Civil War Conclusions: What PBS\u27 Freedom Riders Can Teach Us

We often have a deep problem in the Historical community. We that have gone through training and courses in real history, who have been trained in the academy don\u27t know how to react when we get into the public history world. We step out on battlefields (or killingfields) and decide we can\u27t trust our audiences to understand our evidence. So, we hit them over the head with a two-by-four of rhetoric. We have this deep impulse to tell people what to think about what they see on our landscapes

Finding Aid for the Freedom Riders\u27 40th Anniversary Oral History Project (MUM00058)

The University of Mississippi\u27s Freedom Riders oral history project includes interviews recorded in conjunction with the 40th anniversary held in Jackson, MS in the summer of 2001

Scrapbook: Jacksonville Sit-ins, Freedom Riders, Ax Handle Saturday and NAACP Youth Council Meetings.

This compilation by Hurst includes articles related to sit-ins, Ax Handle Saturday, desegregating hiring policies, freedom riders and other events related to civil rights in Jacksonville, Florida. Circa 1957-196

Interview with Edward Ed Harris, Brenda Dow, and Sylvester King

In May of 2013 Mr. Edward Harris sat down and discussed his brother, Herman K. Harris, who was a part of the freedom riders. Mr. Harris also discusses his military service and his tour of duty in Vietnam. This interview was conducted for inclusion into the Louise Pettus Archives and Special Collections Oral History Program.https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/oralhistoryprogram/1118/thumbnail.jp

“A cheap trafficking in human misery”: the reverse Freedom Rides of 1962

Shortly after 7 o'clock on the morning of 20 April 1962, Louis and Dorothy Boyd arrived at the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York City. The journey from their native New Orleans had taken forty-three hours. With the Boyds were their eight children, five girls and three boys aged between three and twelve years old. Between them the family carried their entire worldly possessions in three cardboard boxes and an old foot locker

Freedom Riders: Complex Characters Present Black Cavalry Regiment\u27s Plight

It was not until 1943, when Bell Irving Wiley published The Life of Johnny Reb, that the common soldier in the Civil War gained his voice. Although veterans on both sides of the conflict published reminiscences after the War, their memoirs lacked the perspective that only a scholar such as Wi...

The Bus Murals of Anniston: Teaching the Freedom Riders History

PBS\u27s American Experience makes available in streaming format its documentary of the Freedom Riders from the PBS website. With that and with a more detailed photographic slide show of the information panels on Anniston\u27s Burning Bus murals, I seek to bring my students to an awareness of ways that history, especially the history of the violence that met the Freedom Riders outside Anniston, is worthy of a revisiting in today\u27s times. I want to bring into my classroom an appreciation for the bus murals that depict the full history of the incident so that students attending Jacksonville State University can appreciate the effort it has taken to confront a contentious past and use the knowledge of racial antagonisms as a vehicle for bridging cultures. My target audience is Freshman Composition, where I normally teach the second level of the course, stressing literature modes of poetry, drama, fiction. I have long had a research project that allows for students to write on one of the pressing social issues: being ethnic in America, the need to be stewards of our environment, the ways we end gender bias. Using my opportunity to refine my specialties through a modest JSU Faculty Research Grant, I demonstrate the values of studying how the community of Anniston turned a hate crime incident into a force for positive change, even as leaders recognized that to broadcast their integrationist intentions publicly was dangerous. I stress in this account directed to teachers that we must more assertively guide students to forge a persuasive remedy to situations they see around them. They work primarily with literature but will also have a visual resource of historical significance much closer to JSU, one that we can hope bridges differences and begins to mold our citizens of tomorrow