Prologue
Alabama Centennial
Naomi Madgett
Creating Context
“Until Justice Rolls Down Like Waters” • The Faces of Civil Rights • Chronology of the Civil Rights Movement • Concept Vocabulary
Cluster One: What Are the Roots of the Civil Rights Movement?
Thinking Skill: Analyzing
- Ku Klux (poem)
- Langston Hughes
- We Wear the Mask (poem)
- Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Booker T. and W. E. B. (poem)
- Dudley Randall
- Incident (poem)
- Countee Cullen
- On Being Crazy (vignette)
- W. E. B. Du Bois
- Surviving Jim Crow (autobiography)
- From Uncle Tom’s Children, Richard Wright
- The Revolt of the Evil Fairies (short story)
- Ted Poston
Cluster Two: 1954–1961: What Were the Critical Moments That Sparked the Civil Rights Movement?
Thinking Skill: Evaluating Cause and Effect
- Brown v. Board of Education (U.S. Supreme Court decision)
- Earl Warren
- Emmett Till, 1955 (interviews)
- Henry Hampton
- Rosa Parks (article)
- Rita Dove
- Integration (autobiography)
- Melba Pattillo Beals
- Bigger Than a Hamburger (essay)
- Harvard Sitkoff
- 1961: The Freedom Rides (essay)
- Pete Seeger and Bob Reiser
- Girl Held Without Bail (poem)
- Margaret Walker
Cluster Three: 1962–1968: What Resistance Did the Civil Rights Movement Meet?
Thinking Skill: Comparing and Contrasting
- Inaugural Address (speech)
- Governor George C. Wallace
- Birmingham (speech)
- President John F. Kennedy
- I Have a Dream (speech)
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- Birmingham 1963 (poem)
- Raymond R. Patterson
- Liars Don’t Qualify (short story)
- Junius Edwards
- Tomorrow Is for Our Martyrs (autobiography)
- James Farmer
- Address to a Meeting in New York, 1964 (speech)
- Malcolm X
- Revolutionary Dreams (poem)
- Nikki Giovanni
Cluster Four: Thinking on Your Own
Thinking Skill: Synthesizing
- An American Problem (essay)
- Wim Coleman
- The Power of One (memorium)
- Staff of People magazine
- I Was Born at the Wrong Time (poem)
- Angela Shelf Medearis
- The Church of the Almighty White Man (article)
- Angie Cannon and Warren Cohen
- Little Rock Warriors Thirty Years Later (autobiography)
- Melba Pattillo Beals