MONDAY--MAY 11

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

CW:
preview Unit 8--FINAL UNIT!!
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origins of the civil rights movement:
Reconstruction
W.E.B. DuBois
UNIA
the "Double V"
video clip: the NAACP builds its case against school segregation and the Plessy decision--Many Rivers clip
doll test
1954: the Brown decision
doll test 
school inequality today
1955:
the murder of Emmett Till

HW:
Civil rights reading:
section on lunch counter sit-ins
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US History
EQ:
To what extent was the civil rights movement effective in securing equal rights for African Americans?


CW:
1960-61
lunch counter sit-in movement (Feb. 1960-July 1960)
Greensboro 4
video clips from The 1960s on lunch counter sit-ins
 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)

MAY DELAY UNTIL TUESDAY
Project C/Children's Campaign in Birmingham--April-May 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)

HW:
finish Civil Rights reading