Unhappy is the land that needs heroes.
—Bertolt Brecht
—Bertolt Brecht
Allrighty, the final set of online readings:
Recommended
The first piece looks at party support for civil rights in the 1960s, while the rest of the short pieces are focused on SNCC as an organization:
A few readings, and couple of short video clips:
There are other clips from Freedom Riders worth checking out, too.
Here are the next set of readings, a mixed bunch of articles, photos, and cartoons; most are fairly short (1-2 pages), although some are a bit longer.
And while I’m only pulling two editorials about the sit-ins from the Greensboro Public Library archive local newspapers, I strongly recommend perusal of the various articles, editorials, and letters contained therein.
Here are the first set of SNCC readings; I’ll post the reading for the following weeks. . . in the following weeks:
Julian Bond, SNCC: What We Did
Greensboro sit-ins, others: Read ‘Greensboro sit-ins (Feb)’ and ‘Sit-ins Sweep Across the South (1960-64)’
SNCC Founding Statement
SNCC Founded (April)
Gallup poll on Freedom Riders, pp. 1-2
Hello, all.
Here are a couple of videos in lieu of Monday’s class; we’ll (try to) incorporate the issues raised in these vids into class discussions.
The Battle Over Abortion in Northern Ireland (12:56):
Inside Mississippi’s Lone Abortion Clinic (15:40):
Sosan’s story: Domestic violence in Afghanistan (12:32):
How India’s female untouchables are fighting back (16:56)
Laura Carlsen on the progress and peril of women in Latin America (9:24):
The African Woman and Politics, part 4, Naja’atu Mohamed (9:28):
LSE Middle East Centre, Elif Shafak (5:34):
And while these are NOT required, they’re both worth a look.
The first is a short documentary on Latinas in the US, and gets at, in an everyday way, some of the issues of intersectionality:
Latina Confessions: Documentary Trailer (15:58)
PBS Makers V2: Women in Politics (52:41) covers some of the same ground as Collins’s book, and offers a nice, if somewhat bland, overview of women in American politics: