Text Set
Civil Rights Movement
ASHLEY DREAHN
Text Set Information
 Concept:
 The concept of this text set is to provide resources for students learning
about the civil rights movement.
 Grade Level:
 High School
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History
 Teks:
 §113.32.
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(7) History. The student understands the impact of the American civil rights
movement. The student is expected to:
 (A) trace the historical development of the civil rights movement in the
18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, including the 13th, 14th, 15th amendments;
 (B) identify significant leaders of the civil rights movement, including
Martin Luther King, Jr.;
 (C) evaluate government efforts, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964, to
achieve equality in the United States; and
 (D) identify changes in the United States that have resulted from the civil
rights movement such as increased participation of minorities in the
political process.
Fiction Book
 Book:
 Short Stories of the Civil Rights
Movement: An Anthology
 Author:
 Margaret Early Whitt
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Editor
 Annotation:
 The sections into which the stories are
grouped parallel the news headlines of the
day: School Desegregation (1954 on), Sitins (1960 on), Marches and
Demonstrations (1963 on), and Acts of
Violence. In the last section, Retrospective,
characters look back on their personal
involvement with the movement. Twenty
writers-eleven black and nine white-are
represented in the collection. Ten stories
were written during the 1960s. That the
others were written long after the
movement's heyday suggests the potency
of that time as a continuing source of
creative inspiration.
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Source: Amazon.com
Whitt, Margaret Early (editor). Short Stories of the Civil Rights Movement: An Anthology. University of Georgia Press, 2006.
External Basis of Selection
 Editorial Review on Amazon.com
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"I know of no other collection with the focus of this fine
anthology. Readers who worked in the movement and who
grew up during that era will find these stories especially
fascinating. But Short Stories of the Civil Rights Movement is a
must-read for anyone who wants to understand the many
perspectives on, and the myriad emotions behind, the
historical events of one of the most transformative periods in
American history.”
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- Suzanne Jones, author of ‘Race Mixing: Southern Fiction since
the Sixties’
More Information
 How this text will be used:
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I will use this book as a
choice of books to choose
from for literature circles
in the classroom.
Also, this book will be
available for check out
from my reading shelves.
This will be a
recommended reader to
students.
 Product Details:
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Paperback: 343 pages
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Publisher: University of
Georgia Press (November
2006)
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Language: English
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ISBN-10: 0820328510
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ISBN-13: 978-0820328515
Non Fiction Book
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Book:
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Author:
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Warriors Don’t Cry: A Searing Memoir of the
Battle to Integrate Little Rock’s Central High
Melba Pattillo Beals
Annotation:
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Beals, one of the nine black students who
integrated Central High School in Little Rock,
AR, in 1957, tells an incredible story of faith,
family love, friendships, and strong personal
commitment. Drawing from the diaries she
kept, the author easily puts readers in her
saddle oxfords as she struggles against those
people in both the white and black
communities who would have segregation
continue.
She shares the physical, mental, and
emotional torture and abuse she suffered at
the hands of teenagers and adults. She also
shares the support, the encouragement, and
the help she received from both whites and
blacks.
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Source: School Library Journal
Beals, Melba Pattillo. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High. Washington Square Press, 1995.
External Basis of Selection
 From Library Journal
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Beals, one of the "Little Rock Nine" and a former NBC reporter, writes
movingly of desegregating Little Rock's Central High School in 1957-58. Using
diaries and contemporary media coverage, she re-creates a time of fear and
tenaciously held hopes. The horrors the nine black students faced are told in a
teenager's voice, simply and sadly. Robbed of normal adolescence, Beals grew
up fast. Her gratitude to the 101st Airborne for their protection stands in stark
contrast to her bewilderment over the behavior of Governor Faubus and school
officials, who refused to enforce even rudimentary discipline to prevent the
daily torture. Beals credits family and friends, along with Daisy Bates, the late
Thurgood Marshall, and the press, for their support. Though her use of "recreated" conversations does not always work, this remains a highly readable
tale of courage in the face of persecution that deserves to be read, especially by
young people. School libraries should consider, and all libraries with strong
black history collections will want to purchase.
--Donna L. Cole, Leeds P.L., Ala.
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Source: Amazon.com
More Information
 How this text will be used:
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I will use this book as a
choice of books to choose
from for literature circles
in the classroom.
Also, this book will be
available for check out
from my reading shelves.
Possibly used as a
mandatory reading
selection.
 Product Details
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Paperback: 312 pages
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Publisher: Washington
Square Press (February 1,
1995)
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Language: English
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ISBN-10: 0671866397
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ISBN-13: 978-0671866396
Computer Resource
 Website:
 Voices of Civil Rights
 Authors:
 AARP
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Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
(LCCR)
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Library of Congress
 Link:
 http://www.voicesofcivilrights.org/ind
ex.html
 Annotation: (info. from the site)
 This Voices of Civil Rights website
features a searchable online archive
of selected stories submitted by
people from every corner of the
country and from all walks of life. In
addition, there are interactive
features, essays, interviews, and
special reports.
 The era of struggle involving
thousands of African Americans and
others in the 1950s and 1960s was a
pivotal period in civil rights history.
It captivated the world and inspired
millions. And yet America's civil
rights story also includes those who
battled discrimination in the
decades before and after. It
transcends race, age, gender, and
national origin. Voices of Civil
Rights hopes to preserve the entire
story. It is our way of honoring the
quest for freedom that continues to
build the nation and change the
world.
AARP, LCCR, Library of Congress. Voices of Civil Rights. 2004. 11 April 2009 <http://www.voicesofcivilrights.org/index.html>.
External Basis of Selection
 The creators of the
website are creditable:
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This site is a joint project
of :
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AARP
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Leadership Conference on
Civil Rights (LCCR)
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Library of Congress
 Awards Received
More Information
 How this text will be used:
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This would be a useful site
to show students.
Also good to have students
explore it on their own.
Recommend for research
source.
Create an assignment
involving use of the
website.
Includes many resources
for the classroom to pull
from the site.
Picture Book
 Book:
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The Civil Rights Movement: A
Photographic History, 1954-68
 Author:
 Steven Kasher
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Annotation:
 This volume tells the story of the American
civil rights movement through the rousing
and often wrenching photographs that
recorded, promoted and protected it. After
an introduction explaining the vital
importance of photography to the
movement, the book proceeds from the
Montgomery bus boycott through the
student, local and national movements; the
big marches in Washington and Selma;
Freedom Summer; Malcolm X and Black
Power; and the death of Martin Luther King.
Each chapter begins with a fast-paced
narrative of a crucial event in the movement,
complemented by a portfolio of effective and
evocative photographs of the subject.
Ranging from the well-known to the rare,
these images were shot by photographers
including Richard Avedon, Danny Lyon,
Charles Moore, Gordon Parks, Dan Weiner,
and over 50 others. Many of the pictures are
accompanied by remembrances and analysis
by various photographers and participants.
The book also features a concise chronology
of the major civil rights events of the period
and suggestions for additional reading.
 Source: Amazon.com
Kasher, Steven. The Civil Rights Movement: A Photographic History, 1954-68 . Abbeville Press, 1996.
External Basis of Selection
 From Publishers Weekly
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The civil rights movement has produced enduring images, and the
famous ones are collected here: separate (and unequal) white and black
water fountains, police dogs on the streets of Birmingham, Martin
Luther King proclaiming "I Have a Dream," Memphis strikers with their
"I Am a Man" placards. As New York City photographer Kasher observes,
"No other American pictures radiate so brightly a collective passion for
justice." This book, which collects some 150 black-and-white photos, is
indeed a history, offering many lesser-known images that also resonate.
See legendary organizer Septima Clark lead older women in a citizenship
class; a bespectacled Elizabeth Eckford, one of the "Little Rock Nine,"
walk stoically ahead of jeering white students; Julian Bond pose with
fellow SNCC volunteers, seemingly too young to help change history; and
a Mississippi-delta organizing house that has painted the word Freedom
on a cross burned by the Klan. Kasher's chapter introductions are lucid
overviews of the movement, while the captions, some of which reproduce
the original, stilted wire-service captions are also effective and
informative. A moving tribute. Author tour.
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Source: Amazon.com
More Information
 How this text will be used:
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This book will be available
for check out from my
reading shelves.
This will be a recommended
reader to students.
This book may be shown to
the class.
The pictures will provide
good classroom and lesson
material.
 Product Details
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Paperback: 256 pages
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Publisher: Abbeville Press
(September 1996)
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Language: English
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ISBN-10: 0789206560
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ISBN-13: 978-0789206565
Primary Source
 Primary Source:
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 Annotation:
“I Have a Dream” Speech
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 Author:
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Martin Luther King Jr.
"I Have A Dream" is the popular
name given to the public speech by
Martin Luther King, Jr., when he
spoke of his desire for a future where
blacks and whites, among others,
would coexist harmoniously as equals.
King's delivery of the speech on
August 28, 1963, from the steps of the
Lincoln Memorial during the March
on Washington for Jobs and Freedom,
was a defining moment of the
American Civil Rights Movement.
Delivered to over 250,000 civil rights
supporters, the speech is often
considered to be one of the greatest
and most notable speeches in history
and was ranked the top American
speech of the 20th century by a 1999
poll of scholars of public address.
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Source: Wikipedia.com
I Have a Dream. By Martin Luther King Jr. Lincoln Memorial, Washington. 28 August 1963.
External Basis of Selection
 According to U.S. Representative John Lewis, who
also spoke that day as the President of the Student
Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, "Dr. King had
the power, the ability and the capacity to transform
those steps on the Lincoln Memorial into a modern
day pulpit. By speaking the way he did, he educated,
he inspired, he informed not just the people there,
but people throughout America and unborn
generations.”
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Source: Wikipedia.com
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 How this text will be used:
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Assignment interpreting
the speech.
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Watch a video of him
giving the speech.
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Read aloud to class.
Nonfiction Book
 Book:
 Voices of Freedom: An Oral History of
the Civil Rights Movement from the
1950s Through the 1980s
 Authors:
 Henry Hampton
 Steve Fayer
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Annotation:
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From the Inside Flap
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In this monumental volume, Henry
Hampton, creator and executive producer of
the acclaimed PBS series Eyes on the Prize,
and Steve Fayer, series writer, draw upon
nearly one thousand interviews with civil
rights activists, politicians, reporters, Justice
Department officials, and hundreds of
ordinary people who took part in the
struggle, weaving a fascinating narrative of
the civil rights movement told by the people
who lived it.
This remarkable oral history brings to life
country's great struggle for civil rights as no
conventional narrative can. You will hear the
voices of those who defied the blackjacks,
who went to jail, who witnessed and policed
the movement; of those who stood for and
against it - voices from the heart of America.
Marches and murders, Martin Luther King,
Jr. and Malcolm X, JFK and LBJ--from the
bus boycott in Montgomery to busing in
Boston, from the marches on Selma to the
riots in Miami, Voices of Freedom
illuminates the long, impassioned,
sometimes painful and sometimes joyful
struggle for a truly democratic society that
continues today.
Fayer, Henry Hampton and Steve. Voices of Freedom: An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s Through the 1980s . Bantam, 1991.
External Basis of Selection
 From the Back Cover
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"I can hardly wait for my daughter - and all our children and grandchildren=
to read this book"
-- Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple
"Something much greater than the sum if its parts, a taut and vivid narrative
on an epic scale--compelling--marvelously diverse.
-- Los Angeles Times
"A vast choral pageant that recounts the momentous work of t he civil rights
struggle."
-- The New York Times Book Review
"Utterly fascinating. Voices of Freedom tells the greatest American story
ever told. These voices are extraordinary. So is the book."
-- Pat Conroy, author of The Prince of Tides
"Through the words of the victims, the villains, and the victorious, who
together changed the course of America's sadly racist history. Voices of
Freedom gives us the opportunity to glimpse the shining spirits of our
heroic people, black and white, female and male, often through chuckles and
often through tears."
-- Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple
More Information
 How this text will be used:
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I will use this book as a
choice of books to choose
from for literature circles in
the classroom.
Also, this book will be
available for check out from
my reading shelves.
This will be a recommended
reader to students.
Possibly used as a mandatory
reading selection.
 Product Details
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Paperback: 720 pages
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Publisher: Bantam
(February 1, 1991)
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Language: English
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ISBN-10: 0553352326
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ISBN-13: 978-0553352320
References
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Works Cited:
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AARP, LCCR, Library of Congress. Voices of Civil Rights. 2004. 11 April 2009
<http://www.voicesofcivilrights.org/index.html>.
Beals, Melba Pattillo. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's
Central High. Washington Square Press, 1995.
Fayer, Henry Hampton and Steve. Voices of Freedom: An Oral History of the Civil Rights
Movement from the 1950s Through the 1980s . Bantam, 1991.
I Have a Dream. By Martin Luther King Jr. Lincoln Memorial, Washington. 28 August 1963.
Kasher, Steven. The Civil Rights Movement: A Photographic History, 1954-68 . Abbeville Press,
1996.
Whitt, Margaret Early (editor). Short Stories of the Civil Rights Movement: An Anthology.
University of Georgia Press, 2006.
Other Sources:
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Pictures from:
 Google.com image search
Book information from:
 Amazon.com
Other information from:
 Wikipedia.com