Dear Scholars,
Welcome to our blog! This is a space for built exclusively for you to record your thoughts and responses to the readings, conversations and other posts that we encounter this week. We encourage you to go beyond your daily posts and read other scholars' responses, actively engaging and questioning each other, so that you make the most of this experience, and come away with a variety of perspectives on civil rights during the black freedom movement and now.
So for your first assignment, we asked you to post any passages or quotations that struck you in the Richard Wright and Ernest Gaines readings. Please post those passages/quotations into your post, and write a brief response to them, explaining why you chose them, why you think they are important, or if something puzzles you, raise questions about it.
Thanks, and I look forward to reading and responding to your work!
-danielle
Murder during Freedom Summer
These three men, (from right), Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and Michael Schwerner were abducted and murdered in Mississippi in the summer of 1964 because of their involvment in activism related to Freedom Summer. National attention was directed to this spectacle, as an alarming indicator that the sacrifices of the movement weren't exclusively black. White segregationists in Mississippi sought to make an example of Goodman and Schwerner to frighten other whites involved in the struggle. It didn't work.
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