Emilye Crosby

Ph.D., Indiana University

B.A., Macalester College

Civil Rights History from the Ground Up: Local Struggles, a National Movement, ed., University of Georgia press, 2011.

A Little Taste of Freedom: The Black Freedom Struggle in Claiborne County, Mississippi, University of North Carolina press, 2005.

Introduction: "The Politics of Writing and Teaching Movement History."

"'It wasn't the Wild West': Keeping Local Studies in Self-Defense Historiography."

Conclusion: "Doesn't everybody want to grow up to be Ella Baker? Teaching Movement History."

"Making Eyes on the Prize: An Interview with Filmmaker and SNCC Staffer Judy Richardson."

"That Movement Responsibility: An Interview with Judy Richardson on Movement Values and Movement History."

National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship for College Teachers, 2015-16.

National Humanities Center, Fellow, 2014-15.

John Hope Franklin Center for African and African American History and Culture, Travel Grant, Duke University, 2014-15.

Visiting Scholar, James Weldon Johnson Institute, Emory University, 2011-12.

National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship for College Teachers, 2000-2001.

Dr. Nuala McGann Drescher Affirmative Action Leave, New York State/UUP, 1998-99.

Carter G. Woodson Research Fellowship, University of Virginia, Aug. 1993-Aug. 1995 (dissertation fellowship).

NCAA Basketball Post-graduate Scholarship, Alternate, 1987.

https://www.geneseo.edu/abs/civil-rights-movement-speakers

"Remembering Julian Bond" Blog for Organization of American Historians, August 15, 2016, Process--A Blog for American History. http://www.processhistory.org/remembering-julian-bond/

"A Documents-Based Lesson on the Voting Rights Act: A Case Study of SNCC's work in Lowndes County and the Emergence of Black Power," Oct. 2015, Teaching for Change. http://civilrightsteaching.org/resource/vra-lesson/

"The Voting Rights Act: 10 Things You Should Know," with Judy Richardson, Teaching for Change and Zinn Education Project, Aug. 2015. http://zinnedproject.org/materials/the-voting-rights-act-ten-things-you…

"The Voting Rights Act: Beyond the Headlines" with Judy Richardson (a longer, 12-point version of the "VRA: 10 Things") Aug. 2015.

"The Selma Voting Rights Struggle: 15 Key Points from Bottom-Up History and Why It Matters Today," Teaching for Change and Zinn Education Project, Jan. 2015. https://www.teachingforchange.org/selma-bottom-up-history [This piece and the one below were reprinted widely.]

"Ten Things You Should Know About Selma Before You See the Film" (shorter version of "15 Facts", published on Common Dreams and Teaching for Change, and re-posted in many places), Jan. 2015. (http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/01/04/ten-things-you-should-know…)

https://snccdigital.org/

For information about SNCC and Grassroots Organizing NEH grant, including livestream events, see: https://sncclegacyproject.org/sncc-grassroots-organizing/.

"Not that Kind of Tired: Rosa Parks and Organizing the Montgomery Bus Boycott," in Understanding and Teaching the Civil Rights Movement ed. Hasan Kwame Jeffries (University of Wisconsin Press, forthcoming).

"Rethinking and Un-teaching Entrenched Movement Narratives: A Virtual Roundtable," with Frazier, Hogan, Jeffries, and Spencer, for a special issue "Expanding the Narrative: Exploring New Aspects of the Civil Rights Movement Fifty Years Later," ed. by Simmons and Mingo in Fire! The Multimedia Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 2.2. 2013 (released 2015), 78-108. DOI: 10.5323 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5323/fire.2.2.0078

"'Looking the Devil in the Eye': Race Relations and the Civil Rights Movement in Claiborne County History and Memory," in The Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi, ed. by Ted Ownby (University Press of Mississippi, 2013), 266-99.

"'I Just Had a Fire!': An Interview with Dorie Ann Ladner," Southern Quarterly, 52, no. 1 (Fall 2014), 79-110.

"'The lady folk is a doer': Women and the Civil Rights Movement in Claiborne County, Mississippi," in Mississippi Women: Their Histories, Their Lives, vol. 2, ed. by Martha Swain, Elizabeth Payne, and Marjorie Spruill (University of Georgia press, 2010). Slightly revised version of a chapter originally published in: Stepping Forward: Black Women in Africa and the Americas.

"White Privilege, Black Burden: Lost Opportunities and Deceptive Narratives in School Desegregation in Claiborne County, Mississippi," Oral History Review, 29, no. 2 (Summer/ Fall 2012): 258-85. (doi:10.1093).

"'God's Appointed Savior': Charles Evers's Use of Local Movements for National Prestige," in Groundwork: The Local Black Freedom Movement in America, eds. Komozi Woodard and Jeanne Theoharis (New York: New York University press, 2005), 165-92.

"'You Got a Right To Defend Yourself': Self-Defense and the Claiborne County, Mississippi Movement," International Journal of Africana Studies, vol. 9 (no. 1, Spring 2004), 133-63.

"'This nonviolent stuff ain't no good. It'll get ya killed.': Teaching about Self-Defense in the African-American Freedom Struggle," in Teaching the Civil Rights Movement eds. Julie Buckner, Houston Roberson, Rhonda Y. Williams, Susan Holt (New York: Routledge, 2002), 159-73.