RESOURCES
BELOW THE LIST OF RESOURCES are past examples (by category) of what we have done in the past (some of which we continue to do). Check our Blog for what we are currently doing. Feel free to give us a call 415-703-0465 if you would like to brainstorm some ideas or set up a meeting. You can also contact us by email.
VERY USEFUL links:
- Bay Area Civil Rights Veterans **Stories, **History, Timeline, **Interviews and Speakers List
- Stanford's King Research and Education Institute (instructional materials)
- SFFS FILM LIBRARY (including study guides) and BOOK LIBRARY are available all year round.
- SFFS Supplemental Readings
- Stories of Whites dealing with issues of race in the Mississippi Delta
- simple Civil Rights History timeline
- Rethinking Schools - resources for teachers
- Race, Poverty and the Environment - highly readable research reports on current struggles
- and more
ACTIVITIES to download:
- Social Movement Jeopardy slideshow game(ppt) and answer key (pdf)
- Social Movement Bingo
- Social Movement Trivial Pursuit Board Game (also available to borrow)
History of Civil Rights Movement as a case study of how social movements happen (ppt)
Key Components for a social movement to happen- infrastructure, dealing with the contradictions within the mvt, local leadership development, identify the problem, do your homework, coalition building, developing personal relationships, community building, strategic use of nonviolent resistance, strategic use of the arts, right historical moment. Worksheet (some definitions draft!)