Outline 7

Civil Rights: Struggle and Triumph, 1960-1965

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    From the Sit-Ins to Freedom Rides
    Birmingham--"Why We Can't Wait"
    The March on Washington--King's Dream
    Mississippi Burning: Freedom Summer and the MFDP
    Selma--"Bloody Sunday"
    Dismantling the Apartheid System: Civil and Voting Rights Acts



Terms:

SNCC
Stokeley Carmichael
John Lewis
James Meredith
Medgar Evers
"Bull" Connor
Goodman, Schwerner, and Chaney
Fannie Lou Hamer
Edmund Pettus Bridge



Recordings:

SNCC Singers,  We Shall Not Be Moved
SNCC Singers,  Which Side Are You On?
Julius Lester,  Ain't Gonna Let Nobody  Turn Us 'Round
Julius Lester,  Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Fannie Lou Hamer,  Go Tell It On the Mountain
Bob Dylan,  The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
Phil Ochs,  Here's to the State of Mississippi
Phil Ochs,  Going Down to Mississippi
Phil Ochs,  Too Many Martyrs   [Originally "The Ballad of Medgar Evers]
Bob Dylan,   Oxford Town
Bob Dylan,  Only a Pawn In Their Game
Tom Paxton,  Goodman, Schwerner, and Chaney
Sweet Honey in the Rock,  Fannie Lou Hamer
Phil Ochs,  Birmingham  Jam
Joan Baez,  Birmingham Sunday
Richard Farina,  Birmingham Sunday
Len Chandler,  We Will Not Bow Down to Genocide
Billy Bragg,  I Dreamed I Saw Phil Ochs Last Night
Tom Lehrer,  National Brotherhood Week
LBJ, Statement Upon Signing Civil Rights Bill


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