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Using the Civil Rights Movement to Practice Activism in the Classroom

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Margaret Earley Whitt
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During my winter sabbatical of 2004, I found myself one day in Hayneville, Alabama, a small hamlet off highway 80, the lonely stretch of asphalt that connects Selma with Montgomery. This is the same road that hundreds walked in 1965, to be joined by thousands more as they neared the state's capitol building in the last hurrah of the modern civil rights movement.

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The Changing Profession
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PMLA , Volume 124 , Issue 3 , May 2009 , pp. 856 - 863
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 2009

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