Resources for Educators and Adults

Primary & Secondary Sources Included in the Inquiry

The vast majority of sources in this inquiry were gathered from the following three collections:

• I Am a Man Project, Wayne State

• University of Memphis Digital Commons

• 1,300 Men: Memphis Strike ‘68, The Root

I am incredibly grateful for the work of Wayne State, the University of Memphis Digital Commons, and the Root.

Academic References

Cobb, C. E. (2016). This nonviolent stuff'll get you killed: How guns made the civil rights movement possible. Duke University Press.

Honey, M. K. (2008). Going down Jericho Road the memphis strike, Martin Luther King's last campaign. W.W. Norton.

Kent, S. (1999, January). Saints or Sinners? The Case for an Honest Portrayal of Historical Figures. ​Social Education, 63(​ 1), 8-12.

King, M. L. (1968). Where do we go from here? chaos or community? by Martin Luther King. Hodder & Stoughton.

Kohl, H. (1994). Politics of children’s literature: The Rosa Parks myth. ​Rethinking Schools,​ 5(2), 10-13.

National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS), (2013). The College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies State Standards: Guidance for Enhancing the Rigor of K-12 Civics, Economics, Geography, and History. Silver Spring, MD: NCSS, 2013.

Picower, B. (2012). Using Their Words: Six Elements of Social Justice Curriculum Design for the Elementary Classroom. International Journal of Multicultural Education, 14(1).

Wills, J. S. (2005). ‘Some People Even Died’: Martin Luther King, Jr, the Civil Rights Movement and the Politics of Remembrance in elementary classrooms. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 18(1), 109–131.