TUESDAY

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


CW:
finish video clips/info on Freedom Summer--1964:
video clip: MFDP goes to Washington, D.C.--Fannie Lou Hamer's testimony interrupted by President Johnson (from Freedom Summer DVD)
MFDP handout
Nov. 1964--MLK received a poison pen letter from the FBI--handout
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1965-67
video clips from Eyes on the Prize:
Selma campaign
Voting Rights Act of 1965
video clip: voter ID laws today
1965--Dick Gregory talks about the Watts riots
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1966-67
video clip from Many Rivers--Black power
"Black power" reading from Stokely Carmichael
Black power salute--1968 Summer Olympics-Mexico City
reading on urban unrest
video clip: 1967 Newark Riots

HW:
review notes
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Honors US History
EQ:
How did the Cold War impact American life in the 1940s and 1950s?

CW:
Who's the Commie?
notes: The Great Fear
GREAT LINK FOR COLD WAR AT HOME
1947-48:
Truman established Loyalty Review Boards
HUAC investigates Hollywood
Red Channels
video clip: HUAC and the Hollywood Ten
Alger Hiss case
video clip: He May be a Communist
rise and fall of Senator Joseph McCarthy (1946-57)
handout: McCarthy's speech in Wheeling, WV
Truman's response to McCarthy's telegram
video clip from Cold War from above on McCarthy and the US Army hearings
video clip: Edward R. Murrow's commentary on McCarthy

HW:
Text pp. 807-12