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Primary
Michigan State University

Michigan State University: Port Huron Statement: Students for a Democratic Society

For Students 9th - 10th
The text of the Port Huron Statement of the Students for a Democratic Society, 1962.
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Website
Other

Free Speech Movement Archives

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers a nearly exhaustive list of web resources on the subject of the Free Speech Movement of the sixties and seventies.
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Lesson Plan
Other

Teaching the Journal of American History: Flaunting the Freak Flag

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This very complete lesson plan uses an article from the Journal of American History to teach about the student movement of the the 1960s and 1970s. Everything necessary for the lesson is provided including the exercises for teaching the...
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Unit Plan
Virginia Tech

Digital History Reader: Who Won? Student Protest and Politics of Campus Dissent

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore American college students' political views, convictions, and concerns in the midst of the war in Vietnam through several articles, images, further reading, and writing assignments. Student protests on campuses across the nation...
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Primary
Michigan State University

Michigan State University: Msu Libraries: Students for a Democratic Society

For Students 9th - 10th
Primary source documents and texts related to the Students For a Democratic Society movement, a student protest group in the 1960s. All materials can be downloaded.
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Website
Other

Chronologies of the Conflict

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers five different chronologies written at different times by different people with interests in the event and therefore with different emphasis and perspectives. All chronologies offer dates of events and developments and...
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Article
Other

Nothingness.org: Social Anarchism: The Way the Wind

For Students 9th - 10th
A book review of Way of the Wind by Ron Jacobs provides extensive information about the radical group, the Weathermen.
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Graphic
Other

Jackson State, May 1970

For Students 9th - 10th
Text on the Jackson State University shootings a well as pictures of the memorial and the building where bullet holes can still be seen.
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Primary
PBS

Pbs Online News Hour: Tales From the Underground

For Students 9th - 10th
A reporter speaks to two former Weathermen radicals who are middle aged now. Would they do what they did during their youth knowing what they know now? They both said positively.
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Website
PBS

Pbs: Independent Lens: The Weather Underground

For Students 9th - 10th
Read background about the Weathermen, a radical group in the 1960s which protested the Vietnam War and racism with often violent acts. This introduction is to a video shown on PBS in 2003. Find interviews with members of the Weather...
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Primary
Other

Mario Savio's Speech Before the Fsm Sit In

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the conclusion of activist Mario Savio's speech to the Free Speech Movement demonstrators in 1964 before the group entered Sproul Hall to begin their historic sit-in.
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Handout
Internet History Sourcebooks Project

Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Mario Savio

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Fordham University offers bio and obituary of Mario Savio, 1960's leader of the Free Speech movement.