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Civil Rights Childhood

Author : Katharine Capshaw
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452943702
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Civil Rights Childhood written by Katharine Capshaw and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Childhood joy, pleasure, and creativity are not often associated with the civil rights movement. Their ties to the movement may have faded from historical memory, but these qualities received considerable photographic attention in that tumultuous era. Katharine Capshaw’s Civil Rights Childhood reveals how the black child has been—and continues to be—a social agent that demands change. Because children carry a compelling aura of human value and potential, images of African American children in the wake of Brown v. Board of Education had a powerful effect on the fight for civil rights. In the iconography of Emmett Till and the girls murdered in the 1963 Birmingham church bombings, Capshaw explores the function of children’s photographic books and the image of the black child in social justice campaigns for school integration and the civil rights movement. Drawing on works ranging from documentary photography, coffee-table and art books, and popular historical narratives and photographic picture books for the very young, Civil Rights Childhood sheds new light on images of the child and family that portrayed liberatory models of blackness, but it also considers the role photographs played in the desire for consensus and closure with the rise of multiculturalism. Offering rich analysis, Capshaw recovers many obscure texts and photographs while at the same time placing major names like Langston Hughes, June Jordan, and Toni Morrison in dialogue with lesser-known writers. An important addition to thinking about representation and politics, Civil Rights Childhood ultimately shows how the photobook—and the aspirations of childhood itself—encourage cultural transformation.

Racial Innocence

Author : Robin Bernstein
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814787088
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Racial Innocence written by Robin Bernstein and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, Outstanding Book Award, Association for Theatre in Higher Education Winner, Grace Abbott Best Book Award, Society for the History of Children and Youth Winner, Book Award, Children's Literature Association Winner, Lois P. Rudnick Book Prize, New England American Studies Association Winner, IRSCL Award, International Research Society for Children's Literature Runner-Up, John Hope Franklin Publication Prize, American Studies Association Honorable Mention, Book Award, Society for the Study of American Women Writers Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series In Racial Innocence, Robin Bernstein argues that the concept of "childhood innocence" has been central to U.S. racial formation since the mid-nineteenth century. Children--white ones imbued with innocence, black ones excluded from it, and others of color erased by it--figured pivotally in sharply divergent racial agendas from slavery and abolition to antiblack violence and the early civil rights movement. Bernstein takes up a rich archive including books, toys, theatrical props, and domestic knickknacks which she analyzes as "scriptive things" that invite or prompt historically-located practices while allowing for resistance and social improvisation. Integrating performance studies with literary and visual analysis, Bernstein offers singular readings of theatrical productions from blackface minstrelsy to Uncle Tom's Cabin to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz literary works by Joel Chandler Harris, Harriet Wilson, and Frances Hodgson Burnett; material culture including Topsy pincushions, Uncle Tom and Little Eva handkerchiefs, and Raggedy Ann dolls; and visual texts ranging from fine portraiture to advertisements for lard substitute. Throughout, Bernstein shows how "innocence" gradually became the exclusive province of white children--until the Civil Rights Movement succeeded not only in legally desegregating public spaces, but in culturally desegregating the concept of childhood itself. Check out the author's blog for the book here.

Child of the Civil Rights Movement

Author : Paula Young Shelton
Publisher : Dragonfly Books
ISBN 13 : 0385376065
Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Child of the Civil Rights Movement written by Paula Young Shelton and published by Dragonfly Books. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Book of the Year, Paula Young Shelton, daughter of Civil Rights activist Andrew Young, brings a child’s unique perspective to an important chapter in America’s history. Paula grew up in the deep south, in a world where whites had and blacks did not. With an activist father and a community of leaders surrounding her, including Uncle Martin (Martin Luther King), Paula watched and listened to the struggles, eventually joining with her family—and thousands of others—in the historic march from Selma to Montgomery. Poignant, moving, and hopeful, this is an intimate look at the birth of the Civil Rights Movement.

Coretta Scott King

Author : George E. Stanley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439153450
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Coretta Scott King written by George E. Stanley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-12-03 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coretta Scott King is well known for being the wifeÊof Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and for her own civil rights and world peace activism. She also received many awards and honorary degrees. But before she did all of those impressive things, Coretta was a strong little girl who could outclimb anyone in her neighborhood, was very close to her dad, and had a beautiful singing voice! Read all about how Coretta Scott King learned that if you work hard enough, your dreams can come true.

White Water

Author : Michael S. Bandy
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 0763636789
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (636 download)

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Download or read book White Water written by Michael S. Bandy and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2011-08-23 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After tasting the warm, rusty water from the fountain designated for African- Americans, a young boy questions why he cannot drink the cool, refreshing water from the "Whites Only" fountain. Based on a true experience co-author Michael S. Bandy had as a boy. 15,000 first printing.

African American Childhoods

Author : W. King
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781403962508
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book African American Childhoods written by W. King and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-10-17 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African American Childhoods seeks to fill a vacuum in the study of African American children. Recovering the voices or experiences of these children, we observe nuances in their lives based on their legal status, class standing, and social development.

Freedom's Children

Author : Ellen S. Levine
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101076178
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Freedom's Children written by Ellen S. Levine and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2000-12-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this inspiring collection of true stories, thirty African-Americans who were children or teenagers in the 1950s and 1960s talk about what it was like for them to fight segregation in the South-to sit in an all-white restaurant and demand to be served, to refuse to give up a seat at the front of the bus, to be among the first to integrate the public schools, and to face violence, arrest, and even death for the cause of freedom. "Thrilling...Nothing short of wonderful."-The New York Times Awards: ( A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year ( A Booklist Editors' Choice

Children of the Civil Rights Era

Author : Catherine A. Welch
Publisher : Lerner Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781575054810
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (548 download)

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Download or read book Children of the Civil Rights Era written by Catherine A. Welch and published by Lerner Publications. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the courageous involvement of many young people who marched, protested, were arrested, and risked their lives to end racial discrimination in the South during the 1950s and 1960s.

Civil Rights Childhood

Author : Jordana Y. Shakoor
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781578061921
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book Civil Rights Childhood written by Jordana Y. Shakoor and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1999 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The daughter of a poor black Mississippi sharecropper shares her remembrances of coming of age at the height of the civil rights struggle, watching her father--a former soldier--become a schoolteacher while Mississippi burned with white rage and the struggle for equal rights all around them.

The Story of Civil Rights Hero John Lewis

Author : Kathleen Benson
Publisher : Story of
ISBN 13 : 9781620148549
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (485 download)

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Download or read book The Story of Civil Rights Hero John Lewis written by Kathleen Benson and published by Story of. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Presents a biography of Congressman John Lewis, whose work for civil rights includes chairing the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and demonstrating on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama." --

The Freedom Schools

Author : Jon N. Hale
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231541821
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book The Freedom Schools written by Jon N. Hale and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Created in 1964 as part of the Mississippi Freedom Summer, the Mississippi Freedom Schools were launched by educators and activists to provide an alternative education for African American students that would facilitate student activism and participatory democracy. The schools, as Jon N. Hale demonstrates, had a crucial role in the civil rights movement and a major impact on the development of progressive education throughout the nation. Designed and run by African American and white educators and activists, the Freedom Schools counteracted segregationist policies that inhibited opportunities for black youth. Providing high-quality, progressive education that addressed issues of social justice, the schools prepared African American students to fight for freedom on all fronts. Forming a political network, the Freedom Schools taught students how, when, and where to engage politically, shaping activists who trained others to challenge inequality. Based on dozens of first-time interviews with former Freedom School students and teachers and on rich archival materials, this remarkable social history of the Mississippi Freedom Schools is told from the perspective of those frequently left out of civil rights narratives that focus on national leadership or college protestors. Hale reveals the role that school-age students played in the civil rights movement and the crucial contribution made by grassroots activists on the local level. He also examines the challenges confronted by Freedom School activists and teachers, such as intimidation by racist Mississippians and race relations between blacks and whites within the schools. In tracing the stories of Freedom School students into adulthood, this book reveals the ways in which these individuals turned training into decades of activism. Former students and teachers speak eloquently about the principles that informed their practice and the influence that the Freedom School curriculum has had on education. They also offer key strategies for further integrating the American school system and politically engaging today's youth.

C is for Civil Rights : The African-American Civil Rights Movement | Children's History Books

Author : Baby Professor
Publisher : Speedy Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 1541939832
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book C is for Civil Rights : The African-American Civil Rights Movement | Children's History Books written by Baby Professor and published by Speedy Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did the African-Americans fight so hard for their civil rights? There are many reasons why but they all point to injustice. Open your eyes to how unfair the world was before the Civil Rights Movement. Learn from the historical truths to avoid the same issues from happening again today. Grab a copy of this book now!

Children of the Movement

Author : John Blake
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1569765944
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (697 download)

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Download or read book Children of the Movement written by John Blake and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2007-06-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiling 24 of the adult children of the most recognizable figures in the civil rights movement, this book collects the intimate, moving stories of families who were pulled apart by the horrors of the struggle or brought together by their efforts to change America. The whole range of players is covered, from the children of leading figures like Martin Luther King Jr. and martyrs like James Earl Chaney to segregationists like George Wallace and Black Panther leaders like Elaine Brown. The essays reveal that some children are more pessimistic than their parents, whose idealism they saw destroyed by the struggle, while others are still trying to change the world. Included are such inspiring stories as the daughter of a notoriously racist Southern governor who finds her calling as a teacher in an all-black inner-city school and the daughter of a famous martyr who unexpectedly meets her mother's killer. From the first activists killed by racist Southerners to the current global justice protestors carrying on the work of their parents, these profiles offer a look behind the public face of the triumphant civil rights movement and show the individual lives it changed in surprising ways.

Civil Rights Childhood

Author : Jordana Y. Shakoor
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1617030929
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Civil Rights Childhood written by Jordana Y. Shakoor and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two voices blend in this poignant memoir from the Civil Rights era in Mississippi--a father's and a daughter's. He was Andrew L. Jordan, a son in a dirt-poor family of sharecroppers near Greenwood. Jordana Shakoor is his little girl who grew up to write this book. In her southern childhood she is just becoming aware of her people's dreadful predicament of loving their homeland but of hating its mistreatment of blacks. Like virtually all other southern black families, the Jordans endured humiliation and fear of white reprisals. The child states that her father rejected the ugly Jim Crow tradition and aimed at achieving an improbable dream in black Mississippi--to become a schoolteacher. First, he served as a "colored soldier" in the armed forces. Then he returned home to marry in 1955, an especially ominous year in the calendar of black southerners (the heinous murder of the black northern teenager Emmitt Till occurred then). Jordan got his education with aid from the GI Bill and realized his dream of teaching. But it wasn't enough. Beginning to live according to his conscience, he joined his life to the Civil Rights Movement. At first he moved behind the scenes and then worked openly in mass meetings and voter registrations. For his activism he lost his job and, unemployable at home, he was driven from Mississippi. In Ohio his family merged into the American middle class. When the daughter was twelve, Jordan let her read his fascinating memoir. It made her proud. When she was thirty-five, her father died. By the time she was forty she had begun to intertwine their two stories and their two voices. In a loving reminiscence of her childhood and family influences in Mississippi during a time of danger and strife Civil Rights Childhood unites their two lives and their histories. The voices in this book tell a story whose theme is familiar to legions of African Americans. Yet its particular voices, until now, have gone unheard. Though this is told by a child born in the segregated South, it also is the story of her family's triumph over a dark heritage, a story of a Civil Rights childhood that casts away a centuries-old tradition of insult and denial to embrace instead a Civil Rights heritage of freedom and love.

Children in the Civil Rights Era

Author : Sheila Llanas
Publisher : North Star Editions, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1641851775
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (418 download)

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Download or read book Children in the Civil Rights Era written by Sheila Llanas and published by North Star Editions, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-08-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents true accounts of children who lived during the Civil Rights Era. Personal narratives, informative infographics, and historical photos make this title a compelling and thought-provoking read for young history lovers.

Raising Freedom's Child

Author : Mary Niall Mitchell
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814796338
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Raising Freedom's Child written by Mary Niall Mitchell and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2010-04-09 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work examines slave emancipation and opposition to it as a far-reaching, national event with profound social, political, and cultural consequences. The author analyzes multiple views of the African American child to demonstrate how Americans contested and defended slavery and its abolition.

Child of the Dream (A Memoir of 1963)

Author : Sharon Robinson
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1338282824
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book Child of the Dream (A Memoir of 1963) written by Sharon Robinson and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An incredible memoir from Sharon Robinson about one of the most important years of the civil rights movement. In January 1963, Sharon Robinson turns thirteen the night before George Wallace declares on national television "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever" in his inauguration speech as governor of Alabama. It is the beginning of a year that will change the course of American history. As the daughter of baseball legend Jackie Robinson, Sharon has opportunities that most people would never dream of experiencing. Her family hosts multiple fund-raisers at their home in Connecticut for the work that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is doing. Sharon sees her first concert after going backstage at the Apollo Theater. And her whole family attends the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. But things don't always feel easy for Sharon. She is one of the only Black children in her wealthy Connecticut neighborhood. Her older brother, Jackie Robinson Jr., is having a hard time trying to live up to his father's famous name, causing some rifts in the family. And Sharon feels isolated-struggling to find her role in the civil rights movement that is taking place across the country. This is the story of how one girl finds her voice in the fight for justice and equality.