Two Replies to the Civil Rights Movement Discussion

WEEK 14: Women, Gender, Rights, in the 1950s: Domesticity Revisited?

Title Citation

Ruby Bridges Interview (8 mins) “They Were There…” Newshour Productions, 2010.

Dorothy Height Interview (10 mins) “They Were There…” Newshour Productions, 2010.

How did African American Women Shape the Civil Rights Movement and What Challenges did They Face? (Please read at least six primary sources from this important collection. If you read the discussion prompts first you may have an easier time identifying quotations to include in your posts.)

Gail S. Murray, How Did African American Women Shape the Civil Rights Movement and What Challenges Did They Face? (Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street, 2010).

“I Wanted the Whole World

To See”: Constructions of

Motherhood in the Death of

Emmett Till by Ruth

Feldman (Be advised: article includes discussion of difficult- to-read-about-racial violence and its consequences, perpetrated on a child.)

RUTH Feldstein,. “‘I Wanted the Whole World To See’: Constructions of Motherhood in the Death of Emmett Till.” In Motherhood in Black and White: Race and Sex in American Liberalism, 1930–1965, 86–110. Cornell University Press, 2000. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctv5rdvsk .8.

American Women’s History: A Very Short Introduction Ch. 4, pp 100-103

Susan Ware: American Women’s History: A Very Short Introduction

Week 14 Hive mind doc

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