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The United States Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s

In this one time class students will learn about the student non-violent coordinating committee, also known as SNCC through the lens of historical fiction and reenacted by the teacher, as a living musuem. #history

Taren Mangual

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What's included

1 live meeting

55 mins in-class hours

Class Experience

US Grade 8 - 11

In this class the teacher will recreate a historical setting to simulate a past time period, providing visitors with an experiential interpretation of history. In this way we will explore, the United States Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.

Learners will be able to explore the struggle and sacrifice for African-American civil rights, through the eyes of a student. This historical fiction is a reflection of actual students who sacrificed their lives for equal rights.

Learners will be able to:

-Watch a live performance piece performed by the teacher that includes facts about the Civil Rights Movement
- Watch actual clips about the Civil Rights Movement
-Explore historical events that lead to the Civil Rights Movement
-Use the remainder of class to discuss learner questions

Learning Goals

The goal of this class is to teach about people and organizations that worked together towards gaining equal rights for U.S. citizens.
Students will be able to explore a moment in American History
The hope is for students to be able to apply what they learned towards their understanding of the people and culture in the United States today.

Other Details

Parental Guidance

This class includes actual images from the Civil Rights movements, some of which are graphic and violent in nature.

External Resources

Learners will not need to use any apps or websites beyond the standard Outschool tools.

Sources

We Shall Overcome: Martin Luther King and the Black Freedom Struggle Peter Albert and Ronald Hoffman (editors) Black Power David Aretha Desert Rose: the Life and Legacy of Coretta Scott King Edythe Scott Bagley The Long Shadow of Little Rock: a memoir Daisy Bates Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High Melba Patillo Beals Freedom Summer Sally Belfrage Civil Rights: The 1960s Freedom Struggle Rhoda Blumberg At Canaan's edge: America in the King years, 1965-68 Parting the Water: America in the King Years 1954-1963 Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-1965 Taylor Branch Ready from Within: Septima Clark and the civil rights movement Cynthia Stokes Brown, editor Free At Last: A History of the Civil Rights Movement and Those Who Died in the Struggle Sara Bullard Living Voices Rachel Atkins We Are Not Afraid: The Story of the Civil Rights Campaign for Mississippi Seth Cagin and Phillip Dray Moving the Mountain: Women working for social change Ellen Cantarow Sing for Freedom Guy and Candie Carawan Eyes on the Prize, Documents, Speeches, and First Hand Accounts from the Black Freedom Struggle In Struggle: SNCC and the black awakening of the 1960s Reporting Civil Rights: American Journalism 1941-1973, Volumes 1 and 2 Claybourne Carson Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans tell about life in the segregated South William Chafe, Raymond Gavins and Robert Korstad Women in the civil rights movement, trailblazers and torchbearers, 1941-1965 Vicki Crawford, Jaqueline Anne Rouse and Barbara Woods, editors Deep in Our Hearts, Nine White Women in the Freedom Movement Mississippi Harmony, Memoirs of a Freedom Fighter Silver Rights Constance Curry Weary Feet, Rested Souls, A Guided History of the Civil Rights Movement Townsend Davis Local People: the Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi John Dittmer A Long Night Ellen Douglas Step by Step Douglas Dowd and Mary Nichols Outside the Magic Circle: The autobiography of Virginia Foster Durr Virginia Foster Durr I May Not Get There With You: The True Martin Luther King Jr. Michael Dyson Outside Agitator: Jon Daniels and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama Charles Eagles Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: An Anthology of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement Susan Erenrich Selma 1965: The March That Changed the South Charles E. Fager Martin Luther King Jr. To Redeem the Soul of America: the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Martin Luther King Jr. Adam Fairclough The Making of Black Revolutionaries Jim Foreman Subversive Southerner, Ann Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South Catherine Fosl Bearing the Cross The FBI and Martin Luther King Jr. Protest at Selma: Martin Luther King and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 David Garrow March On Washington: August 28, 1963 Thomas Gentile Ella Baker: Freedom Bound Joanne Grant A Circle of Trust: Remembering SNCC Cheryl Lynn Greenberg The Children David Halberstam Voices Of Freedom: An oral history of the civil rights movement from the 1950's through the 1980's Henry Hampton, Steve Fayer and Sarah Flynn The Movement Lorraine Hansberry and Elizabeth Sutherland Martinez Bayard Rustin: Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movement James Haskins Amendment XV: Race and the Right to Vote Jeff Hay, editor Defining Moments: The Voting Rights Act of 1965 Laurie Collier Hillstrom Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC Edited by Holsaert, Noonan, Richardson, Robinson, Young and Zellner To the Mountaintop Charlayne Hunter-Gault Civil Rights Movement: A Photographic History 1954-68 Steven Kasher The Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr. Why We Can’t Wait Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery story Martin Luther King Jr. Freedom Song Mary King A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School Carlotta Walls LaNier Should the Voting Age be Lowered? Ronnie Lankford, editor Debating the Civil Rights Movement: 1945-1968 Steven Lawson & Charles Payne For Freedom’s Sake: The life of Fannie Lou Hamer Chana Kai Lee Walking With the Wind John Lewis and Michael D'Orso Documentary History of the Modern Civil Rights Movement Peter Levy Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong James W. Loewen The Negro Revolt Louis Lomax Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement Danny Lyon Race, Reform, and Rebellion: the Second Reconstruction of Black America from 1945-1982 Marable Manning A Fire You Can't Put Out: The Civil Rights Life of Birmingham's Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth Andrew Michael Manis The Montgomery Bus Boycott Katie Marsico Letters From Mississippi Elizabeth Sutherland Martinez Beaches, Blood, and Ballots, A Black Doctor's Civil Rights Struggle Gilbert R. Mason, M.D., with James Patterson Smith We Are the People: Voices from the Other Side of American History Nathaniel May and Clint Willis, editors Freedom Summer Doug McAdam Freedom Rights: New Perspectives of the Civil Rights Movement Danielle McGuire and John Dittmer, editors Carry Me Home: Birmingham Alabama, Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution Diane McWhorter Voices in Our Blood: America's Best on the Civil Rights Movement Jon Meacham, editor CORE: A Study in the Civil Rights Movement 1942-1968 Black Protest in the Sixties August Meier, editor The Lynching of Emmett Till: A Documentary Narrative Christopher Metress, editor Like a Holy Crusade: Mississippi 1964 Nicolaus Mills The Origins of the Civil rights Movement: Black communities organizing for change Aldon Morris Black Faces of War: A Legacy of Honor from the American Revolution to Today Robert V. Morris Radical Equations: Organizing Math Literacy in America's Schools Robert Moses & Charlie Cobb Civil Rights Movement: References & Resources Paul Murray Let the Trumpet Sound: a life of Martin Luther King Jr Stephen Oates Freedom’s Daughters: The unsung heroines of the civil rights movement from 1830 to 1970 Lynne Olson From Southern Wrongs to Civil Rights: The Memoir of White Civil Rights Activist Sara Parsons I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle Charles Payne Freedom Ride James Peck In the Struggle Against Jim Crow: Lulu B. White and the NAACP, 1900-1957 Merline Pitre Divided Minds: Intellectuals and the Civil Rights Movement Carol Posgrove Free At Last? The Civil Rights Movement and the People Who Made It Fred Powledge My Soul is Rested: movement days in the Deep South remembered Howell Raines Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision, Barbara Ransby If White Kids Die, Memories of a Civil Rights Movement Volunteer Dick J. Reavis The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It Jo Ann Gibson Robinson How Long? How Long? African-American Women and the Struggle for Civil Rights Belinda Robnett Jackson, Mississippi: An American Chronicle of Struggle and Schism John Salter Everybody Says Freedom Pete Seeger & Bob Reiser Until Justice Rolls Down: The Birmingham Church Bombing Case Frank Sikora Seattle in Black and White Joan Singler, Jean During, Bettylou Valentine and Maid Adams Civil Rights Childhood Jordana Y. Shakoor The Struggle for Black Equality, 1964-1980 Harvard Sitkoff Freedom Facts and Firsts: 400 Years of the African American Civil Rights Experience Jessie Smith & Linda Wynn From Selma to Sorrow: The Life and Death of Viola Liuzzo Freedom Walk: Mississippi or Bust Mary Stanton Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime that Changed America Mamie Till-Mobley and Christopher Benson Faces of Freedom Summer: The Photographs of Herbert Randall Bobs Tusa A Testament of Hope: the Essential Writing of Martin Luther King Jr. James Melvin Washington, editor Freedom Summer Bruce Watson Selma, Lord, Selma Sheyann Webb and Rachel West Nelson In a Madhouse's Din: Civil Rights Coverage by Mississippi's Daily Press, 1948-1968 Susan Weill Freedom Bound: History of the American Civil Rights Movement Robert Weisbrot An Eyewitness History of the Civil Rights Movement Sanford Wexler Eyes on the Prize: America's civil rights years 1954-1965 My Soul Looks Back in Wonder: Voices of the Civil Rights Experience Juan Williams A Death in the Delta: The Emmett Till story Stephen J. Whitifield The Strange Career of Jim Crow C. Vann Woodward The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow Richard Wormser Soldiers of Freedom: An Illustrated History of African Americans in the Armed Forces Kai Wright An Easy Burden Andrew Young SNCC The New Abolitionists Voices of a People’s History of the United States Howard Zinn FILM & VIDEO 4 Little Girls The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman Eyes on the Prize, Parts 1 and 2 Freedom Song Ghosts of Mississippi The Long Walk Home Malcolm X Martin's big words: the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Mississippi, America Mississippi Burning The Murder of Emmett Till Murder in Mississippi The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry The Rosa Parks Story Rosewood Ruby Bridges Standing on my Sisters’ Shoulders A Time for Justice We Shall Not Be Moved With All Deliberate Speed WEBSITES http://www.crmvet.org/ Civil Rights Movement Veterans http://www.core-online.org/ Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) http://www.thekingcenter.org/ The Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change http://www.civilrights.org/ Leadership Conference on Civil Rights http://www.naacp.org/ National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) http://www.nul.org/ National Urban League http://sclcnational.org/ Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) http://www.tolerance.org/ The Southern Poverty Law Center http://www.sunflowerfreedom.org/ Sunflower County Freedom Project http://www.ibiblio.org/sncc/index.html SNCC 1960-1966 http://mlkday.gov/ MLK Day of Service http://www.lawyerscomm.org/ Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law http://www.africanaonline.com Africana Online http://www.4littlegirls.com/ Birmingham Church bombing http://www.nps.gov/brvb/index.htm Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site http://biology.clc.uc.edu/Fankhauser/Society/freedom_rides/Freedom_Ride_DBF.htm Freedom Rides: Recollections of David Fankhauser http://www.sitins.com/index.shtml Greensboro Sit-ins: Launch of a Civil Rights Movement. http://useekufind.com/peace/ In Memory of Four Little Girls: Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing http://www.centralhigh57.org/ Little Rock Central High 40th Anniversary http://www.brothermalcolm.net/ Malcolm X: a research site http://www.usm.edu/crdp/ Civil Rights Documentation Project http://www.jofreeman.com/photos.htm Movement photos by SCLC staff member Jo Freeman http://www.kodak.com/US/en/corp/features/moore/mooreIndex.shtml Powerful Days In Black and White: Civil rights photography of Charles Moore. http://www.tallahassee.com/legacy/special/boycott/index.html The Ride to Equality: 50 Years after the Tallahassee Bus Boycott http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/index.html African American History http://www.albanycivilrightsinstitute.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1&Itemid=1 Albany Civil Rights Movement Institute http://usinfo.org/enus/life/people/mlk/homepage.htm The Civil Rights Movement and the Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. http://www.usm.edu/oralhistory/ Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage at the University of Southern Mississippi http://www.sitinmovement.org/ International Civil Rights Center & Museum http://www.ferris.edu/news/jimcrow/ Jim Crow Museum http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aointro.html The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/ Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute http://frank.mtsu.edu/~vvesper/king.html Martin Luther King Jr.: A Nation Remembers http://www.abbeville.com/excerpts.asp?ISBN=0789201232 Excerpt from The Civil Rights Movement by Steven Kasher http://motonmuseum.com/ The Robert Russa Moton Museum: A Center for the Study of Civil Rights in Education http://www.lib.alasu.edu/natctr/ National Center for the Study of Civil Rights and African-American Culture at Alabama State University http://www.civilrightsmuseum.org/ National Civil Rights Museum http://mdah.state.ms.us/arrec/digital_archives/sovcom/scagencycasehistory.php Mississippi Sovereignty Commission Archives. http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/index.htm We Shall Overcome sites: National Historic Register of places of the Civil Rights Movement http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aaworld/ PBS: African American World http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/ PBS: The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/home.htm The History of Jim Crow http://withoutsanctuary.org/ Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America http://www.ls.cc.al.us/blackhistory/blackhistory.html Celebrating Black History 365 http://www.rockthevote.com/ Rock the Vote http://www.vote-smart.org/ Project Vote Smart http://www.youthvote.org/ Youth Vote Coalition http://www.studentpirgs.org/new-voters-project New Voters Project http://hrw.org/ Human Rights Watch: Defending Human Rights Worldwide Anti-Defamation League: A World of Difference Institute Anti-Bias Education & Diversity Training http://www.adl.org/education/edu_awod/default.asp Facing History and Ourselves http://www.facinghistory.org/ American Civil Liberties Union http://www.aclu.org/ Library of Congress Primary Source Sets http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/primarysourcesets/ History Matters http://historymatters.gmu.edu/ Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture Hands on the Freedom Plow panel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOUikmeVu-A We Ain't What We Ought to Be: The Black Freedom Struggle from Emancipation to Obama http://blackfreedomstruggle.modhist.ox.ac.uk/index.html

Taren Mangual

Joined December, 2019

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Teacher expertise and credentials

New Jersey Teaching Certificate in Music/Theater/Arts

Master's Degree in Education from New York University

Please note that I am a certified K-12 Theater Teacher with a Masters in Educational Theatre in Colleges and Communities from New York University. My background and education allows me to use theater in order to teach academic and social topics in an engaging way. I have also performed a similar play for Middle and High school assemblies across New York and New Jersey.

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Ages: 13-18

3-10 learners per class

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The United States Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s

Taren Mangual

What's included

1 live meeting

Class Experience

US Grade 8 - 11

Learning Goals

Other Details

Parental Guidance

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Taren Mangual

Teacher expertise and credentials

New Jersey Teaching Certificate in Music/Theater/Arts

Master's Degree in Education from New York University

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