Combined with interpretive headnotes and discussion questions, the layered approaches of the contributors deliver an unusually complex and rich portrait of the American past while also offering readers glimpses of the many dimensions of the historians' craft. The sources assembled capture the voices of Americans of varied age, race, ethnicity, and gender, historical actors who represent not only diverse subject positions but also a wide variety of belief systems and varied circumstances. Jennifer Jensen Wallach and John A.A collection of interpreted primary source documents designed to complement textbooks used in US history survey courses, Containing Multitudes: A Documentary Reader of the American Past is a collaboration with the Department of History at the University of North Texas that supports the learning experience by providing a curated selection of letters, literature, journalism, art, and other documents, with analysis and instructional support from the university's teacher-historians.This two-volume work includes nearly two hundred primary documents and images that narrate many aspects of United States history from the period before European contact and colonization through the twenty-first century. In 1970, Long brought Black folklore and music to the Smithsonian, where he became one of the most celebrated folklorist and festival organizers. Before college, Long spent two years in the Air Force in Korea and Japan, where he became aware of “folklore.” His passion for oral history was so strong that when he got married in 1959, he chose a tape recorder rather than a wedding ring. Long remembered these lesson as he developed his own philosophy of social justice well before he even reached SNCC. His father was the Presiding Elder at a Durham AME Zion church who regularly preached to his congregation the ideals of Pan-Africanism and Black self-sufficiency. Long developed a philosophy of justice at an early age. Just months after, he became a SNCC organizer. When Long stood trial for his arrest in June 1963 in Little Rock Court, he wore a long black armband to mourn the death of Mississippi NAACP leader Medgar Evers who had been murdered in his driveway the day before. Deadly Trail: Matt Jensen: The Last Mountain Man (Wheeler Western)J.

Long quickly rose as a leader in the Arkansas SNCC-affiliate when they staged sit-ins at Woolworth’s and Walgreen’s lunch counters. Harrison, Jennifer Gets A New SmellCarla ONeill. He attended Philander Smith College in Little Rock in 1962.

Long was raised in Durham, North Carolina and relocated to Selma, Alabama to replace SNCC’s Bernard and Colia Lafayette as project director in 1963. He was passionate about desegregation in Arkansas when he chose to join the Downtown Negotiating Committee as a representative. Worth Long was a leader among Philander Smith College students. Powerlessness is basically having no option.” -Worth Long My role as an organizer – community and cultural – is basically to give people an option.

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