Students and the civil rights movement 2013

Students and the Civil Rights Movement

Aaron WolfeColonial Williamsburg Teacher InstituteHigh School Session, 2013

Strategy

0Education was primary target 0 Graduate schools, universities, grade schools

0Symbolic and practical0 Inherently involved students

Methods

0Legal 0Non-violent resistance (Direct action)

0 Marches, Sit-ins, Teach-ins, Boycotts

Gandhi

0 First person to use non-violence to political scene on large scale

0 Influences: Plato’s Apology, William Salter's Ethical Religion (1889); Henry David Thoreau's On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (1847); Leo Tolstoy's The Kingdom of God Is Within You (1893), A Letter to a Hindu (1908)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MKGandhi.jpg

Bayard Rustin

0Founding member of CORE

0Organized 1947 Journey of Reconciliation

0Taught MLK Gandhian nonviolence

0Organized 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

0Gay rights activist

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/ppmsc.01272/

James Lawson

0Trained in non-violent direct action

0CORE activist0Headquartered in

Nashville: Vanderbilt, Fisk

0Worked for SCLC and SNCC

http://breachofpeace.com/blog/?p=18

Methods

0How?0 Workshops0 Practice

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Children’s Crusade

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Children’s Crusade

0Birmingham, AL, May 2-5, 19630Massive arrests- 1,000 on May 2. 3,000 in jail by May

100Bull Connor0Dogs and Fire hoses0News media

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http://maghis.oxfordjournals.org/content/19/1/31/F2.large.jpg

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Assessment

0Did it work?0Why?

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