WEDNESDAY

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


CW:
guided notesheet
1964:
Freedom Summer Project in Mississippi
June 22, 1964 disappearance/murder of Goodman, Schwerner, and Chaney
(clip from 1960s DVD--51:18--)
 video clips from Freedom Summer DVD 

1. discuss VEP from Civil Rights documents 
2. MS prepares for invasion/training of FS volunteers (31:06--40:42)
July 2, 1964--Civil Rights Act signed into law--view document3. volunteers leave for MS and start their work--FS DVD
(46:48--56:00)
Aug--three bodies found--clips from History Channel DVD)
video clip from FS DVD--MFDP
------------------------------------
Jan--Mar 1965: Selma Campaign for voting rights begins 
EXAMPLES OF LITERACY TESTS

clips from EOTP
Feb. 18--Jimmy Lee Jackson beaten and shot--dies eight days later
March 7, 1965--Bloody Sunday (EOTP)
clip from "Selma"
March 9, 1965--Turnaround Tuesday (30:00--39-ish; from EOTP)
--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 --DVD
March to Montgomery---March 21, 1965--DVD

HW:
review notes
Read pp. 923-27