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How and why did you first become involved in the civil rights movement?

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Charles E. Cobb

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March 14, 2012

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Civics Lessons for Student Engagement

Freedom Now: The Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi

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Why is it important for high school students to learn about the civil rights movement?
Who are you and what do you do?
How did SNCC differ from older Black political organizations?
How did SNCC workers go about organizing small communities in Mississippi?
Why did SNCC decide to focus on voter registration in Mississippi?
Why did SNCC decide to focus on voter registration in Mississippi? (Lesson version)
What role did nonviolence play in the movement?
What were the freedom schools?
Why did SNCC debate whether to bring white college students down for Freedom Summer?
How did the use of violence by Southern whites change in the 1960s?
How did Black people in Mississippi live with the threat of violence?
What kind of hostility did you encounter in Mississippi?
How and why was the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party formed?
What was the MFDP challenge at the 1964 Democratic National Convention?
Why didn’t the MFDP accept the Democratic Party’s compromise?
How did the MFDP challenge change American politics?
What was the civil rights movement?
Freedom Now: The Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi
How and why did you first become involved in the civil rights movement?
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