American Democracy and the Promise of Justice

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 19.03.01

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale
  3. Content Objectives
  4. Teaching Strategies
  5. Classroom Activities and Timing of the Unit
  6. Appendix:  Implementing Common Core State and College Board Standards
  7. Endnotes
  8. Bibliography

Fight the Power: Teaching Research Skills Through The Study of American Protest Movements

Ludy Aguada

Published September 2019

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Bibliography

Barrett, Dawson. The Defiant: Protest Movements in Post-liberal America. New York: New York University Press, 2018.

Blackpast, B. (2011, November 7) (1854) William Lloyd Garrison, “No Compromise with the Evil of Slavery”. Retrieved from https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/1854-william-lloyd-garrison-no-compromise-evil-slavery/

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954).

California Department of Education. “School Directory.” Accessed July 9, 2019. https://www.cde.ca.gov/SchoolDirectory/results?districts=1027&status=1&search=1

Cameron, Christopher, “To Plead Our Own Cause:  African Americans in Massachusetts and the Making of the Antislavery Movement” (2014). American Abolitionism and Antislavery.5. https://digitalcommons.kent.edu/abolitionism/5

The Declaration of Independence, 1776. https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript. Accessed July 29, 2019.

Documenting the American South. “Frederick Douglass, 1818-1895.” Accessed July 3, 2019. https://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/douglass/bio.html

Dolton, Patricia F., and Aimee Graham. "Women's Suffrage Movement." Reference & User Services Quarterly 54, no. 2 (2014): 31-36. http://www.jstor.org/stable/refuseserq.54.2.31.

Equal Rights Amendment. https://www.equalrightsamendment.org/. Accessed July 31, 2019.

Frey, R. Scott, Thomas Dietz, and Linda Kalof. "Characteristics of Successful American Protest Groups: Another Look at Gamson's Strategy of Social Protest." American Journal of Sociology 98, no. 2 (1992): 368-87. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2781866.

Garrison, William Lloyd. No Compromise with Slavery (1854). The Library of Congress. Accessed July 23, 2019. https://www.loc.gov/item/91899126/

Heiny, Louisa M. A. "Radical Abolitionist Influence on Federalism and the Fourteenth Amendment." The American Journal of Legal History 49, no. 2 (2007): 180-96. doi:10.2307/25470008.

Klarman, Michael J. Unfinished Business: Racial Equality in American History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Madison, James. Federalist No. 10 (1787). https://billofrightsinstitute.org/founding-documents/primary-source-documents/the-federalist-papers/federalist-papers-no-10/. Accessed August 10, 2019.

Moody, Anne. Coming of Age in Mississippi. New York: Delta Trade Paperbacks, 2004. This memoir details Moody’s life in the segregated South and her involvement with the Civil Rights Movement.

Occupy Wall Street: We Are the 99 Percent. http://occupywallst.org/. Accessed August 1, 2019.

Pierson, Michael D. ""Slavery Cannot Be Covered up with Broadcloth or a Bandanna": The Evolution of White Abolitionist Attacks on the "Patriarchal Institution"." Journal of the Early Republic 25, no. 3 (2005): 383-415. http://www.jstor.org/stable/30043336.

Reynolds, John. The Fight for Freedom: A Memoir of My Years in the Civil Rights Movement. Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2012.

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute. Stanford University. https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/index.htm. Accessed July 29, 2019

Schumpeter, Joseph. “Chapters XXI and XXII,” Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy. Hand-out from Ian Shapiro.

Strain, Christopher B. “How Immigrants’ Rights, LGBTQ, and Conservative Activists Appropriate Memories of the Black Freedom Struggle.” Journal of Civil and Human Rights, vol. 1, no. 2 (Fall/Winter 2015), 231-235. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/jcivihumarigh.1.2.0231.

The Murder of Emmett Till. PBS. January 20, 2003. Accessed June 1, 2019. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/till/.

U.S. Const., amend. XIII

U.S. Const., amend. XIV

U.S. Const., amend. XV

Resistance: Reclaiming an American Tradition. Jeff Biggers

When Freedom Would Triumph. Robert Mann

Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice. Raymond Arsenault

What Democracy Looks Like: The Rhetoric of Social Movements and Counterpolitics, Christina R. Foust, Amy Pason, and Kate Zittlow Rogness (eds.)

The Norton Reader.  W.W. Norton & Company

The Language of Composition:  Reading, Writing, Rhetoric. Shea, Reneé, Lawrence Scanlon, and Robin Dissin Aufses (eds.). Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2nd Edition.

Latinos and the Voting Rights Act:  The Search for Racial Purpose. Henry Flores.

“Local Protest and Federal Policy:  The Impact of the Civil Right Movement on the 1964 Civil Rights Act.” Kenneth T. Andrew and Sarah Gaby. Sociological Forum, Vol. 30, No. S1, Special Issue:  Commemorating the Anniversary of the Civil Rights Laws (June 2015), pp. 509-527.

“Race, Representation, and the Voting Rights Act.” Sophie Schuit and Jon C. Rogowski. American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 61, No. 3 (July 2017), pp. 513-526.

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