersey is the sixth most segregated state in the nation for black students, and seventh for Latino students, <a href="https://www.civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/research/k-12-education/integration-and-diversity/new-jerseys-segregated-schools-trends-and-paths-forward/New-Jersey-report-final-110917.pdf" data-t-l=":b|e|inline click|${u}" class="gnt_ar_b_a">according to a study by the Civil Rights Project at UCLA.&nbsp;</a>
In Paterson, 67 percent of students are Hispanic and 22 percent are black. Wayne, which borders Paterson to the west, is 11 percent Hispanic and 1 percent black.&nbsp;
The&nbsp;West Orange school district is 31 percent Hispanic and 38 percent black. Neighboring Essex Fells is 5 percent&nbsp;Hispanic and 3 percent&nbsp;black, while Millburn, which also borders West Orange, is 5 percent Hispanic and 2 percent black.
·northjersey.com·
How segregated are New Jersey's schools and what can be done about it?
NJ Coalition for Diverse and Inclusive Schools (NJCDIS) | United Methodist Church of Greater New Jersey
NJ Coalition for Diverse and Inclusive Schools (NJCDIS) | United Methodist Church of Greater New Jersey
New Jersey has among the most segregated public schools in the entire county
The New Jersey Coalition for Diverse and Inclusive Schools, Inc. (NJCDIS) is a non‐profit corporation organized under New Jersey law whose members are dedicated to redressing the intense racial and economic segregation in New Jersey public schools.
·gnjumc.org·
NJ Coalition for Diverse and Inclusive Schools (NJCDIS) | United Methodist Church of Greater New Jersey
Home - Robert Russa Moton Museum
Home - Robert Russa Moton Museum
16 Year old Barbara Johns led a student boycott of the Robert Russa Morton High School in 1951, demanding that a new school be built for African Americans. Her case was one of the four collected into the Board V Board case
·motonmuseum.org·
Home - Robert Russa Moton Museum
Why Charles M. Schulz Gave Peanuts A Black Character (1968) - Flashbak
Why Charles M. Schulz Gave Peanuts A Black Character (1968) - Flashbak
Charlie Brown is an iconic comic book character known to almost all teachers and students, though the comic strip itself has a deep history. Within that history in the process through which a Black child was introduced to the comic strep in 1968
“There was one strip where Charlie Brown and Franklin had been playing on the beach, and Franklin said, ‘Well, it’s been nice being with you, come on over to my house some time.&nbsp;[My editors] didn’t like that. Another editor protested once when Franklin was sitting in the same row of school desks with Peppermint Patty, and said, ‘We have enough trouble here in the South without you showing the kids together in school.
·flashbak.com·
Why Charles M. Schulz Gave Peanuts A Black Character (1968) - Flashbak
Radio and Television Address to the American People on the Situation in Little Rock. | The American Presidency Project
Radio and Television Address to the American People on the Situation in Little Rock. | The American Presidency Project
Eisenhower's televised speech in September of 1957 is a firm declaration in defense of the rule of law. Although delivered in the early stages of the Civil Rights movement, these words have a certain applicability to the 2020s
Our personal opinions about the decision have no bearing on the matter of enforcement; the responsibility and authority of the Supreme Court to interpret the Constitution are very clear.
They thus demonstrated to the world that we are a nation in which laws, not men, are supreme.
The very basis of our individual rights and freedoms rests upon the certainty that the President and the Executive Branch of Government will support and insure the carrying out of the decisions of the Federal Courts, even, when necessary with all the means at the President's command.
Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
A foundation of our American way of life is our national respect for law.
·presidency.ucsb.edu·
Radio and Television Address to the American People on the Situation in Little Rock. | The American Presidency Project
The Montgomery Story (comic book)
The Montgomery Story (comic book)
Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story is a 16-page comic book about Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and the Montgomery bus boycott published in 1957 by the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR USA). It advocates the principles of nonviolence and provides a primer on nonviolent resistance. Although ignored by the mainstream comics industry, it was widely distributed among civil rights groups, churches, and schools. It helped inspire nonviolent protest movements around the Southern United States, and later in Latin America, South Africa,the Middle East, and elsewhere.
·crmvet.org·
The Montgomery Story (comic book)
Harry S. Ashmore of Arkansas Gazette, Little Rock, AR - The Pulitzer Prizes
Harry S. Ashmore of Arkansas Gazette, Little Rock, AR - The Pulitzer Prizes
As much as students need to be exposed to the the hatred of segregationists in Little Rock, they also need to see the upstanders who took risks by opposing segregation. This is a small collection of editorials published by the Arkansas Gazette that won a pultizer prize in 1958.
·pulitzer.org·
Harry S. Ashmore of Arkansas Gazette, Little Rock, AR - The Pulitzer Prizes
Viola Liuzzo Memorial Marker - Encyclopedia of Alabama
Viola Liuzzo Memorial Marker - Encyclopedia of Alabama
There are many, many forgotten names in the Civil Rights movement that never made it to the taught narrative canon. Teachers can just grab the picture of this monument marker and be given five minutes to learn more about Viola. A simple intro activity to a larger lesson, the process could yield in them a better understanding of the wide spectrum of individuals who were part of the movement
·encyclopediaofalabama.org·
Viola Liuzzo Memorial Marker - Encyclopedia of Alabama