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Freedom Primer No. 1: The Convention Challenge and the Freedom Vote

This pamphlet from the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) explains their unsuccessful 1964 Democratic National Convention challenge in Atlantic City and the MFDP’s plans moving forward from the convention.

Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Civil Rights Movement

Subject

Social Studies

Civics

History

July 18, 2022

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Incident in Hattiesburg

Howard Zinn calls for an end to the police brutality Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) volunteers experience in Mississippi.

Howard Zinn

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Civil Rights Movement

Subject

Social Studies

Civics

History

July 18, 2022

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A. Philip Randolph Oral History Interview 1

This text is a transcription of a meeting between A. Philip Randolph and Harry Truman in which Randolph encourages Truman to pass an executive order barring Jim Crow laws in the armed forces.

Thomas H. Baker

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Civil Rights Movement

Subject

Social Studies

Civics

History

July 18, 2022

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Statement by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee on the War in Vietnam, Fire, Praise for SNCC Statement on Vietnam, Murdered: Sammy Younge

The text is the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee’s official statement denouncing U.S. actions in Vietnam, plus a press release and a newspaper article on SNNC.

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Civil Rights Movement

Subject

Social Studies

Civics

History

July 18, 2022

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Violence Stalks Voter-Registration Workers in Mississippi

This Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) report details violent reprisals toward voter-registration workers in Mississippi.

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Civil Rights Movement

June 22, 2022

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Report on Draft Program (found in Atlanta’s Black Paper, August 25, 1966)

Issued in the August 25, 1966, edition of Atlanta’s Black Paper, this report on the Vietnam War draft describes the violent actions of American military personnel toward peaceful Black protestors over the course of several days.

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Civil Rights Movement

June 22, 2022

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Survey: Current Field Work, Spring, 1963

This Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) report from 1963 details voter registration work and police harassment in South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia and Arkansas.

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Civil Rights Movement

July 6, 2022

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Freedom School Data

This 1964 report was issued by the Council of Federated Organizations in the midst of Freedom Summer to describe their Freedom Schools project. It demonstrates the breadth of the project and the enthusiasm about its potential.

Council of Federated Organizations

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Civil Rights Movement

July 6, 2022

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Report on Voter Registration – Projected Program

This is a 1962 report sent to Ella Baker in which CORE and SNCC representatives outline a future Mississippi voter registration drive.

Tom Gaither (CORE) and Robert Moses (SNCC)

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Civil Rights Movement

July 6, 2022

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Article 1, Section 9 of the U.S. Constitution

Article 1, Section 9 of the U.S. Constitution, the first clause of which restrains congressional powers with respect to the trade in enslaved persons.

Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Thomas Paine, and John Adams

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Slavery

Subject

History

December 13, 2017

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