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What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? By Frederick Douglass
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Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural Address by Abraham Lincoln
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Sweat by Zora Neale Hurston
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The Murder of Emmett Till
The murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till in 1955 brought nationwide attention to the racial violence and injustice prevalent in Mississippi. While visiting his relatives, Till went to the store with his cousins, and may have whistled at Carolyn Bryant. Her husband and brother-in-law kidnapped and brutally murdered Till, dumping his body in the Tallahatchie River. The newspaper coverage and murder trial galvanized a generation of young African Americans to join the Civil Rights Movement -
The Kissing Case of 1958
The Kissing Case was the arrest, conviction and lengthy sentencing of two prepubescent African-American boys in 1958 in North Carolina. James Thompson and his friend David Simpson were accused of kissing a girl who was white. The truth was that the white girl kissed them both on the cheek and told her mom about it. Her mom felt angry and approiached the boys with her husband with shotguns and acussed them of rape of their Daughter. -
A Letter to my Nephew by James Baldwin
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March on Washington
The largest gathering for civil rights of its time. The march focused on employment discrimination, and civil rights abuses against African Americans, Latinos, and other disenfranchised groups. It also showed support for the Civil Rights Act that they were attempting to pass through Congress. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King, Kr. was Baptist minister and social activist who led the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. His leadership was fundemental to that moverment's success in ending the legal segreagation of African Americans in the south and other parts of the United States. King rose to national prominecne when he led the massive March on Washingtion. -
Malcolm X
Malcom X was an African American leader and prominet figure in the Nation of Islam who articulated concpets of race pride and Black Nationalsim in the early 1960s. After his assassination, the widespread istriubtion of his life story made him an ideological hero. His influence and impact is still present especially amount the Black youth. -
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Paul Coates
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A 'Forgotten History' Of How The U.S. Government Segregated America by Terry Gross
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The Zoot Suit Riots and Wartime Los Angeles by Stephanie Hinnershitz
