MONDAY--MAY 9

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

CW:
origins of the civil rights movement:
Reconstruction
Jim Crow laws; Era of Terror; convict leasing
de jure segregation vs. de facto segregation
early 20th century: W.E.B. DuBois; Booker T. Washington
1920s: Marcus Garvey; UNIA
1930s: HOLC--1930s--limitations on development of black wealth
WWII--the "Double V"
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1940s and 1950s: fight against racial segregation in public education
video clip: the NAACP builds its case against school segregation and the Plessy decision--Many Rivers clip
doll test
documents:
the Brown decision (1954)
Southern Manifesto (1956)   
White Citizens Councils fight against integration--commie plot
1955: catalyst for the movement
the murder of Emmett Till

HW:
Civil Rights reading:
READ the sections on lunch counter sit-ins and the Freedom Ride
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IB HOTA
EQ:
How did anti-communist hysteria impact life the United States during the 1940s and 1950s?

CW:
Video clip: How to detect a communist
WHO'S THE COMMIE? 
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notes: The Great Fear/Second Red Scare
Truman establishes LRBs
HUAC
GREAT LINK FOR COLD WAR AT HOME INFO
McCarthyism
McCarthy's speech in Wheeling, WV--1950
(first 18 minutes; then pick up at 22:30 for McCarthy's downfall)
rise of Senator Joseph McCarthy (elected in 1946; re-elected in 1952)
The Rosenbergs
Truman's response to McCarthy telegram 
Declaration of Conscience  
video clips from Atomic Cafe

HW:
Read pp. 794-97*
*Eisenhower/New Look to the Cold War at Home