THURSDAY--MAY 14

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

CW:
1964:
LBJ signs the Civil Rights Act
Freedom Summer--Mississippi
discuss VEP from Civil Rights documents 
video clips:
1964:
LBJ signs the Civil Rights Act
Freedom Summer--Mississippi
discuss VEP from Civil Rights documents 
clips from 1960s DVD
disappearance/murder of Goodman, Schwerner, and Chaney
MS prepares for invasion
clip from Freedom Summer DVD--MFDP--1:23:--1:31:00/:136:00
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1965: Selma Campaign for voting rights 
clips from 1960s DVD
Feb. 18--Jimmy Lee Jackson shot and beaten
scene from "Selma"
March 7, 1965--Bloody Sunday--DVD
clip from "Selma"
March 9, 1965--Turnaround Tuesday--clip from Selma
James Reeb's vicious attack
March 13--Gov. Wallace and President Johnson meet in the Oval Office for three hours
clip from Selma
March 15 1965--President Johnson calls for a Voting Rights Act --1960s DVD
March to Montgomery---March 25, 1965--1960s DVD

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

CW:
Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam (see Malcolm X handout in civil rights packet)
clips from EOTP
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August 1965: 
Watts Riots in LA
Dick Gregory on the Watts Riots
late 1965--Dr. King goes to Chicago--from 1960s DVD
1966-67
reading: What We Want
video clip: Black Power/Stokely Carmichael (from Many Rivers)
1967:
urban unrest in Newark, NJ--1960s DVD
1968: rise of the Black Panther Party--Oakland, CA (clip from Eyes on the Prize)
April 4, 1968--Dr. King murdered in Memphis, TN--1960s DVD

HW:
review notes