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Civil Rights Timeline of Events: http://www.history.com/topics/black-history-milestones
1942: The Pittsburgh Courier Double V Campaign http://www.pbs.org/blackpress/news_bios/courier.html
http://www.eric.ed.gov/PDFS/ED205956.pdf From 1942-1943 the Pittsburgh published 970 Double V items: 469 articles (48.35%), 380 photographs (39.18%) and 121 drawings (12.47%). See page 17-19 of the .pdf file for 3 graphs to interpret. Read the letter on p3 of the .pdf file to see the letter that sparked the campaign.
1954: Brown v. The Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
1955: The Murder of Emmett Till
1955: Claudette Colvin, Rosa Parks, The Southern Christian Leadership Conference, MLK, and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
1957: The Little Rock Nine: Central High School is integrated
1960: The Sit-in movement; Greensboro, NC, & Nashville, TN, and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
1961: Freedom Rides; The Congress of Racial Equality, Attorney General Robert Kennedy
1962: James Meredith, Governor George Wallace & The Integration of the University of Mississippi
The Albany Movement,
1963: Birmingham, Governor Wallace, Eugene "Bull" Connor, Letter from a Birmingham Jail, March on Washington, "I Have a Dream", Birmingham church bombed, Civil Rights Act of 1964
1964: Freedom Summer and the "Mississippi Burning" murders
Three volunteers—Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman, both white New Yorkers, and James Chaney, a black Mississippian—disappeared on their way back from investigating the burning of an African–American church by the Ku Klux Klan. After a massive FBI investigation (code–named "Mississippi Burning") their bodies were discovered on August 4 buried in an earthen dam near Philadelphia, in Neshoba County, Mississippi.
2/21/1965: Malcolm X assassinated
1965: Selma to Montgomery march (3/7 and 3/9) & The Voting Rights Act of 1965
The Rise of Black Power
1967: Loving v. Virginia
1968: The Fair Housing Act
4/4/1968: MLK assassinated
1972: Shirley Chisholm runs for president
1978: The Bakke decision - both against and for "affirmative action"
1984: Jesse Jackson runs for president, The Rainbow Coalition
1992: South Central Riots
1995: Million Man March
2001: Colin Powell becomes secretary of state
2008: Barack Obama becomes 44th president
"Martin Luther King, Jr - The Beloved Community"
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=731
EQ1: Would it be better to obey the laws of the land or to resist them peacefully?
O1: Explain Martin Luther King, Jr.'s concept of nonviolent resistance and the role of civil disobedience within it.
OArticulate the primary concerns of the Alabama clergymen who rejected King's intervention in Birmingham's racial conflicts in 1963.
ODescribe how King defended his nonviolent campaign to the Alabama clergymen.
OExplain why the president of the National Baptist Convention, Joseph H. Jackson, thought King's protest methods were unproductive and un-American, and articulate the alternatives he recommended to secure civil rights for black Americans.
OEvaluate the merits of the argument on both sides of the debate and decide which view could best secure civil rights for black Americans.
"Malcolm X - Black Separatism"
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=732
EQ1: Is the separate black nation proposed by Malcolm X a better or nobler goal than "the beloved community" of Martin Luther King, Jr.?
EQ2: What would Americans need to believe, and how would they need to act, in order to achieve Malcolm X's goal as opposed to King's goal?
O1: Explain why Malcolm X believed black Americans needed a nation of their own—separate from the United States—to improve themselves.
O2: Articulate the reasons why Malcolm X thought integration was a false hope for blacks in America.
O3: Explain why Malcolm X disagreed with both the goal and the method of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s nonviolent protest strategy.
O4: Explain Martin Luther King, Jr.'s concept of nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience.
O5: Give reasons for the hope Martin Luther King, Jr. had that America could be peacefully integrated.
O6: Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of each activist's argument, and judge which approach better secures civil rights for black Americans.
JFK and Equal Opportunity
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=808
Use the following speech for this lesson: http://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset+Tree/Asset+Viewers/Audio+Video+Asset+Viewer.htm?guid={1D5879CE-54E5-4659-993F-6833E607029D}&type=Audio
Create a list of civil rights that JFK says should be possible. Determine which of these goals have been achieved, and which are still problems today.
O1: Explain the reasons why the Kennedy administration developed the "New Frontier
O2: Identify the ways in which the Johnson administration expanded upon the Kennedy administration's proposals
O3: Assess the strengths and weaknesses of United States domestic policies adopted in the 1960s
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