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Book Backdrops: John Lewis and the Freedom Fighters

Album Description

Teaching this era across age groups and the significance of those who were a major part of the way democracy looks today. The life of John Lewis then and now is incredible. Starting with the story "Preaching to the Chickens" that captures his youth and to higher reading level such as "Across that Bridge", "March" and "His Truth Is Marching On". This book back drop takes you during the times of young John Lewis. His hopes and dreams in the book Preaching to the Chickens becomes reality as he was the youngest leader and speaker at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom .   Pre K - 2   3 - 5   6 - 8   9 - 12   13+   English/Language Arts   Library   Social Studies/History 

Edmund Pettus Bridge, Selma, Alabama

Teaching Notes

The book titled "Across That Bridge " This is the bridge. If you would like to also do a study of bridges, marches, foundations of bridges, the civil  rights era. The sky is the limit.  6 - 8    English/Language Arts    Library    Social Studies/History  

Reference note

Contributor Names: Highsmith, Carol M., 1946-, photographer
Created / Published: 2010 April 7.
Subject Headings: -  United States--Alabama--Selma
-  Edmund Pettus Bridge
-  Bridges
-  America
Genre: Digital photographs--Color--2000-2010
Notes: -  The Edmund Pettus Bridge, named for Edmund Winston Pettus, a Confederate brigadier general, and eventual U.S. Senator. It is famous as the site of the conflict of Bloody Sunday (March 7, 1965), where armed officers attacked peaceful civil rights demonstrators who were attempting to march to the state capital of Montgomery.
-  Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer.
-  Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
-  Gift; George F. Landegger; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:090).
-  Forms part of the George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id: highsm 07326 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/highsm.07326

Edmund Pettus Bridge, Selma, Alabama

Teaching Notes

Another view of the Pettus bridge.  6 - 8    9 - 12    Library    English/Language Arts    Social Studies/History  

Reference note

Contributor Names: Highsmith, Carol M., 1946-, photographer
Created / Published: 2010 April 7.
Subject Headings: -  United States--Alabama--Selma
-  Edmund Pettus Bridge
-  Bridges
-  America
Genre: Digital photographs--Color--2000-2010
Notes: -  The Pettus Bridge was the site of Bloody Sunday (March 7, 1965), where state and local lawmen attacked civil rights demonstrators who were attempting to march from Selma to the state capital Montgomery. Named for Edmund Winston Pettus, a Confederate brigadier general and U.S. Senator, the bridge carries U.S. Route 80 over the Alabama River and is part of the Selma-to-Montgomery National Historic Trail.
-  Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer.
-  Photographer's choice (Alabama project).
-  Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
-  Gift; George F. Landegger; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:090).
-  Forms part of: George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id: highsm 07312 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/highsm.07312

Young John Lewis

Teaching Notes

Story about the young John Lewis and wanted to be a preacher. His words stirred hearts to change, minds to think, and bodies to take action. Just  a snapshot of the childhood of civil rights leader John Lewis. Freedom Riders, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and demonstrator on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama.  Pre K - 2    3 - 5    6 - 8    9 - 12    13+    English/Language Arts    Social Studies/History  

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Teaching Notes

Young John Lewis speaking at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom held on August 28, 1963.

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Teaching Notes

One of the Freedom Rider's buses.

Image 1 of digital files from original items

Reference note

Contributor Names: March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.)
Created / Published: New York : March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, [1963]
Subject Headings: -  March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom--(1963 :--Washington, D.C.)
-  Civil rights--United States
Genre: Leaflets--1960-1970
Notes: -  Cover title.
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id: ppmsca 37470 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.37470

Image 2 of Rosa Parks Papers: Subject File, 1937-2005; Mississippi Freedom Summer Project, name badge and event invitation, 1964

Reference note

Contributor Names: Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005.
Subject Headings: -  Civil rights--United States
-  African Americans--Civil rights
-  African Americans--Religion
-  African Americans--Segregation
-  African Americans--Social conditions
-  Civil rights demonstrations--United States
-  Civil rights movements--United States
-  Montgomery Bus Boycott, Montgomery, Ala., 1955-1956
-  Race discrimination--Southern States
-  Race discrimination--United States
-  Segregation--Southern States
-  Segregation--United States
-  Southern States--Race relations
-  Southern States--Social conditions
-  United States--Race relations
-  United States--Social conditions
-  Civil rights activists
-  Manuscripts
-  United States
Genre: Manuscripts
Repository: Manuscript Division
Digital Id: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/ms014094.mss85943.0176

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John Lewis nearly died this day demonstrating.