FRIDAY

US History
EQ:
To what extent was the civil rights movement effective in securing equal rights for African Americans?

CW:
1961-64
 Freedom Riders--1961(watch the film here)
(showing first 30-40 minutes; Fisk students enter the rides: 46:12--54:41; Montgomery Riot: 1:04:00--1:12:12; Parchman, MS: 1:30:00---1:52:00)
Project C/Children's Campaign in Birmingham--spring of 1963
Letter from the Birmingham Jail
Medgar Evers murdered-June 11, 1963
video clip from JFK documentary--speech calling for a civil rights bill
Aug. 28, 1963--March on Washington--"I Have a Dream..."
Sept. 15, 1963--16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham
Civil Rights Act of 1964 becomes law (handout)
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Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam

HW:
finish civil rights reading
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Honors US History
EQ:
What factors/events led to an Allied victory in WWII?

CW:
Operation Olympic
Ketsu Go! (video clip)
Manhattan Project locations
Trinity Test--July 16, 1945
Potsdam Conference
USS Indianapolis
Aug. 6, 1945--Hiroshima bombed; Aug. 9, 1945--Nagasaki bombed
Aug. 15, 1945--V-J DAY
UN handout
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Cold War begins
map of Germany post-WWII
containment handout
Truman Doctrine (1947)
National Security Act--1947
video clip from Truman DVD--20-ish--23-ish minutes
video clips: Marshall Plan (1948-52)
first five minutes and then part on Greece at 22:00-ish
Berlin Airlift (1948-49)
creation of NATO (1949)

HW:
Text pp. 791-94
start reading at NSC-68 and stop at Eisenhauser subheading
THE READING FOCUSES ON THE KOREAN WAR!!