The following lesson plans and personal reflections or projects were produced by participants in the NEH Landmarks workshop in June 2012 entitled “The Most Southern Place on Earth.”
Push and Pull Factors in the Great Migration by Cory Williams
True Blues lesson plans by Genein Letford, Markette Pierce, and Kim Norment
Immigration at the Crossroads by Krista Fiabane
Blues: Music that Speaks the Truth by Steve Lawrence and Joe Wooding
Civil Rights by Jan Schmidgall
Blues Musicians by Sharman Galezewski
Silver Rights: Using Personal Testimony to Create Poetry by Carol Hearron
Reflections by Dave Adams
The Tragedy of Hamlet by Kathy Trump, Jeanne Pellegrino, and Mark Getz
The Murder of Emmett Till by John Peterson
Civil Rights, Music and the Constitution by Brad Faulhaber
“The biggest town in the Mississippi Delta”: Reconnecting the Delta and Chicago via the Blues by Greg Simmons
Puppet show using “One Shoes Blues” by Sandra Boynton starring B. B. King by Teresa Honecker
Playing the Blues and Delta Blues Musicians by Victor de Diego
Fannie Lou Hamer: Sharecropper Turned Civil Rights Leader by Craig A. Windt
“The Most Southern Place on Earth: Music, Culture, and History in the Mississippi Delta” by Lynne Schneider
http://www.mariannemississippi12.blogspot.com/ by Marianne Forman
Projected Changes for U.S. History Classes by Russ Irving
MississippiDelta–‐Performance Art by Sherri Gray
Music History Project by Bailey Pettit
Creative Writing by Jeffrey Potter
A Comparative Analysis o School Desegregation and Its Impact by Tamara Rhone
Journal by Eric Berge
Google Earth Tours of the Delta by Kelly Hill Scanlon
Thoughts by Michael Ellery, plus The Great Migration and Civil Rights
5th Grade Delta Blues Discovery Unit by Rachelle Moyer Francis
Reflections by Jennifer Stone
African American Gospel Services by Diana Brown
DIGITAL STORIES OF THE SOUTH DURING THE CIVIL RIGHTS ERA
What did it mean to be a Southerner during this time period: the voices, the places, the events, the music? by Dr. Penny B. Ferguson
Emmett Till by Cassie Cox
Music, Theatre and American History/social studies/Geography, Grade 5: Folk Stories, Folk ballads, work songs and how they relate to Human Rights by Mary MacQueen
Strange Fruit: What America Bares Through Lyric and Image (6th-8th 20th Century American History) by Heidi Imhof
Blues Songs by Regina Stuck
The Most Southern Place…Response by Tacy Bigelow
