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Author |
: Laura Visser-Maessen |
Publisher |
: UNC Press Books |
Total Pages |
: 457 |
Release |
: 2016-02-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781469627991 |
ISBN-13 |
: 146962799X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis Robert Parris Moses by : Laura Visser-Maessen
One of the most influential leaders in the civil rights movement, Robert Parris Moses was essential in making Mississippi a central battleground state in the fight for voting rights. As a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Moses presented himself as a mere facilitator of grassroots activism rather than a charismatic figure like Martin Luther King Jr. His self-effacing demeanor and his success, especially in steering the events that led to the volatile 1964 Freedom Summer and the formation of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, paradoxically gave him a reputation of nearly heroic proportions. Examining the dilemmas of a leader who worked to cultivate local leadership, historian Laura Visser-Maessen explores the intellectual underpinnings of Moses's strategy, its achievements, and its struggles. This new biography recasts Moses as an effective, hands-on organizer, safeguarding his ideals while leading from behind the scenes. By returning Moses to his rightful place among the foremost leaders of the movement, Visser-Maessen testifies to Moses's revolutionary approach to grassroots leadership and the power of the individual in generating social change.
Author |
: Robert Moses |
Publisher |
: Beacon Press |
Total Pages |
: 260 |
Release |
: 2002-06-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780807031698 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0807031690 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis Radical Equations by : Robert Moses
The remarkable story of the Algebra Project, a community-based effort to develop math-science literacy in disadvantaged schools—as told by the program’s founder “Bob Moses was a hero of mine. His quiet confidence helped shape the civil rights movement, and he inspired generations of young people looking to make a difference”—Barack Obama At a time when popular solutions to the educational plight of poor children of color are imposed from the outside—national standards, high-stakes tests, charismatic individual saviors—the acclaimed Algebra Project and its founder, Robert Moses, offer a vision of school reform based in the power of communities. Begun in 1982, the Algebra Project is transforming math education in twenty-five cities. Founded on the belief that math-science literacy is a prerequisite for full citizenship in society, the Project works with entire communities—parents, teachers, and especially students—to create a culture of literacy around algebra, a crucial stepping-stone to college math and opportunity. Telling the story of this remarkable program, Robert Moses draws on lessons from the 1960s Southern voter registration he famously helped organize: “Everyone said sharecroppers didn't want to vote. It wasn't until we got them demanding to vote that we got attention. Today, when kids are falling wholesale through the cracks, people say they don't want to learn. We have to get the kids themselves to demand what everyone says they don't want.” We see the Algebra Project organizing community by community. Older kids serve as coaches for younger students and build a self-sustained tradition of leadership. Teachers use innovative techniques. And we see the remarkable success stories of schools like the predominately poor Hart School in Bessemer, Alabama, which outscored the city's middle-class flagship school in just three years. Radical Equations provides a model for anyone looking for a community-based solution to the problems of our disadvantaged schools.
Author |
: Bianca Dumas |
Publisher |
: Heinemann-Raintree Library |
Total Pages |
: 68 |
Release |
: 2004 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0739870319 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780739870310 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis Robert Parris Moses by : Bianca Dumas
Chronicles the life of civil rights leader Robert Parris Moses, from his childhood in Depression-era Harlem to his work on the Algebra Project, a math tutoring program for poor and minority students, in the early twenty-first century.
Author |
: Calvin Trillin |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 305 |
Release |
: 2016 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780399588242 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0399588248 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis Jackson, 1964 by : Calvin Trillin
An anthology of previously uncollected essays, originally published in "The New Yorker," reflects the work of the eminent journalist's early career and traces his witness to the fledgling years of desegregation in Georgia.
Author |
: Claire Whitlinger |
Publisher |
: UNC Press Books |
Total Pages |
: 305 |
Release |
: 2020-04-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781469656342 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1469656345 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis Between Remembrance and Repair by : Claire Whitlinger
Few places are more notorious for civil rights–era violence than Philadelphia, Mississippi, the site of the 1964 "Mississippi Burning" murders. Yet in a striking turn of events, Philadelphia has become a beacon in Mississippi's racial reckoning in the decades since. Claire Whitlinger investigates how this community came to acknowledge its past, offering significant insight into the social impacts of commemoration. Examining two commemorations around key anniversaries of the murders held in 1989 and 2004, Whitlinger shows the differences in how those events unfolded. She also charts how the 2004 commemoration offered a springboard for the trial of former Klan leader Edgar Ray Killen for his role in the 1964 murders, the 2006 passage of Mississippi's Civil Rights/Human Rights education bill, and the initiation of the Mississippi Truth Project. In doing so, Whitlinger provides the first comprehensive account of these high profile events and expands our understanding of how commemorations both emerge out of and catalyze associated memory movements. Threading a compelling story with theoretical insights, Whitlinger delivers a study that will help scholars, students, and activists alike better understand the dynamics of commemorating difficult pasts, commemorative practices in general, and the links between memory, race, and social change.
Author |
: Eric Burner |
Publisher |
: NYU Press |
Total Pages |
: 319 |
Release |
: 1994 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780814712504 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0814712509 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis And Gently He Shall Lead Them by : Eric Burner
Burner (law, Cadwalader, Wickersham, and Taft) tells the story of an elusive hero of the civil rights movement examining Moses' moral philosophy and his political and ideological evolution. Burner follows Moses through his community organizing in the 1960s, his involvements with the SNCC and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, and his negotiations with the Department of Justice, and reveals the influence French philosopher Albert Camus had on Moses' life and work. Includes bandw photos. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author |
: Katherine Mellen Charron |
Publisher |
: Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages |
: 482 |
Release |
: 2009 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780807833322 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0807833320 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis Freedom's Teacher by : Katherine Mellen Charron
Septima Poinsette Clark's gift to the civil rights movement was education. In the mid-1950s, this former public school teacher developed a citizenship training program that enabled thousands of African Americans to register to vote and then to link the po
Author |
: Robert Shetterly |
Publisher |
: Paw Prints |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2009-07-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 144202870X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781442028708 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (0X Downloads) |
Synopsis Americans Who Tell the Truth by : Robert Shetterly
Features quotes, biographies, and portraits of powerful and influential Americans, including Rachel Carson, Rosa Parks, and Mark Twain, who used the power of truth combined with freedom of speech to challenge the system and inspire change. Reprint.
Author |
: John Dittmer |
Publisher |
: Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages |
: 342 |
Release |
: 2017-01-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781496810366 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1496810368 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Good Doctors by : John Dittmer
In the summer of 1964 medical professionals, mostly white and northern, organized the Medical Committee for Human Rights (MCHR) to provide care and support for civil rights activists organizing black voters in Mississippi. They left their lives and lucrative private practices to march beside and tend the wounds of demonstrators from Freedom Summer, the March on Selma, and the Chicago Democratic Convention of 1968. Galvanized and sometimes radicalized by their firsthand view of disenfranchised communities, the MCHR soon expanded its mission to encompass a range of causes from poverty to the war in Vietnam. They later took on the whole of the United States healthcare system. MCHR doctors soon realized fighting segregation would mean not just caring for white volunteers, but also exposing and correcting shocking inequalities in segregated health care. They pioneered community health plans and brought medical care to underserved or unserved areas. Though education was the most famous battleground for integration, the appalling injustice of segregated health care levelled equally devastating consequences. Award-winning historian John Dittmer, author of the classic civil rights history Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi, has written an insightful and moving account of a group of idealists who put their careers in the service of the motto “Health Care Is a Human Right.”
Author |
: Daniel S. Lucks |
Publisher |
: University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages |
: 395 |
Release |
: 2014-03-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780813145099 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0813145090 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis Selma to Saigon by : Daniel S. Lucks
In Selma to Saigon Daniel S. Lucks explores the impact of the Vietnam War on the national civil rights movement. Through detailed research and a powerful narrative, Lucks illuminates the effects of the Vietnam War on leaders such as Whitney Young Jr., Stokely Carmichael, Roy Wilkins, Bayard Rustin, and Martin Luther King Jr., as well as lesser-known Americans in the movement who faced the threat of the military draft as well as racial discrimination and violence.