American Equality
Historical Question for Unit 8 - American Equality
1. Evaluate the Civil Rights Movement, focusing on the impact of key events that had the greatest impact on gaining equality in this country.
Vocabulary
Students are to write the definition for the following
1. Discrimination
2. Segregation
3. Civil Rights Act of 1964
4. Pearsall Plan
5. Sit-ins
6. Freedom Summer
7. Busing
8. Racism
9. Voting Rights Act
Origins of the Civil Rights Movement Notes
1. Evaluate the Civil Rights Movement, focusing on the impact of key events that had the greatest impact on gaining equality in this country.
Vocabulary
Students are to write the definition for the following
1. Discrimination
2. Segregation
3. Civil Rights Act of 1964
4. Pearsall Plan
5. Sit-ins
6. Freedom Summer
7. Busing
8. Racism
9. Voting Rights Act
Origins of the Civil Rights Movement Notes
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Watch this episode of Eyes on the Prize and take ten notes about the struggle to integrate schools in the South. Below is another video called "Klansville, USA", discussing the rise of the KKK in N.C. Due to the Civil Rights Movement. Take 10 notes on the rise of the Ku Klux Klan in N.C.
Civil Rights Project
In this project, students will examine the approach of how two civil rights leaders wanted to achieve change in race relations in this country. Students will examine two primary sources about these approaches, and answer some critical thinking questions. Then, students will learn about four events of the civil rights movement, and then apply the philosophy of both leaders.
In this project, students will examine the approach of how two civil rights leaders wanted to achieve change in race relations in this country. Students will examine two primary sources about these approaches, and answer some critical thinking questions. Then, students will learn about four events of the civil rights movement, and then apply the philosophy of both leaders.
Read the two documents below and answer the questions, then decide which course of action you agree with the most and why. Then, look at the list of events from the Civil Rights Movement and write a short summary paragraph about the event, and write what each leader would do in the situation listed?
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What would each leader do?
1. The murder of Emmett Till
2. The arrest of a women that violates the bus segregation laws in Montgomery, Alabama (The arrest of Rosa Parks)
3. The Governor of Arkansas using the National Guard to deny 9 African American students access to their new integrated high school (The Little Rock 9)
4. 3 Civil rights workers are murdered in Mississippi during a voter registration drive during Freedom Summer (Freedom Summer)
1. The murder of Emmett Till
2. The arrest of a women that violates the bus segregation laws in Montgomery, Alabama (The arrest of Rosa Parks)
3. The Governor of Arkansas using the National Guard to deny 9 African American students access to their new integrated high school (The Little Rock 9)
4. 3 Civil rights workers are murdered in Mississippi during a voter registration drive during Freedom Summer (Freedom Summer)