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Freedom Fighters

Age/Grade Level or Audience

Elementary, middle school, and high school history classes; historical societies; civic clubs.

Description

Generate capsule biographies of great African-American leaders.

Procedure

Have pairs of students pose as interviewers and great civil rights leaders, such as these:

Ralph Abernathy Medgar Evers James Meredith Martin Luther King, Jr. Mary C. Terrell Elijah Muhammad Marcus Garvey Martin Delany Paul Cuffe Nat Turner Daisy Bates Whitney Young Fannie Lou Hamer Stokely Carmichael H. Rap Brown

Constance Baker Motley Thurgood Marshall Adam Clayton Powell Roy Wilkins Angela Davis Jesse Jackson Coretta Scott King James Foreman James Farmer Malcolm X Louis Farrakhan Josiah Henson Charlayne Hunter-Gault Rosa Parks Faye Wattleton

Compose question-and-answer sessions between pairs of participants. Concentrate on the theme of progress and liberation for black people.

Sources

Films such as An Amazing Grace (1974), Eyes on the Prize (1986), and Malcolm X (1992).
"Civil Rights Heroes Who Were Killed in Fight to Help Blacks Gain Right to Vote," Jet, October 26, 1992, pp. 10-11, 16.
Hunter-Gault, Charlayne, In My Place, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1992.
Lanker, Brian, I Dream a World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America, Stewart, Tabori, and Chang, 1989.
Meriwether, Louise, Don't Ride the Bus on Monday: The Rosa Parks Story, Prentice-Hall, 1973.

Alternative Applications

Create a newspaper, creative writing magazine, or daily public address program featuring information about African-American freedom fighters. Over individual strength and power, emphasize the importance of education, beliefs, courage, determination, religious faith, cooperation, and nonviolent collective action, as demonstrated by Malcolm X, Faye Wattleton, Adam Clayton Powell, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther King, Jr.