Text

1. Rev. Martin Luther

King Jr. (August,1963)
I Have a Dream

2. Levine, Ellen. (1993).

Freedoms Children.
Young Civil Rights
Activists tell their own
Stories.

Genre

Summary

Rationale for Selection

Recording- Audio.

This is the actual recording

of Reverend Martin Luther
King Jr.s speech given on
August 28, 1967 at the
Lincoln Memorial. The
recording is part of a
collection of The Greatest
Speeches in the World
compiled on a CD. The
speech is prefaced by a
short introduction
explaining the context and
setting of the speech.

This audio recording

provides a point of view of
the famous Dr. Marin
Luther King Jr., and his
goals and ideas for the
Civil Rights Movement.
As this is the actual
recording, and not one
reread by a narrator, the
students will be able to
feel the power and
emotion coming from the
mouth of the man who
wrote the speech. This is a
short recording, 6:10, and
can be listened to
individually or as a class.
The written form of the
speech is included in one
of the other texts and can
be read alongside the
recording. This speech is
almost essential to include
in a discussion of Civil
Rights, Martin Luther
King explains the very
foundational goals of the
Movement.

Non-Fiction,
Autobiographical
Sketches, Vignettes.

This is a collection of
Historical recounts of
students that lived in the
South during the Civil
Rights Movement. The
children were roughly 1018 years old, some of them
were involved in
Organizations advocating
for civil rights and some

This collection of
historical recounts
provides an adolescents
point of view of the events
in the South during the
1960s. Most of these
children were passionate
and ready to undertake any
challenge to fight for their
rights, their stories are

3. Good, Diane L. (2004).

Cornerstones of
Freedom: Brown v.
Board of Education.

Informational Picture
Book.

were simply observers of

the activity around them.
The children give their
memories of Sit-Ins,
School Integration,
Boycotts, etc. of the South,
often in South Carolina
towns. A few of these
stories describe the nonviolent as well as the
violent protests in the
south and the reactions to
them, but they also
provide a glimpse of what
daily life would have been
like for children during the
1960s.

courageous. The
collection of stories serves
to give several points of
view of the civil rights
movement that middle
school students could
potentially relate to.

This short informational

text follows a narrative of
a young woman named
Barbara Johns, an African
American girl living in
Virginia in the 1950s. She
and her friends decide to
come up with a plan of
action because they were
tired of getting subpar
education compared to the
while students in their
town. The book walks
through Barbaras journey
and gives the history,
legal, and social effects
and events surrounding the
court case of Brown. Vs.
Board of Education. This
text condenses a
particularly
complex topic into a book
that successfully informs

Not only does this text

provide information on
landmark court cases on
educational equality in a
way that is easy to
understand with the
accompaniment of
photographs, it follows a
narrative of a student. The
book starts with the
introduction of Barbara
Johns and then branches
into descriptive passages
filled with bold print new
vocabulary, explanatory
sections that develop
particularly confusing
concepts in detail. This
text provides a historical
time line of the Court Case
in the back of the book as
well. Students can refer to
this book with question s

4. McKissack, Patricia
and Fredrick. (1987).
The Civil Rights in
Americas from 1865 to
the Present.

Informational Text

students of the history,

complications, and the
people involved.

on specific time periods,

or specific people. All the
informational texts of the
text set provide accessible
facts on the Civil Rights
Movement.

This text provides an

extremely extensive
overview of civil rights
movements in America
from the years 1865 to
present (1987). This
includes the fight for
Womens Rights, the
struggle for Native
Americans in America,
The Civil Rights
Movement of the 1960s,
etc. The majority of the
text discusses the 1960s
and the push for racial
equality in America. The
text provides information
on several specific
boycotts, marches, and sitins. It also gives small
biographical sketches of
prominent figures of the
movement, including Dr.
Martin Luther King,
Malcolm X, Rosa Parks, as
well as the Kennedys and
their push for equality.

This text will be provided

for the advanced readers in
the class. Almost
appearing as a text book,
this historical reference
would be useful for
students who may be
conducting research on a
particular concept; they
can easily search the index
and will most likely be
able to find early
information on civil rights
as well as information on
more popular events. As
this book was published in
1987, the information
deemed to be on the
present is actually
historical for students
today. This provides an
interesting point of view
for students and is an
excellent resource for
getting a quick overview
of hundreds of topics and
events of the Civil Rights
Movement including
Malcolm X, Martin Luther
King, Rosa Parks,
Boycotting the bus system,
Greensboro Sit-ins, the
lynchings of blacks, etc.

5. Giovanni, Nikki.
(2005). Rosa.

Picture Book, Biography.

This picture book tells the

story of the day Rosa
Parks refused to move out
of her seat on the city bus.
It gives a brief
introduction of her life and
reputation in her
hometown. It also includes
a few pages that touch on
other organizations and
events of the Civil Rights
Movement ad how the
courageous acts of Rosa
Parks connect with those
events.

This picture book has

beautiful illustrations done
by Bryan Collier. The
story is written with an
appropriate use of
vocabulary for Middle
School. It is most likely on
a 3rd-5th grade reading
level; I predict that every
student will be able to read
this text with very little
difficulty. It gives a basic
overview of the actions of
Rosa Parks and her
contribution to the Civil
Rights Movement.
Students will be able to
summarize this event and
why it is important after
reading this text.

6. Haskins, Jim. (1992). I

Have a Dream: The Life
and Words of Martin
Luther King Jr.

Biography Text, Historical

Recounts.

This is a biographical text

about Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr. It follows his life
in chronological order,
explaining his involvement
and goals as they changed
and intensified over the
years. It begins with his
early childhood and family
life and ends with his
assassination in 1968. This
text includes pictures and
personal accounts of his
close friends and family,
as well as excerpts from
Martin Luther Kings
speeches and other
personal interviews and
journals.

This text has an excellent

description of Dr. Martin
Luther Kings life as well
as a timeline of the
progress and set backs of
the Civil Rights
Movement. This allows
students to see just how
heavily Dr. Kings vision
and planning was relied on
by the masses of people
who were striving for
racial equality. This book
has two additional parts
that are interesting: the
introduction and personal
account of Martin Luther
King is written by Rosa
Parks. The I Have a

Dream Speech is also

included, and can be used
by students listening to the
audio recording.

7. Tuck, Pamela M.
(2013). As Fast As Words
Could Fly.

Picture Book.

Mason Steele is a young

boy who is growing up in
Greenville, North Carolina
I the 1960s. His father
requires him to type up
important documents for
the Civil Rights
Movement Organizations
his father is involved in.
As Mason types for his
father, he becomes
especially gifted and his
skills improve. One day,
his father announces that
Mason and his brothers
will attend a better high
school after winning a
particularly controversial
Court Case (Brown v.
Board of Education) He
begins to attend school and
competes in a typing
contest, he wins by a
landslide yet no one in the
audience applauses him.
This fictional story is
based on the true
experiences of a man
named Moses Teel Jr. and
his story is shared in the
back of the book.

This story is one that

provides a fictional
narrative for students to
follow along that the
reader can relate to quite
closely. The adolescent
point of view of Mason is
present in hope of creating
stronger connections for
students so they can better
understand how life might
have been growing up
during 1960s as an
African American in the
southern states.

8. Pbs.org. (2006). NonViolent Protest: Eyes on

the Prize.

Video

The non-violent marches,

sit-ins, and boycotts
occurring in the state of
Tennessee were recorded

This two part video set

from a PBS video
collections called The
American Experience is

9. Columbiasc63.com

Internet: Research

and photographed and

seen as front page news.
These movements were
radical is everyone had
their own reactions, White
and Black men and
women. Some were
offended, and some were
in concurrence. The brief
interviews, and short news
reel clips display the
opinions, actions, and
behavior of the people of
the South; how the
population was feeling at
the very heat of the
moment. The footage is
somewhat strong, but the
movement was a hard time
full of beatings, ridicule,
and constant
discrimination from what
seemed like all sides. This
video shows an amazingly
accurate portrayal of life
during that time.

extremely interesting and

establishes a crystal clear
presentation of just how
Sit-ins where enacted and
received. This is an
excellent resource for
students to gain a full
comprehension of the fact
that there were indeed two
sides of the Civil Rights
Movement and to hear
both of their arguments.

This website is home to a

collection of personal
stories and News articles
submitted by residents of
South Carolina who lived
during the Civil Rights
Movement. Each
submission is from an
African America who
provide were more that
eager to share their stories
that seem to be forgotten,
under the fame of all the
fame and recognition of
things happening

This is a resource for

connecting the Civil
Rights Movement with the
city in which most of these
students in my class will
be familiar with. When thy
see photographs of places
they have seen or been to
before, it makes history
much more real to a
student. Using this website
along with the PBS videos
provided- these students
will be well educated on
the events and their

10. Whites Rally on the

State House ground in
1963 to Protest
Integration + March on
the State House.

Photography

elsewhere.

consequences, and what

those consequences often
meant for South Carolina.

Both of these photographs

were taken by The State
News in the 1960s. The
first is a night where
roughly 100-200 White
men gathered at the
bottom of the State House
steps in protest to
integration. The second
photograph is of a peaceful
march along the State
House Grounds, done by
young adult African
Americans of Columbia
South Carolina. They are
marching parallel to
Gervais St.

These two photographs

show the two radically
different ideals clashing
together in one region.
One night a group of men
may gather to protest of
racial equality and the next
morning there would be a
group of African
Americans walking
silently with their posters,
occasionally singing a
song or two. This
juxtaposition is vital in
order to understand the
atmosphere of South
Carolina in the 1960s.

The Civil Rights Movement

Text Set Database

EDML 470: Goodman
Hayley Crouch
31 October 2013

Standard 8-7: The student will demonstrate an understanding of the impact on South Carolina of
significant events of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
Enduring Understanding:
Changes that took place in the United States during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries
revitalized the economy and challenged traditional society and politics in South Carolina.
8-7.2 : Analyze the movement for civil rights in South Carolina, including the impact of the landmark court
cases Elmore v. Rice and Briggs v. Elliot; civil rights leaders Septima Poinsette Clark, Modjeska Monteith
Simkins, and Matthew J. Perry; the South Carolina
School equalization effort and other resistance to school integration; peaceful efforts to integrate beginning
with colleges and demonstrations in S Carolina such as the Friendship Nine and the Orangeburg Massacre