LESSON
History Detective Evidence Packets
This text is provided as background information for the lesson
History Detectives: Voting Rights in Mississippi, 1964.
Here are the materials to download for students for their history detective evidence packets. Depending on the number of students you have, you may need to create duplicate packets so that your students can work in groups of three to five.
Each packet has the same map and overall situation document. The remainder of the documents are particular to the location.
To enhance the experience for the students, it would be ideal to hand them their respective materials in folders marked “Evidence Packets, Top Secret”.
Evidence Packet: Laurel, Mississippi
Photo of Gwen Robinson, SNCC project director in Laurel, MS
Mississippi Project Director_Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons, excerpt from Holsaert, et. al., Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010)
SNCC WATS Line Digest, July 19-20, 1964
Mississippi Sovereignty Commission File SCR ID # 99-28-0-42-4-1-1
Evidence Packet: Canton, Mississippi
SNCC Wats Line Digest, July 19-20, 1964
Evidence Packet: Hattiesburg, Mississippi
Volunteer Jacob Blum hangs a sign on the front of Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, prior to a mass meeting during Freedom Summer, 1964.
Evidence Packet: McComb, Mississippi
Events of 1964 in McComb, Mississippi and surrounding area
Civil Rights Investigators Activity, 1964 in Amite county and Other Adjoining Counties Sovereignty Commission File SCR ID # 2-60-0-43-2-1-1