2014 marked the 50th anniversary of Wednesdays in Mississippi, a little-known story of American housewives who created change in their communities. Learn about the contributions of and challenges for these women from interviews and historical documents that tell the story of how they organized across racial and geographic lines during the Civil Rights Movement.
(This presentation was originally given at the University of Kentucky during an African-American and African Studies lecture conducted by Dr. DaMaris B. Hill on November 18, 2014.)
Women in Civil Resistance - Dr. Mary King & Dr. Anne-Marie Codur (FSI2013)NonviolentConflict
Most women’s activism has historically been nonviolent direct action, which has helped develop the technique of civil resistance. Movements for abolition of slavery and women’s suffrage made common cause in the nineteenth century. Women’s activism has been the galvanizing force in several civil-resistance movements, for example, the Montgomery bus boycott (1955–1956) that launched the U.S. civil rights movement was sparked by JoAnne Robinson and the city’s black women’s political council.
Women can sometimes exploit traditional political space as wives, mothers and nurturers, as did German gentile women married to Jewish men, who in 1943 saved their husbands through street protests in Berlin. Las Madres de la Plaza de Mayo dared to march weekly in Argentina’s capital, 1977–1983, seeking acknowledgment that their children had been “disappeared” by the military generals. Their audacious demonstrations created the dynamic that would lead to the fall of the regime. Women have sometimes been able to accomplish what their male peers could not, as with the Palestinian women who led popular committees in the 1987 intifada. Israeli women’s activism in the Israeli “Four Mothers Movement” exerted such pressure on the Israeli government that the IDF withdrew from Lebanon in 2000.
The significance of women’s leadership, decision-making, strategy, organization, communications, networking, and tactics needs to be more systemically surveyed and acknowledged, as their role is critical in the success of any movement of civil resistance.
(This presentation was originally given at the University of Kentucky during an African-American and African Studies lecture conducted by Dr. DaMaris B. Hill on November 18, 2014.)
Women in Civil Resistance - Dr. Mary King & Dr. Anne-Marie Codur (FSI2013)NonviolentConflict
Most women’s activism has historically been nonviolent direct action, which has helped develop the technique of civil resistance. Movements for abolition of slavery and women’s suffrage made common cause in the nineteenth century. Women’s activism has been the galvanizing force in several civil-resistance movements, for example, the Montgomery bus boycott (1955–1956) that launched the U.S. civil rights movement was sparked by JoAnne Robinson and the city’s black women’s political council.
Women can sometimes exploit traditional political space as wives, mothers and nurturers, as did German gentile women married to Jewish men, who in 1943 saved their husbands through street protests in Berlin. Las Madres de la Plaza de Mayo dared to march weekly in Argentina’s capital, 1977–1983, seeking acknowledgment that their children had been “disappeared” by the military generals. Their audacious demonstrations created the dynamic that would lead to the fall of the regime. Women have sometimes been able to accomplish what their male peers could not, as with the Palestinian women who led popular committees in the 1987 intifada. Israeli women’s activism in the Israeli “Four Mothers Movement” exerted such pressure on the Israeli government that the IDF withdrew from Lebanon in 2000.
The significance of women’s leadership, decision-making, strategy, organization, communications, networking, and tactics needs to be more systemically surveyed and acknowledged, as their role is critical in the success of any movement of civil resistance.
In modern era, electronic media is significant part of our life & a key to change the society.
The role and status of women in any society can be studied through the images of women which the media projects.
But the presentation of women in the media is biased because it emphasises women’s domestic, sexual, consumer & marital activities to the exclusion of all else.
This presentation explores the influence of Friedan's Feminist Mystique 50 Years Later. Specifically, it looks at Pinterest pins featuring the Feminine Mystique.
7 Minute "Shift and Share" Presentation given at "Strength Beyond our Walls" event with RWJF Nurse Executive Fellows, showing the example of a vulnerable population (people who are transgender or gender non-conforming) and hidden strengths (transformational leadership and compassion and acceptance for others)
History Camp: Temperance: The Doorway to SuffrageColleen Janz
The Temperance Movement was more important than many people think, as it was actually the doorway to the Suffrage Movement. Learn how women empowered themselves and overcame obstacles to pave the way for the next stage, Suffrage.
A powerpoint about my book, Before They Left Us, a historical memoir about San Francisco starting in the mid-70s portraying the people, politics, and passion surrounding its Midwestern narrator, a young woman living in the Castro neighborhood. Includes Harvey Milk/George Moscone assassinations. and the onset of AIDS in both San Francisco and Minneapolis.
The year 2014 marks the 50th anniversary of Mississippi Freedom Summer. This program introduces educators to materials that investigate how community organizing, Jewish values, and moral conviction influenced the lives of Jewish Freedom Summer activists. During the session, Etta King, JWA’s Education Program Manager, models activities that you can use to teach your students about courage, activism, and Jewish identity using the Living the Legacy curriculum.
In modern era, electronic media is significant part of our life & a key to change the society.
The role and status of women in any society can be studied through the images of women which the media projects.
But the presentation of women in the media is biased because it emphasises women’s domestic, sexual, consumer & marital activities to the exclusion of all else.
This presentation explores the influence of Friedan's Feminist Mystique 50 Years Later. Specifically, it looks at Pinterest pins featuring the Feminine Mystique.
7 Minute "Shift and Share" Presentation given at "Strength Beyond our Walls" event with RWJF Nurse Executive Fellows, showing the example of a vulnerable population (people who are transgender or gender non-conforming) and hidden strengths (transformational leadership and compassion and acceptance for others)
History Camp: Temperance: The Doorway to SuffrageColleen Janz
The Temperance Movement was more important than many people think, as it was actually the doorway to the Suffrage Movement. Learn how women empowered themselves and overcame obstacles to pave the way for the next stage, Suffrage.
A powerpoint about my book, Before They Left Us, a historical memoir about San Francisco starting in the mid-70s portraying the people, politics, and passion surrounding its Midwestern narrator, a young woman living in the Castro neighborhood. Includes Harvey Milk/George Moscone assassinations. and the onset of AIDS in both San Francisco and Minneapolis.
The year 2014 marks the 50th anniversary of Mississippi Freedom Summer. This program introduces educators to materials that investigate how community organizing, Jewish values, and moral conviction influenced the lives of Jewish Freedom Summer activists. During the session, Etta King, JWA’s Education Program Manager, models activities that you can use to teach your students about courage, activism, and Jewish identity using the Living the Legacy curriculum.
Hands Up United will highlight several women leaders during Women History Month at their Books and Breakfast Event. The amazing ladies featured are few of many radical women making history in the social justice space.
Guest teacher Alicia Jo Rabins introduces two new study guides from her "Girls in Trouble" curriculum. By exploring the stories of the Sotah, and the daughters of Tzelofchad, participants consider women's agency and power in the Torah.
Learn about the groundbreaking work of Jewish artist Barbara Kruger with 2014 Twersky Award Finalist Rabbi Mike Rothbaum of Oakland, CA. Examine student work and participate in some of the activities from his award-winning lesson entitled “Selling Soap, Smashing Sexism, Seeing Ourselves.” Learn how to create your own original lesson plan for submission to JWA’s 2015 Twersky Award.
In JWA's first-ever online “lunch and learn” program, we’ll examine the Book of Ruth through midrash and art—just in time for the holiday of Shavuot. We will be joined by musician, writer, and educator Alicia Jo Rabins, who has composed a collection of songs about the lives of Biblical women.
What do you do when you find an amazing letter or article that is too long or too dense for your students? Learn how to modify and excerpt documents, allowing students to access the important ideas within them without losing the voice or intention of the original composition. See examples of modified documents and discuss strategies for introducing them to your students.
What are the implications of the stories we tell about who we are as a Jewish community? How can Jewish history and primary sources provide new, exciting entry points for our students? Join staff from the Jewish Women's Archive to explore Jewish texts you’ve never heard of, participate in a lively discussion, and leave this session with concrete ways to teach about the power, diversity, and strength of the Jewish community to students of all ages.
Created for a webinar presented to the Jewish Educators Assembly.
Pluralism, Values, and Jewish Texts for the ISJL Education FellowsJewish Women's Archive
These are the slides from an online learning program prepared by Jewish Women's Archive for the Education Fellows at the Institute for Southern Jewish Life. Accompanying documents include:
Henrietta Szold's Letter to Haym Peretz: http://jwa.org/media/henrietta-szold-s-letter-to-haym-peretz-on-saying-kaddish-for-her-mother
Advertisement from "Mother Earth" Magazine, edited by Emma Goldman: http://jwa.org/media/advertisement-for-yom-kipur-picnic-organized-by-goldman-and-her-colleagues
Jews have a long-standing relationship with the land. While we have seen a resurgent interest in farming and food initiatives in specifically Jewish spaces, this phenomenon is part of a long continuum of Jewish agricultural work and land-based community building in the United States. This Powerpoint provides a cursory introduction to the little-known history of Jewish agricultural work in the US and to the experiences of Jews living off—and with—the land.
Learn about the history of Confirmation through incredible letters and photographs with 2014 Twersky Award Winner Rabbi Deborah Bodin Cohen of Potomac, MD. Participate in some of the activities from her award-winning lesson and learn about how to create your own original lesson plan for submission to JWA’s 2015 Twersky Award.
To view a recording of the program, additional resources, and a chat log, visit: https://jwa.org/teach/profdev/webinars/2015/twerskydeborah
Letters and articles can be difficult sources for younger students to parse. Yet, songs with melody and lyrics provide rich and multi-layered opportunities that meet students’ diverse learning needs while helping achieve your educational goals. Learn how to guide students through the exploration of musical elements and analysis of lyrics, and get some ideas for how to weave historical music into your lessons about history, holidays, and Jewish values.
Each one of us carries a unique story, a small thread of the large tapestry of history. In this session, you will get a crash-course in developing questions and conducting interviews with family and community members in order to unlock the past and enrich the Jewish story you are sharing with future generations.
In her 1994 autobiography, Barbie doll inventor Ruth Handler explained the toy's true purpose: "My whole philosophy of Barbie was that through the doll, the little girl could be anything she wanted to be. Barbie always represented the fact that a woman has choices." Discuss the intersection of gender and ritual in Judaism and explore the current state of gender in Jewish ritual practice through pictures, audio interviews, blog posts, and more.
Talking with older relatives and community members about their lives is a great way for students to build practical skills, develop new relationships, and unlock exciting historical stories. Learn how to lead an oral history project with your students, be introduced to JWA’s myriad oral history resources, and brainstorm with colleagues about how to bring inter-generational story sharing into your classroom or community.
A short presentation on what we have done online, at jwa.org and elsewhere, in FY '10. This covers none of our educational projects (the summer institute for educators, the presentation tool, the entire new "Living the Legacy curriculum," ....) because that was presented the day before by Judith and Emily.
To follow along with my notes, click the "notes" tab.
Francesca Gottschalk - How can education support child empowerment.pptxEduSkills OECD
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Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
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Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
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3. Sharing Stories
Inspiring Change
You Cannot Be What You Cannot See
Who is this person?
What did this person do?
Why did they do it?
Who am I?
What do I do / What do I
want to do?
Why do I do it?
4. Sharing Stories
Inspiring Change
Sharing Stories, Inspiring Change
POWER COUPLES
Power Couples showcases extraordinary Jewish women, matching an
early female trailblazer with a modern woman at the top of her game.
11. Sharing Stories
Inspiring Change
Broad public and political support
1963
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
12. Sharing Stories
Inspiring Change
Focus: Voting rights and political representation
1964
Mississippi Freedom Summer Project
13. Sharing Stories
Inspiring Change
Federal enforcement of racial equality
1964 & 1965
Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts Passed
14. Sharing Stories
Inspiring Change
Jewish participation in the Civil Rights Movement
The Holocaust
Jews felt like outsiders and
empathized with Southern
African Americans
Jewish values relating to
social justice
Escape/rebel against
upper/middle lass lifestyle
15. Sharing Stories
Inspiring Change
Focus on Voting Rights and Political
Representation
1964
Mississippi Freedom Summer Project
17. Sharing Stories
Inspiring Change
Mississippi Freedom Summer Project
Coalition of
Mississippi
Organizations
National
Student
Organization
18. Volunteer Profile
Jews made up an estimated half of all white
Freedom Summer volunteers; less than 1%
of the US population at that time
Northern volunteers were mostly white,
affluent; many college students. Southern
volunteers were mostly African American,
Christian, college students and working
class individuals from a diverse age range
Stopped for training in Oxford, OH before
heading to different communities in the
South
19. “My husband, Michael Schwerner, did not die in vain. If he
and Andrew Goodman had been Negroes, the world would
have taken little notice of their deaths. After all, the slaying
of a Negro in Mississippi is not news. It is only because my
husband and Andrew Goodman were white that the
national alarm has been sounded.”
Rita Schwerner
22. Sharing Stories
Inspiring Change
Another Perspective
• Polly Cowan was a mother of
two Freedom Summer
volunteers (Paul and Geoff)
• Volunteered with the National
Council of Negro Women
• Worked closely with the NCNW
Director, Dr. Dorothy Height
23. Sharing Stories
Inspiring Change
Wednesdays In Mississippi (WIMS)
Sharing
information
with home
community
Building
bridges in
Southern
communities
Social
Change
24. Sharing Stories
Inspiring Change
WIMS Inputs and Outcomes
Relationships
Leadership
Political and
economic
power
Rights for
women and
children
Educational
and health
access
25. Sharing Stories
Inspiring Change
Dorothy Height Explains WIMS
• Why were women participating in Wednesdays
in Mississippi?
• What strategies were the organizers using to
make change?
27. Sharing Stories
Inspiring Change
Interfaith Collaboration by Women’s
Groups
National
Council of
Negro Women
(NCNW)
National
Council of
Jewish
Women
(NCJW)
National
Council of
Catholic
Women
(NCCW)
Church
Women
United
Young
Women’s
Christian
Association
(YWCA)
League of
Women
Voters
American
Association of
University
Women
Wednesdays
in
Mississippi
30. Sharing Stories
Inspiring Change
How WIMS worked
Before the Trip During the Trip
Meet with local
hostess, gather
impressions
Visit Freedom
Summer Projects
Share knowledge
about Civil Rights
efforts with hostess
appeal to her (and
her network) to take
action
Review study kit
and suggested
reading (before
trip)
Travel to Jackson,
Mississippi
Meet-up with
WIMS staff and
community
members
After the Trip
Write up debrief
including names of
potential allies or
opponents (don’t
take notes in front of
the hostess!)
Reach out to home
community
33. Sharing Stories
Inspiring Change
Two Activists Share Their Stories
• Dr. Josie Johnson and
Maxine Nathanson
• From Minnesota
• Went south to Mississippi
in a team of four
• View the whole interview:
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=Qpmhb5AiDKI
34.
35. Sharing Stories
Inspiring Change
What can we learn from WIMS?
• How did these women make change in their communities and in
the Civil Rights Movement?
• What is the significance of women working together in this story?
• What, if anything, do you think was revolutionary and/or
dangerous about these women?
• What relevance does this story have to today?
• What aspects of the Wednesdays in Mississippi model of activism
seem most relevant today? What aspects seem less relevant?
From the Atlanta meeting in 1964. Clarie Harvey was the spokeswoman for the Jackson women. More here: http://www.history.uh.edu/cph/WIMS/creation/AtlantaMeeting_March-1964.html
Jewish educators are essential partners.
Educators are catalysts for bringing the rich and inclusive history of Jews in America to students of all ages and genders.
Together we inspire (young) Jews to learn about who they want to be and what impact they want to have on the world.
Left: Dorthea Lange, Theatre in Leland, Mississippi, June 1937. Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection, Library of Congress. Retrieved from: http://loc.gov/pictures/resource/fsa.8b32104/.
Right: Arthur S. Siegel, photograph of sign reading "We want white tenants in our white community," Detroit, Michigan, February 1942. Retrieved from: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:We_want_white_tenants.jpg.
Jews went south for a variety of reasons, some of which were the Holocaust, Jewish social justice values, empathy with the experience of “the outsider,” to escape or rebel against upper middle class lifestyle.
In Mississippi in 1964, 42% of the state's population was African American, but less than 5% could register to vote due to literacy tests, poll taxes, and physical intimidation. The racial caste system was held firmly in place by a tradition of violence against African Americans.
If you could make change in Mississippi, other states would follow.
In 1964, The Council of Federated Organizations (COFO, which included National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP),Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), with national support from SNCC, launched the Freedom Summer project, a new campaign that built on and expanded the community organizing that both orgs had been doing for a few years in the South
Map: http://www.keepinghistoryalive.com/media/photo-fs-largemap.jpg
1,000 Northern students, mostly white and affluent. Half of whites were Jews though Jews only made up less than 1% of the population.
Worked on voter registration (efforts that had been led by SNCC starting in 1962, before that by CORE, NAACP, and regional rights groups), the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, and Freedom Schools.
The project created more than 40 freedom schools (some of which became enduring, community-based institutions) that taught reading, math, politics, and African American history to black children. Over the course of the summer about 60,000 African Americans signed up to join the MFDP, and the newly-formed party sent a slate of delegates to the August 1964 Democratic National Convention, demanding to be seated in place of the all-white regular state delegation.
Photos, clockwise from top left:
http://digilib.usm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/manu/id/5748
http://digilib.usm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/manu/id/207
http://www.crmvet.org/images/imgfs.htm
http://digilib.usm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/manu/id/216
In 1964, 42% of the state's population was African American, but less than 5% could register to vote due to literacy tests, poll taxes, and physical intimidation. The racial caste system was held firmly in place by a tradition of violence against African Americans.
Most infamous are the murders of James Chaney (21 years old), an African American from Mississippi, and Michael Schwerner (24) and Andrew Goodman (20), both Jews from New York.
Went missing on June 21, 1964
Rita Schwerner worked tirelessly for justice in the case—Seven men were found guilty but served relatively short sentences. Edgar Ray Killen, who had planned and directed the murders, was acquitted in the 1967 case but was finally convicted of three counts of manslaughter in 2005.
6 civil rights workers were murdered and volunteers also experienced 1,000 arrests, 80 beatings, 35 shooting incidents, and 30 bombings of homes, churches, and schools.
Volunteers for Freedom Summer knew that this was a risk they were taking. Many accepted it knowing that southern blacks were facing the same risks every day.
Part of the tactic was to get media attention from white participation
Like many Jewish activists, Heather came to activism through the collective Jewish experience of persecution during the holocaust and a profound sense that Jews had to keep similar injustices from happening to others.
Spurred into justice activism by a post-HS trip to Yad V’shem
Left college to volunteer for freedom summer
Has continued this work through her life—working on the behalf of women and African Americans
One day in 1963, Prathia Hall, a SNCC Volunteer from Mississippi, called Height and Cowan and asked them to come down and see how girls and women in participating in the civil rights movement were being treated.
This inspired the idea to create a program drawing specifically from women and women leaders within Northern and Southern communities who had the power to create change.
Polly Cowan and Dr. Dorothy height
Women on the teams were in leadership of aforementioned organizations as well as “additional notables selected from the fields of law, medicine, education, community service, and arts and letters.”
8 teams of women, 4-6 per team during july and august
Ny, Boston, Washington, D.C., St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Chicago
Leadership of organizations as well as “additional notables selected from the fields of law, medicine, education, community service, and arts and letters.”
3 women coordinated, living in Jackson permanently
Study kits with “basic facts on Mississippi, the city they will visit, the background of the local civil rights projects, plus selected bibliogaphy (sic) on Southern attitudes, etc.”
Visit with local women to gather impressions of the local situation from their POV
Visit voter registration centers, freedom schools, and other student CR projects.
Meet again with local women and share what they learned on the visits to the projects. Bring info about police brutality and mal-treatment to the perspectives of local women and ask them to take action (human decency)
Participants covered their own expenses
From the Atlanta meeting in 1964. Clarie Harvey was the spokeswoman for the Jackson women. More here: http://www.history.uh.edu/cph/WIMS/creation/AtlantaMeeting_March-1964.html