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Civil Rights Movement. What was the civil rights movement?. Campaign for equal rights & treatment regardless of skin color Intensified & peaked in American South in 1950s & 60s , but was an international movement (civil rights movement continues today in some parts of the world )
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What was the civil rights movement? Campaign for equal rights & treatment regardless of skin color Intensified & peaked in American South in 1950s & 60s, but was an international movement (civil rights movement continues today in some parts of the world) Names/events you associate with the CRM?
Brown v. Board of Education • http://www.teachersdomain.org/asset/iml04_vid_brown2/
Brown v. Board of Education • What was the significance of the Fourteenth Amendment in Brown v. Board of Education? • What were the arguments on both sides of the Brown case? • What was the significance of the Brown v. Board of Education ruling? Why was it considered controversial?
Who was Brown? • Linda Brown – she had a 7 year old & didn’t understand why she had to be bussed to a rundown black school when there was a good white school in their neighborhood • Harry Briggs- outraged that his five kids went to a school that had ¼ the funding of the white schools • Etc., etc., etc. • Who was Thurgood Marshall? • NAACP lawyer who argued for Brown during the case (and won) • Later became the first Black justice in the US Supreme Court
Your textbook • Look at page 184 in your textbook and read about the Little Rock Nine • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75dhe5Zsy8k
The Little Rock Nine • What do you think the parents of the Nine were thinking on the first day of school? • What do you think the Nine were thinking? • What do you think the other parents were thinking? The other students? • Would you have been able to do what one of the Nine did? How do you think you’d react if that event happened around you? • Is this reflected in today’s world?
Montgomery Bus Boycott • Look at page 183 in your text, the section on the Montgomery Bus Boycott….and look at page 184, the section on Martin Luther King • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QZik4CYtgw
Montgomery Bus Boycott • Is a boycott an effective strategy? • What obstacles stood in the way of the Montgomery Bus Boycott? • What do you think would have been running through the minds of the bus riders like Rosa Parks? The drivers? The other passengers? • What was the connection between Martin Luther King & the Montgomery Bus Boycott?