You Came Here to Die, Didn’t You – Content Standards and Discussion Questions
Videos of Interest
American Experience.Eyes on the Prize | PBS
The History of the Ku Klux Klan: A Secret History
The Legacy of Mary Ellen Pleasant, KVIE
PBS Frontline: Separate and Unequal “Sixty years after the Supreme Court declared separate schools for black and white children unconstitutional, school segregation is making a comeback. What’s behind the growing racial divide in American schools — and what’s the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education?”
Jumping Into History: The Army’s First African-American Paratroopers
Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
Mississippi Inferno – This is the untold story of Mississippi’s African-American landowners of the 1960s and their vital role in a paving the way for the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Videos from Dr. Karen McCord’s Civil Rights Travel Course
and where to get a copy
- Mighty Times: The Children’s March
- Call and Response
- The Witness, From the Balcony of Room 306
- Found Voices: The Slave Narratives
- Black History, Civil Rights Movement, From Civil War Through Today
- Voices of Civil Rights
- Freedom Riders
- The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till
- The Long Walk Home – or rent from Blockbuster.com or Netflix.com
- The Murder of Emmette Till
- The Rosa Parks Story – or rent from Blockbuster.com
- In Rememberance of Martin
- George Washington Carver – produced by Kaw Valley Films, Inc (913) 631-3040
Suggested Reading List for SCOPE Volunteers 
Books
Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe on slavery
Events in the Life of a Slave, Harriet A. Jacobs
Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain onSlavery
The Warmth of Other Suns, Isabel Wilkerson on The Great Migration
Simeon’s Story, Simeon Wright with Herb Boyd on Emmett Till – An Eyewitness Account of the Kidnapping of Emmett Till
While the World Watched, Carolyn Maull McKinstry with Denise George on the Birmingham church bombing
The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. Dubois
100 Years of Lynchings, Ralph Ginzburg
Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America, Lerone Bennett, Jr.
Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life, Wynton Marsalas
An Idea Whose Time Has Come: Two Presidents, Two Parties, and the Battle for the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Todd S. Purdum
Better Than Them, The Unmaking of an Alabama Racist
by S. McEachin Otts – “You are better than them. Don’t forget it,” a grandmother whispers to her grandson, S. M. “Mac” Otts. The year is 1965, and an eighteen-year-old boy stands curbside in his Black Belt hometown-weapon in hand-defiant before a peaceful civil rights demonstration
Civil Rights Movement
Freedom Summer, Doug McAdam
Hands on the Freedom Plow, Holsaert, Noonan, Richardson, Robinson, Young, Zellner
Toward the Meeting of the Waters: Currents in the Civil Rights Movement of South Carolina during the Twentieth Century, Winfred B. Moore Jr. and Orville Vernon Burton
The SCOPE of Freedom: The Leadership of Hosea Williams with Dr. King’s Summer ’65 Student Volunteers, Willy Siegel Leventhal
So The Heffners Left McComb, Hodding Carter
Magazines
The Ku Klux Klan: A Secret History, 1998, Southern Poverty Law Center
Free at Last: A History of the Civil Rights Movement and Those Who Died in the Struggle, Southern Poverty Law Center
Close to Slavery: Guestworker Programs in the United States, Southern Poverty Law Center
Articles
Martin Luther King and the Black Revolutionary Tradition by Eric Mann
Links
Civil Rights Movement Veterans
We Shall Overcome; Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement
ACRL The Civil Rights Movement
- historical essay
- digital document collection
- Freedom Summer PowerPoint Presentation
- Teachers materials
