Section outline
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Chapter 21: Civil Rights
Movement
During this unit of study students will analyze the Civil Rights Movement in the United States from 1950-1970. Students will analyze the event as a political movement and will look closely at the political and civil unrest that accompanied the time period. Within the assigned text students will become acquainted with the event via five major areas:
The Demand for Civil Rights: Brown v Bd of Ed, Montgomery Bus Boycotts, Resistance in Little Rock
Leaders and Strategies: NAACP, SCLC, CORE, SNCC
The Stuggle Intensifies: Sit-In Movement, Freedom Rides, Birmingham, Ole Miss
The Polotical Response: March on Washington, Freedom Summer, Selma, Legal Landmarks
The Movement Takes a New Turn: Malcolm X, Black Nationalism, Black Power, Memphis,
Below are links to two films which aired on American Experience. Each of these films can be viewed online. The films are extremely interesting and very relevant to the study of this unit.
The Road to Memphis: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/memphis/player/
The first film to explore the mind of King's elusive assassin, Road to Memphis is an incisive portrait of an America on edge in a crisis-laden year and a cautionary tale of how the course of history can be forever altered by the actions of one man.
A Class Apart:
From a small-town Texas murder emerged a landmark civil rights case. The little-known story of the Mexican American lawyers who took Hernandez v. Texas to the Supreme Court, challenging Jim Crow-style discrimination.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/class/
Classroom Assignments and Links
