Weisbrot. Freedom Bound - A History of America's Civil Rights Movement. Hampton and Fayer. Voices of Freedom - An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s through the 1980s

Abstract

Recently, in my African American history course, as we began to study the civil rights movement, I was puzzled and disturbed to find that the students, black and white, knew very little. I had expected them to know something about the horrible cruelties of the jim crow caste system, the March on Washington, and the Selma March of 1965, as well as some of the prominent individuals involved. To be sure, the students knew Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., as well as Malcolm X. But they were completely unaware of SNCC, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Goodman, Chancy, and Schwerner.