WEDNESDAY--MAY 11

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

CW:
Unit 6 study guide
1960-61: black and white college students take action
lunch counter sit-in movement (Feb. 1960-July 1960)
Greensboro 4
video clips from The 1960s on lunch counter sit-ins in Nashville, TN
May--Nov 1961
Freedom Rides overview
Freedom Rides--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)

HW:
finish Civil Rights reading
REVIEW NOTES
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IB HOTA
EQ:
What was American social and economic life like in the 1950s?

CW:
1950s: A Transformative Decade in American Life
1950s ppt
The Founder trailer--Ray Kroc
dating do's and don't's
handout: How to be a good wife
growth of suburbia
Baby Boom
conformity
Rock and Roll comes of age in the 1950s
conspicuous consumption

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