The following lesson plans and personal reflections or projects were produced by participants in the July 2010 NEH Landmarks workshop entitled “The Most Southern Place on Earth.”
Emmett Till by Michelle Miles
Civil Rights Movement by Nancy Mazgajewski and Roberta Gilston with powerpoint and web resources
Murder of Emmett Till by Andrew Witte
Sharecropping by Gale Carter with homework sheet 1 and 2
The Freedom Riders in Mississippi by Megan Lehman
When the Levee Breaks by Jeff Moss
How should Fannie Lou Hamer be remembered? by Maura Donnelly
AP English and American Government Joint Unit on Civil Rights and the Poetry of Langston Hughes by Cynthia Webb
Migration by Herb West
Reviewing the Case: Deliberating on the Emmett Till Case By Erin Bronstein
The Great Migration by Eric Katz
Cries for Help: Popular Visions of Lynching and Their Impact by Charles Montague
Highway 61 and the Blues by Carole LaBonte’
Connecting the Path: Blues Musicians of the Delta by Hope Grover
Geography of the Mississippi Delta by Chris Vicknair
Comparing Human Actions on the Mississippi and Nile Rivers by Amanda Armstrong with PowerPoint
Flowing Water by Bridget Kracik
Facebook Justice Network by Kathy Bounds
Race and Poverty in America by Joe Martin
Gospel/Blues Music in Literature: The Mix of Religion and Life by Audra Rys
Multi-Genre Research Project by Michelle Best
Lessons for Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Jolie Augustine
Comparative Analysis Between Indigenous and Delta Oral Traditions Through 49 Songs and the Blues by Eric Tippeconnic
LaLee’s Kin and Civic Engagement by Jayne Fought-Schlemmer
Immigration Oral Histories (Using Chinese Immigrants to Greenville, MS as an example) by Megan McCabe
Origins of the Blues by Kathy Pauls
CIVIL RIGHTS MUSEUM EXHIBITS By Diane Nowacki
Documenting Immigration through oral histories by Steven Seltz
Blues Poems by Maria Noffsinger with a reading list
Emmett Till by Xosé Manuel Alvariño
The “Math” of the Blues by Josh Gilgoff
Fannie Lou Hamer by Jeff Rosen and Suzanne Schernwetter, page 1,2,3,4,5,6,7
The Great Migration by Jeff Rosen and Suzanne Schernwetter, page 1,2, 3, 4, 5
The Death of Emmett Till by Michelle Edwards, with questions, song lyrics, information on lynching and questions
A Difficult Lesson: Perpetrators, Bystanders & Victims Stereotypes by Kurt Peterson
Examining the fairness of trial by jury through the Emmett Till Case by Samuel McGraw
