Use the PDF linked below to answer questions 1 – 6 on the Teams assignment.
Author: M. Gaddy
Civil Rights Act of 1964 (6.10.20)
6.10 Action Items
Read this article on The Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Answer the questions in the online form.
The Little Rock Nine (6.3 – 6.9)
Following the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown vs. the Board of Education, black students attempted to desegregate schools in the south to very limited success. Central High in Little Rock, AR became emblematic of the struggle when President Eisenhower used National Guard and Federal troops to protect the black students’ efforts to attend the school.
6.3 Action Items:
Read the summary article from Khan Academy
Answer the content and reflection questions
6.4 – 6.9 (4 class days) Action Items:
The Ernest Green Story is a feature film that shows us the story of the nine black students who integrated Central High School in Little Rock, AR in 1957. The desegregation effort becomes an epic battle of will between the president, the governor, the white population, and the black students.
Watch The Ernest Green Story on Youtube
Answer the reflection questions
Are You Paying Attention?
This past week will long be remembered in American history. It is too soon to tell how this will end and how it will change us, but it very assuredly will have a major impact on this country.
Action Items for 6.1 and 6.2:
Look through the front pages of the last week’s worth of the NYT front pages (seen below and chosen for you to see the scale and scope of the events), read stories from other outlets of your choosing, and check out the Spokesman Review to see what happened here on Sunday.
Reflect here on what you see happening, connections you see to the past, and make a prediction for what you see happening in the future.
Civil Rights Leaders (5.20- 5.29.20)
The Civil Rights era was a violent and dangerous time for many of the activists. As they fought for equality, their homes were burned, their churches were bombed, and they were shot and beaten. Yet, they persisted in their battle to be treated full American citizens. Take this opportunity to learn about an individual involved in the movement: how they contributed, what they sacrificed, and what they accomplished.
Part One
Action Item for 5.20:
Open and read Martin Luther King Bio example. Answer the following questions in the Google form.
Part Two
Action Item for 5.21 – 5.29 (5 class periods): (there is no school Friday and Monday due to Memorial Day)
Choose a leader from the list below, and create your own Civil Rights Activist bio using MLK’s as an example – you cannot do your bio on MLK.
Your bio should include:
- Name
- Biographical information – early life, education, and anything that gives contact to their activism
- Civil Rights activities – what did they do, what was the impact, what was done to them?
- Legacy – how did their actions affect their society, are there physical remembrances of this person, how do we remember them, etc.
- Photos
Civil Rights Activist Rubric – Please don’t plagiarize! Submit your document to Teams by May 29.
Leaders to choose from:
| Malcolm X |
| Earl Warren |
| Hosea Williams |
| Whitney Young Jr. |
| Maria L. de Hernandez |
| Ella Baker |
| Harvey Milk |
| Myles Horton |
| Muhammad Ali |
| Willa Brown |
| Walter P. Reuther |
| Elizabeth Peratrovich |
| Daisy Bates |
| Josephine Baker |
| Mamie Till |
| Humberto Corona |
| Robert Kennedy |
| Rafer Johnson |
| Lyndon B. Johnson |
| Fred Shuttlesworth |
| Medgar Evers |
| Cesar Chavez |
| Jesse Jackson |
| Stokey Charmichael |
| Branch Rickey |
| Ruby Bridges |
| James Zwerg |
| John F. Kennedy |
| James Meredith |
| Rosa Parks |
The Murderers of Emmett Till Confess (5.18.20)
Shortly after their acquittal, the two men accursed of murdering Emmett Till confessed to the killings and offered full details to a reporter. The following is the text of that article. The accused did not dispute the accuracy of the article, nor were they retried.
Action Items 5.18-5.19.20
Read the original magazine article
Answer the reflection questions
The Shocking Story of Approved Killing in Mississippi
By William Bradford Huie (1955)
Editors Note: In the long history of man’s inhumanity to man, racial conflict has produced some of the most horrible examples of brutality. The recent slaying of Emmett Till in Mississippi is a case in point. The editors of Look are convinced that they are presenting here, for the first time, the real story of that killing — the story no jury heard and no newspaper reader saw.
Disclosed here is the true account of the slaying in Mississippi of a Negro youth named Emmett Till.
Eyes on the Prize 1954-1956 (5.13 – 5.15.20)
Eyes on the Prize, a documentary series, details America’s long struggle over Civil Rights. Our first episode tells us the story of the murder of a 14-year-old black boy who had the audacity to speak to a white woman in rural Mississippi in the summer of 1955 and of a young African American seamstress who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man. These seminal events, among many others, launched the Civil Rights Movement into national prominence.
5.13 – 5.15 Action Items:
Watch the documentary below, and answer the reflection questions here.
This episode addresses the following events:
1954: May 17 In Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court declares that segregated schools are inherently unequal and thus unconstitutional
1955: Aug. 28 Emmett Till, a black boy from Chicago visiting his uncle Moses Wright in Mississippi, is murdered for inappropriately addressing a white woman
Sep. 23 Two white men are tried in the murder of Emmett Till but are quickly acquitted
Dec. 1 Rosa Parks is arrested in Montgomery, Alabama for refusing to relinquish her seat in the front of the bus to a white person
Dec. 5 King leads the blacks of Montgomery in a rally to boycott city buses. In response to the blacks’ bus boycott, many whites join White Citizens’ Councils to uphold segregation and white control of the region
1956: Nov. 13 The Supreme Court rules that segregation on buses in Montgomery is against the law
Dec. 21 The Supreme Court rules that segregation on Montgomery buses is illegal and the boycott ends
Civil Rights Movies
Extra Credit opportunity. Watch a movie, and write a paragraph here demonstrating what you learned and what connections you can make to historical events.
Week of May 6 – May 12
End of the Cold War (5.6 + 5.7.20) – due May 12
America’s Time: 1965-1970 Unpinned (5.8 + 5.11.20) – due May 12
What Did Jim Crow Really Look Like? (5.12 + 5.13.20) – note that this assignment spills into the next week. Due May 13.
Extra Credit opportunity: Cold War Movies
American Studies 