SFFS at SFSU

Business Building (facing the Quad behind HSS and between Science and Admin)

Room 138 --  6:10 to 9:50  -- Discussion then Movies are usually at 8 pm

 DROP INS WELCOME!

Textbook: Lessons from Freedom Summer

Wednesday August 31: Building the Foundations of the Movement

                        Movie:  10,000 Men Named George (or Miles of Smiles)

Readings:

o      Lessons From Freedom Summer – Chapters One and Two; including links to the 1964 Freedom School Curriculum cited within the chapter.

o      Black Resistance to Racist Violence

Wednesday September 7: Building the Foundations of the Movement

    Movie: With All Deliberate Speed

Readings: Lessons from Freedom Summer -  Chapter Three (CORE); including links to the 1964 Freedom School Curriculum cited within the chapter

Wednesday September 14:  Role of Education in Movement Building

                        Movie: You Got to Move

Readings: Lessons from Freedom Summer – Chapter Four (SCLC); including links to the 1964 Freedom School Curriculum cited within the chapter

Wednesday September 21: The Montgomery Bus Boycott   

GUEST SPEAKER:  BRUCE HARTFORD

                        Movie: Boycott

ONLINE Readings:  
Miscellaneous readings
from CRMvet.org   
Stanford's King Center Encyclopedia
SFFS supplemental readings (scribd)
Key Components of a Social Movement Wrksht

Wednesday September 28: ----  Sit Ins and the formation of SNCC   

GUEST SPEAKER:  PHIL HUTCHINGS FROM 7 PM TO 8 PM (OR LATER)

                        Movie FROM 6:30 TO 7 PM When We Were Warriors

Readings: Lessons from Freedom Summer -  Chapter Five (SNCC); including links to the 1964 Freedom School Curriculum cited within the chapter

Wednesday October 5:  Freedom Rides   

GUEST SPEAKER:  MIMI FEINGOLD REAL

                        Movie: excerpts from Eyes on the Prize

Readings: TBD

Wednesday October 12: The White Power Structure in Mississippi   

GUEST SPEAKER: WAZIR PEACOCK

                        Movie: Freedom Song

                        Readings: Lessons from Freedom Summer -  Chapter Six and Seven (The Challenge of Mississippi; including links to the 1964 Freedom School Curriculum cited within the chapter

                       

Wednesday October 19:  Freedom Summer – Mississippi 1960-63   

                        Movie: Freedom on My Mind

Readings: Lessons from Freedom Summer -  Chapters Eight and Nine; including links to the 1964 Freedom School Curriculum cited within the chapter

Wednesday October 26: Freedom Summer – Formation of the MFDP
GUEST SPEAKER:  CHUDE ALLEN and MIRIAM GLICKMAN 
                          Movie: Freedom on my Mind

Readings: Lessons from Freedom Summer -  Chapter Ten and Eleven; including links to the 1964 Freedom School Curriculum cited within the chapter

                         

Wednesday November 9: Selma to Montgomery   

GUEST SPEAKER:  JIMMY ROGERS

                        Movie: from Eyes on the Prize

Readings:

Wednesday November 16:  From Civil Rights to Black Power 

GUEST SPEAKER: TBD

                        Movie: Orangeburg Massacre

                        Readings: download selections from the Ilearn page

Wednesday November 23 – NO CLASS – Thanksgiving break

Wednesday November 30: From Civil Rights to Black Power   

Readings: download selections from the Ilearn page                                                           

Wednesday December 7: Reflections on Projects and the Course.