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Hello CRS Friends!

Here is the online photo album for the 2013 U.Va. Lifetime Learning Civil Rights South Seminar with Julian Bond. Thank you for sharing this amazing experience. To add your photos to the album email them to us.

Althea

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Educational Materials for Participants:

Remembering the "Bloody Sunday" 1965 Civil Rights March

Vice President Joe Biden walks arm in arm with congresswoman Terri Sewell and Congressman John Lewis while crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge during the bridge crossing jubilee in Selma, Alabama on Sunday March 3, 2013. Read article.

The Civil Rights South participants will walk over the bridge on Tuesday March 12!

5 Classic Books About the Civil Rights Movement

Recommended reading list from www.care2.com.

Myrlie Evers-Williams at the Inauguration

We are thrilled to have her as a speaker for the seminar! Watch the video of her invocation.

Good and Evil in Birmingham

Here is an extremely interesting article that will be good for the travelers, sent from Julian. Read article.

New Online Resource on the Civil Rights Movement

The University of Virginia’s Project on Lived Theology has launched a new online resource, The Civil Rights Movement as Theological Drama, that brings together hundreds of firsthand accounts of how religious convictions played a multifaceted role in the Civil Rights Movement. Read article.

Julian Bond, Chairman Emeritus, NAACP and Professor Emeritus, History, U.Va.

People Get Ready

Read the article, People Get Ready: Music and the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s by Brian Ward, a British scholar. It makes for good reading in preparation for what you will listen to - and sing along with - Rutha Harris and her Freedom Singers from Albany, Georgia.

Listen

Dear Friends,

Choosing reading materials for the Civil Rights South Seminar is a daunting challenge. The civil rights bibliography is lengthy and constantly expanding. Books on the following list are followed by descriptions. If you are a fast reader, consume the Taylor Branch trilogy – they are the very best books on the American civil rights movement and tell its familiar story with fascinating new detail and analysis - Parting the Waters, Pillar of Fire, and At Canaan’s Edge.

Aldon Morris’ Origins of the Civil Rights Movement provides excellent background to the movement. Glenn Eskew’s But for Birmingham describes that city’s movement. Vincent Harding’s Hope and History places the civil rights movement in a modern context.

An exciting new book is certainly worthwhile (but hold off on purchasing it!) - Hands on the Freedom Plow; Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC. Fifty-two women--northern and southern, young and old, urban and rural, black, white, and Latina--share their courageous personal stories of working for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) on the front lines of the Civil Rights Movement. Another new book – written by my former TA when I taught at Harvard, Jeanne Theoharris – is The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks.

For Louisiana’s civil rights history – Adam Fairclough’s Race and Democracy: The Civil Rights Movement in Louisiana 1915-1972.

Visit the Suggested Reading page for more books and articles your might be interested in to prepare for the seminar.

Julian Bond

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Cindy Fredrick, Associate Vice President
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