THURSDAY--MAY 12

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


CW:
SCLC created in 1957
SNCC created in April 1960--video clip from Many Rivers
1962--63
1962: Albany, GA campaign and its failures (short video overview from EOTP)
1963:
April--May
Project C/Children's Campaign in Birmingham (NOTES)
clips from EOTP
Letter from the Birmingham Jail--from packet
June 
Medgar Evers in Jackson, MS--clip from 1960s DVD
Governor Wallace's stand at the schoolhouse door in Alabama--1960s DVD
Medgar Evers murdered-June 11, 1963
JFK's speech on civil rights--1960s DVD (all below on 1960s DVD)
Aug. 28, 1963--March on Washington--"I Have a Dream..."
Sept. 15, 1963--16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham
clip from Selma
Civil Rights Act of 1964 becomes law (handout)  

HW:
Freedom Summer reading-----------------------------------------------------
IB HOTA
EQ:
What efforts did President Eisenhower make to contain the spread of global communism (1952-60)?
How did the fear of nuclear attack impact American life in the 1950s?

CW:
notes: Cold War years under Eisenhower (1952-60)
Eisenhower and the Cold War ppt
Iran: 1953;
Guatemala--1954--stop at 5:09
Sputnik I (show image from Cold War ppt)
Sputnik II
Eisenhower's New Look defense plan--1957
Eisenhower Doctrine
MAD; fear of the bomb
Greenbrier Hotel in West Virginia (first 10 minutes)
Family bomb shelters--33:30
 video clips from Atomic Cafe
MAD; fear of the bomb
Nuke Map
video clip: President Eisenhower warns against the military-industrial complex
US military spending since the Cold War 
new nuclear arms race

HW:
STUDY FOR UNIT 7 EXAM