Website URL: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/freedomriders/
Introductory Note:
Welcome to one in a series of posts which spotlight quality websites that I use with my U.S. History survey course students at Azusa Pacific University to enrich the regular material in our learning modules.
In this post, I limit myself to those specific aspects of the website which I find fit particularly well within our face-to-face class sessions (each student is required to bring a laptop to class) or as the basis for the students' regularly-assigned written reactions.
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I ask the students to work through the following links:
I. The Rides
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/freedomriders/rides
Follow the stops on this excellent interactive map and read the captions for each screen.
II. The People
a. Freedom Riders
Ralph Abernathy
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/freedomriders/people/ralph-abernathy
James Farmer
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/freedomriders/people/james-farmer
John Lewis
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/freedomriders/people/john-lewis
Joan Mulholland
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/freedomriders/people/joan-trumpauer-mulholland
James Peck
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/freedomriders/people/james-peck
Jim Zwerg
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/freedomriders/people/jim-zwerg
b. Movement Leaders
Diane Nash
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/freedomriders/people/diane-nash
Fred Shuttlesworth
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/freedomriders/people/fred-shuttlesworth
c. U.S. Federal Government
J.Edgar Hoover
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/freedomriders/people/j-edgar-hoover
Robert F. Kennedy
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/freedomriders/people/robert-f-kennedy
John Seigenthaler
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/freedomriders/people/john-seigenthaler
d. Other Figures
Eugene "Bull" Connor
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/freedomriders/people/eugene-bull-connor
John Patterson
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/freedomriders/people/john-patterson
Howard K. Smith
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/freedomriders/people/howard-k-smith-cbs
III. The Issues
Jim Crow Laws
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/freedomriders/issues/jim-crow-laws
Slow Progress
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/freedomriders/issues/slow-progress
The Solid South
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/freedomriders/issues/the-solid-south
The Cold War
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/freedomriders/issues/the-cold-war
The Media
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/freedomriders/issues/the-media
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Concluding Note:
I hope you will use this blog post in conjunction with both the modules on my Learning Professor wiki and the numerous other posts in my Website Spotlight series.
1. The website spotlighted in this post fits within the following U.S. History survey course module on the wiki:
http://thelearningprofessor.wikispaces.com/Civil+Rights
2. The other blog posts in my Website Spotlight series--chronologically displayed by U.S. History survey course module-- can be found on this wiki page:
http://thelearningprofessor.wikispaces.com/WEBSITE+SPOTLIGHT
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