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THE CHOICES PROGRAM BROWN UNIVERSITY

Freedom Now: The Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi

Scholars

John Lewis Judy Richardson  Charles E. Cobb Ekwueme Michael Thelwell Françoise N. Hamlin Michael Vorenberg

Date Filmed

March 7, 2012

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Freedom Now: The Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi

Videos from John Lewis

What was it like to participate in the Freedom Rides?
How and why did you first get involved in the civil rights movement?
What was your life like as a young child?
Why is it important for high school students to learn about the civil rights movement?
What did the civil rights movement accomplish?
How did you decide to go into politics?
What was the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project?
Why did you criticize the proposed civil rights legislation at the March on Washington?
What role did nonviolence play in the movement?
Freedom Now: The Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi
What was it like growing up in Alabama under Jim Crow?

Videos from Judy Richardson 

What was your daily work like in small communities in the South?
Who are you and what do you do?
Why is it important for high school students to learn about the civil rights movement?
How and why did you first become involved in the civil rights movement?
What advice do you have for young documentary filmmakers?
What was one of your goals in making Eyes on the Prize?
Why did you decide to help put together the book Hands on the Freedom Plow?
What caused SNCC to fall apart in your opinion?
Who was Ella Baker?
Did you ever experience violence in Mississippi?
Were you ever afraid for your safety?
Freedom Now: The Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi
What role did women play in SNCC?

Videos from Charles E. Cobb

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?

Videos from Ekwueme Michael Thelwell

Who are you and what do you do?
How successful was the civil rights movement?
How integrated is American society today?
Who was Stokely Carmichael?
Why was SNCC an effective organization?
What was the Mississippi Summer Project of 1964?
What did you discover about local communities in the Mississippi Delta?
How and why did you first get involved in the civil rights movement?
Why is it important for high school students to learn about the civil rights movement?
Freedom Now: The Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi

Videos from Françoise N. Hamlin

How is racial inequality rooted in the founding of the United States?
Who were the enslaved people in the British North American colonies?
What was life like for free Black people in the British North American colonies?
Why did colonists in the British North American colonies support the institution of slavery?
Why didn’t the Declaration of Independence extend rights to enslaved people?
How did slavery change after U.S. independence from Britain?
How has racism impacted how Americans think about identity?
Who are you and what do you do?
Why is it important for high school students to learn about the civil rights movement?
Why is it difficult to say when the civil rights movement began and ended?
What was life like for Black people in the South under Jim Crow?
How did Black Southerners resist Jim Crow?
Why did Black activism begin to be more successful in the 1950s?
Why was the murder of Emmett Till important?
What were the Brown vs. the Board of Education cases?
How did the movement that arose in the 1960s differ from earlier Black activism?
How did white Southerners resist Black activism?
Was the federal government supportive of the civil rights movement?
How did the civil rights movement change in the late 1960s?
What was Black Power?
What were the major accomplishments of the civil rights movement and what challenges remain?
Freedom Now: The Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi
Whose interests did the U.S. Constitution reflect?
Who was Emmett Till?
Why did some enslaved people support different sides during the American Revolution?
A New Nation: Introduction

Videos from Michael Vorenberg

Why is it important for high school students to learn about the Articles of Confederation and the U.S. Constitution?
Why were state constitutions inadequate after the American Revolution?
What did James Madison hope would happen at the Constitutional Convention?
What crises led to the Constitutional Convention?
How were issues of representation addressed at the Constitutional Convention?
Who were the Federalists and who were the Anti-Federalists?
What were the Federalist Papers?
Why did the federal government “reconstruct” the South?
What were the limitations of the Thirteenth Amendment?
Who are you and what do you do?
Was the American Civil War a war over slavery?
What role did enslaved Black people play in the American Civil War?
Why did the federal government eventually abandon Reconstruction?
How did Reconstruction transform Black life in the South?
How did white people in the South resist Reconstruction?
In what ways was Black life under Jim Crow similar to life under slavery?
Why is the civil rights movement sometimes called the “second Reconstruction”?
Why is it important for high school students to learn about Reconstruction?
Freedom Now: The Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi
What was the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution?
What is the basic principle of American democracy?
Why did the Constitution have to be amended to abolish slavery?
What is the role of the Constitutional amendment?
Why has the U.S. Constitution endured for more than 200 years?
Why should high school students learn about the Constitution?
How did the U.S. Constitution exclude certain groups?
A New Nation: Introduction
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