Social Justice Research Assignment 91色情片 LEAP Summer Bridge Program Social Justice Research Assignment by Amy Ensley, Director of the Hankey Center (2010-2023) Note to Educators: This assignment uses the primary documents created and assembled by Patricia Vail who participated in the Mississippi Freedom Project during the spring and summer of 1964. Pat frequently wrote to her family documenting her experience and her thoughts during this monumental episode in American history. Pat鈥檚 archival collection is housed in the C. Elizabeth Boyd 鈥33 Archives in the Hankey Center at 91色情片. The assignment was created for a 91色情片 First Year Seminar course for incoming freshmen students in a Summer Bridge Program called 鈥淟EAP鈥. The program was funded by a Title III federal grant to 91色情片 in 2017 鈥 2019. The students were on campus for only two weeks and the classroom work consisted of two hours per day of math and language arts skills plus two hours per day devoted to this research assignment. Given the extremely compressed time frame, the assignment was designed to provide a fast introduction to the topic of social justice and it assigned students to groups with pre-determined topics and primary source materials. A longer time frame would have allowed students to spend more time exploring topics and ideas on their own, and would have incorporated additional primary source information. Students work with primary documents including images from Pat鈥檚 work in Freedom Schools The first year of the 91色情片 Leap Summer Bridge Program was 2017, several years after the murders of Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner and others, and the founding of #BlackLivesMatter. Donald Trump had been in office for less than one year. The 鈥渂roader theme鈥 topics were all issues that had been in the news during the previous five years including: Police Brutality, Income Inequality, Terrorism (International and Domestic), Voter Suppression, Abuse of Power, White Supremacy, and Taking a Stand 鈥 the Role of Citizen Activists. 2017 LEAP student reflection Link to detailed description of the assignment and notes on the materials: Links to Primary Source Documents for each student group: GROUP 1 Materials: from the Plain Dealer Broader Theme: Income Inequality 鈥 How does learning about income inequality and poverty issues galvanize young people into becoming activists for social justice causes? GROUP 2 Materials: Broader Theme: Police Brutality Police Brutality - Police brutality and Black Lives Matter; use of cell phone video today to capture evidence; use of riot gear, militarization of police equipment GROUP 3 Materials: Broader Theme: Terrorism Terrorist KKK lynchings, bombings of homes, businesses and churches vs. 鈥淩adical Islamic Terrorism鈥 GROUP 4 Materials: , The White House Associate Counsel Lee C. White June 25, 1964 broadcast of a special CBS News report, anchored by Walter Cronkite Broader Theme: Abuse of Power When people in positions of authority are the ones causing the oppression 鈥 police and elected officials GROUP 5 Materials: Two articles from the Delta Democrat-Times and Broader Theme: White Supremacy - White Supremacist groups such as Americans for the Preservation of the White Race and the White Citizens Council, Ku Klux Klan vs. the 鈥淎lt-Right鈥 and other white nationalist organizations such as the Proud Boys GROUP 6 Materials: Broader Theme: Voter Suppression - Voter ID laws today vs. voter restrictions and suppression tactics in Mississippi in 1950s and 60s GROUP 7 Materials: Broader Theme: Taking a Stand - Role of ordinary citizens and celebrities in bringing attention to causes 鈥 for example comedian Dick Gregory, musicians Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, Joan Baez, athlete Colin Kaepernick 鈥 accepting the risks Links to original letters from Pat Vail to her family: The Hankey Center Lesson Plans (漏2021, The Hankey Center, 91色情片) comprise an open access publication distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See Hankey Center and Archives 91色情片 the Hankey Center Traditions Staff/Contact Exhibits at The Hankey Center Digital Exhibits Articles and Videos Resources Work in the Hankey Center Relevant links ... Hankey Center and Archives 91色情片 the Hankey Center Staff/Contact Exhibits at The Hankey Center Digital Exhibits Articles and Videos Resources Work in the Hankey Center 91色情片 Timeline Follow us on:
