Murdered at 14 years old in Money, Mississippi. The spectacle surrounding Till's murder was one of the precipitating events leading to the Civil Rights Movement.
for my essay I will write relate a time of my life to "the sky is gray". The scene was went the boy was hungry but his mother had no money to give because the money she had was to leave town and pay the dentist.
This blog is for the participants of the 2007 Vassar-SEO Program on the Civil Rights Movement. Post all thoughts and responses to the work we read or view here. Click on the links below for blogs from last year Enjoy!
Monday, July 30: Theory and Practice of Jim Crow 9-10:45 am: *Richard Wright, "The Ethics of Living Jim Crow: An Autobiographical Sketch" (1937), preface to Uncle Tom's Children: Five Long Stories (NY: Harper and Brothers, 1938), ix-xxx. *Ernest J. Gaines, "The Sky is Gray" (1968), chap. in Bloodline (NY: Norton, 1976), 83-117.
2-3:30 pm: Watch The Road to Brown (California Newsreel, 1990), 58 minutes.
Tuesday, July 31: Legal Strategizing: Brown v. Board of Education, 1954-1955 9-10:45 am: Civil Rights Reader, 61-96.
2-3:30 pm: Watch The Murder of Emmett Till (Firelight Media, 2003), 60 minutes.
Wednesday, August 1: The Death of Emmett Till, 1955 and Southern Lives Under Segregation 9-11:30 am: Civil Rights Reader, 35-60.
* Watch The Boondocks, "Return of the King" (Sony Pictures, 2006)
Thursday, August 2: Malcolm X and His Leagacy 9-10:45 am: *Malcolm X with Alex Haley, excerpt from The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965), in Crossing the Danger Water: Three Hundred Years of African-American Writing, ed. Deirdre Mullane (NY: Anchor, 1993), 660-669. Civil Rights Reader, 244-262.
2-3:30 pm: Watch clip of Spike Lee's Malcolm X (Warner Brothers, 1992), 210 minutes.
Friday, August 3: Mississippi Freedom Summer and Inter-Racial Activism 9-10:45 am: Civil Rights Reader, 166-186.
2-3:30 pm: Watch clip of Freedom on My Mind (California Newsreel, 1994), 110 minutes.
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