History 321--Schedule of Assignments

Unit One-- The Civil Rights Movement

Wednesday, February 14—Race and Jim Crow

  • Eliza VanDeWiele—John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me
  • Jill Wallin—James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
  • Sepp Paczelt—Gunnar Myrdal, The American Dilemma

Friday, February 16—The Movement

·        Melissa Gizas—Merrill Proudfoot, Diary of a Sit-In

·        Susan Marks—Martin Luther King, Jr., Why We Can’t Wait

·        Donna Wilson—Howell Raines, My Soul Is Rested

·        Rich Kremer—Anne Moody, Coming of Age in Mississippi

Monday, February 19—Reactions, Responses, and Perceptions

  • Kevin Pattee—Tom Cohen, Three Who Dared
  • Tony Meyers—Nicolas Von Hoffman, Mississippi Notebook
  • Cody Ryder—James K. Kilpatrick, The Sovereign States

Wednesday, February 21—The Comic Lens

  • Jeremy Peterson—Dick Gregory, Nigger:  An Autobiography
  • Tom Piller—Dick Gregory, What’s Happening