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Teaching the Civil Rights Unit
Dave Horton
Whitney Point School District
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Rosa Parks
In 1955 Rosa Parks was arrested for disobeying a segregation law in Montgomery, Alabama, that required her to give up her seat on a bus to a white person. Her action helped to stimulate a boycott. For over a year, blacks refused to use the city's bus system. The boycott recieved national attention and forced city officials to repeal the discriminatory law.
Earl Warren
In 1953 President Eisenhower appointed Earl Warren, the Republican governor of California, as Chief Justice of the United States. The conservative Eisenhower soon discovered that rather than appointing a fellow conservative to the Court, he had choosen one of the great liberal jurists in American history. The Warren Court greatly expanded individual rights and government power to regulate the economy. For example, in Brown v. Board of Education (1954), Warren wrote the decision for a unanimous Court decision outlawing segregation in public schools because segregation denied black students equal protection of the law under the 14th Amendment.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr., emerged as a leader of the American civil rights movement after organizing the famous 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama. Throughout his career he pressed for equal treatment and improved circumstances for blacks, organizing nonviolent protests and delivering powerful speeches on the necessity of eradicating institutional racial inequalities. In 1963 King led a peaceful march between the Washington Monument and the Lincon Memorial, where he delivered his most famous speech, "I Have a Dream."
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson was the 36th United States president. Johnson served as vice president under John F. Kennedy, who was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, in 1963. Johnson was sworn in as president minutes after Kennedy's death. He continued his sucessful domestic reforms after winning the 1964 presidential elections, but his leadership during the Vietnam War became unpopular, and he retired at the end of his term.
Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson became the first black baseball player in the modern major leagues when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. Playing from 1947 to 1956, Robinson had a career batting average of .311, and in 1962 became the first black player elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Shirley Chisholm
Shirley Chisholm, a New York Democrat, was the first black woman to serve in the United States Congress. Chisholm served six terms, from 1969-1983.
Malcolm X
Malcolm X was a militant leader of the Nation of Islam, a Black Muslim organization, in the 1950s and early 1960s. In contrast to other black religious leaders of the time who espoused pacifism, he called for achieving equality "by any means necessary." Malcolm X created a secular black nationalist group known as the Organization of Afro-American Unity. Despite threats on his life, he continued to preach the "new religion" until his assassination in 1965.
Civil Rights Movement
Student Notes
Page 1
What are Civil Rights?
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How did African-Americans lose rights?
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What is lynching?
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Who protested against segregation?
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Page 2
What was the NAACP? Who was Booker T. Washington?
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Who was Marcus Garvey?
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What was the Harlem Renaissance?
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How did WWI and WWII change the lives of African-Americans?
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Page 3
What was the first victory for integration?
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What is integration?
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What was Brown v. Board of Education?
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How were schools integrated?
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Page 4
Who was Rosa Parks?
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Who led the Boycott?
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What is nonviolent protest?
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How did MLK change the civil rights movement?
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Who was Malcolm X?
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Page 5
How did the Federal Government aid the movement?
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How did violence affect the movement?
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What groups promoted the use of violence ?
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What were race riots?
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How did the movement change after 1968?
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Did the civil rights movement end?
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The Ernest Green Story, Study Guide
Name_________________________ Social Studies Period____
Date_________________________ Notes: Video Guide
Directions: Define the following terms using your textbook and/or dictionary.
segregation _______________________________________________________________
desegregation _______________________________________________________________
integration _______________________________________________________________
civil rights _______________________________________________________________
Brown v. Board of Education _______________________________________________________________
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Directions: Use information from the video and any other source you may need to answer the following questions...
1. What court case is quoted at the very beginning of the movie?
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2. What year is the Ernest Green story set in?
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3. Ernest's first school was known as Horace Mann, why would they choose to call a school by that name?
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4. If Ernest had the possibility for "greatness" during his senior year at Horace Mann, why did he want to transfer to Central High?
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5. What does the NAACP stand for?
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6. What reason did the principal of Central High School give the students
as to why they would not be allowed to participate in extra-curricular activities??
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7. What was the real reason the students were being denied these programs?
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8. Where all blacks supportive of integration? Why or why not?
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9. What philosophy were the students taught to use in case of any conflicts that may arise during their transfer period? Where did the minister get this idea from?
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10. Who was the President of the United States at this time?
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11. Thurgood Marshall would go on to later become the first African-American to...? What was his role in this movie?
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12. Rosa Parks achieved distinction in U.S history by...
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13. Why would the demonstrators choose to carry the Confederate flag? Yes, it was a symbol of the Civil War, but why carry it almost 100 years later?
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14. What was Governor Fuabus' reaction to integration? What did he say, how did he act?
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15. What was the President of the U.S. reaction to the situation at Central High? Again, what did he say, how did he act?
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16. Did desegregation happen all at once? Explain.
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17. Describe what a day in the life of one of the Little Rock 9 might have been like during the early days of integration. Consider the day from getting to school in the morning to going to bed at night.
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