5th SW

Cold War:

Fifties Culture:

The Beckoning Sea.pdf Beat generation short story. Read and write up. How is this a rejection of the fifties?

Civil Rights

Eyes on the Prize: part 1, part 4, These are the excerpts that we watched in class from this series on the Civil Rights Movement.
March is a series of three graphic novels on the Civil Rights Movement by John Lewis. There is a copy in the Lowell library and at the SF Public Library. This is worth two E/C points.
Movies: you should be able to find these on streaming services.
Thirteen Days about the Cuban Missile Crisis
Marshall Hollywoodized story of a Thurgood Marshall case.
Hidden Figures: African-American women who worked at NASA.
The Help: how African-American servants were treated in the Deep South in the 1950s.
X: the story of Malcolm X by the director Spike Lee
Trial of the Chicago Seven (2020) about the seven people tried after the 1968 demonstrations at the Democratic Convention in Chicago or The Chicago Ten, documentary of the same topic, partly animated.
Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution on Amazon, a documentary .
Berkeley in the Sixties, documentary
Segregation and resegregation in Alabama E/C
Podcast Revisionist History: 1. Miss Buchanan's Period of Adjustment, 30m 2. Footsoldier 45m (1pt E/C total)
Bob Dylan "Only a Pawn in Their Game" at March on Washington, and lyrics
Joan Baez "We Shall Overcome" at the March on Washington
Bob Dylan "Lonesome Death of Hattie Caroll" based on a true story
Cleverness of Civil Rights Movement, chapters from Malcolm Gladwell’s David and Goliath (read and respond).

Sixties:

Seventies:

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