MONDAY

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
WWII--the "Double V"
1948: To Secure These Rights-President Truman's Committee on Civil Rights
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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
Tale of Two Schools: school inequality today 
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