Teaching the Struggle for Civil Rights
1948-1976
Whitney G. Blankenship, Editor
In Teaching the Struggle for Civil Rights, 1948–1976, traditional civil rights narratives are expanded through the use of an intersectional lens within historical analysis essays that provide additional context to the larger civil rights movements of the period. The pedagogical issues essays focus on common concerns and disputes that often surround the teaching of civil rights. Lesson plans and related resources addressing the topics highlighted by chapter authors are also included in the book. Social studies and history methods professors and curriculum coordinators will find the book helpful for introducing the teaching of civil rights movements. Pre-service and in-service educators can use the lesson plans and resources as models for their own units of study.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Section 1: Historical Analysis Essay
Chapter 1: American Dilemma: Contextualizing the Modern Civil Rights Movement
Robert Cvornyek & Whitney G. Blankenship
Chapter 2: Portraitures of Living in the Era of Legal Separation: Baltimore, Maryland
Gary Homana
Chapter 3: Education for Emancipation: The Mississippi Freedom School
Kristen Duncan
Chapter 4: Invisible Leader: The Hidden History of Septima Clark in the Civil Rights Movement
Chaddrick Gallaway
Chapter 5: “They Never Lynched You, They Never Called You N*****”: Black Athletes, Critical Patriotism and the 20th Century Freedom Movement
Christopher Busey & Paul Mencke
Chapter 6: From the Margin to Center Stage: Teaching El Movimiento
Ellen Bigler
Chapter 7: The Asian American Movement & Civil Rights
Phonsia Nie & Noreen Naseem Rodriguez
Section 2: Pedagogical Issues Essays
Chapter 8: Teaching the Long Civil Rights Movement
Aaron Bruewer & Jayne Beilke
Chapter 9: The Teaching of Lynching: Considering a Pedagogic Necessity
Bryan Gibbs
Chapter 10: From the Bottom Up: Citizenship Education during the Civil Rights Movement
LaGarrett King & John Moore
Chapter 11: It was never that simple: Complicating the Master Narrative around school desegregation
ArCasia James
Chapter 12: The GI Forum, Felix Longoria, and El Movimiento: Understanding the Latina/o Civil Rights Movement through Critical Historical Analysis
Cinthia Salinas, Amanda Vickery & Noreen Naseem Rodriguez
Section 3: Lesson Plans & Resources
Chapter 13: Lesson Plans and Resources
Interrogating the Master Narrative of the Civil Rights Movement
Jayne Bielke
Voices of Baltimore
Gary Homana
Black Athletes & the Civil Rights Movement
Christopher Busey
The Civil Rights Movement & School Desegregation
ArCasia James
Septima Clark “The air has finally gotten to a place that we can breathe it together"
LaGarrett King
Mississippi Freedom Schools
LaGarrett King
The Impact of Freedom Schools on Participants
LaGarrett King
Yuri Kochiyama & the Asian Civil Rights Movement
Noreen Naseem Rodriguez
Asian-American School Segregation
Noreen Naseem Rodriguez
Teaching the Chicano Movement
Ellen Bigler
Index