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.

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.

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