The Civil Rights Movement

Post date: Feb 27, 2012 6:2:25 PM

The Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968

I will be hosting a live class at 1:00 pm MT on Wed, 2-29 on the topic of the Civil Rights Movement. While Lincoln had emancipated Southern slaves in 1863 and the 13th and 14th amendments had theoretically given African-Americans the same rights as any other Americans, the KKK and "Jim Crow" Laws throughout the South reduced Blacks to second-class citizenry in a "separate but equal" system. In 1954, a landmark case heard by the Supreme Court, Brown v Board of Education, ruled that separate was not equal, and the move to end segregation was born. This movement, later called the Civil Rights Movement, was a bloody and violent chapter in US History that brought out both the best and worst in Americans. I will be going over some of the key events of this era in order to give students a greater understanding of this movement and time in American History.  Project Credit: Attendance in this live class will fulfill the requirements of your live class assignment for this unit. To get into this class please click the following link: Trehal's Office/Live Classroom. Anyone studying the Civil Rights movement will come away with a new appreciation for the expression, "freedom isn't free." I hope to see you in class!

If you were unable to attend the live version of this class you may still get credit for this project by watching the recording and answering the following question: Who accompanied each of the Little Rock Nine to all of their classes? To get credit, please submit the answer to this question and the date you watched the recording to the unit live class assignment. You can watch the recording by clicking on the following link: View the Blackboard Collaborate recording

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This class applies to the following courses:

US History Reconstruction to Present B, Unit 2

Vietnam Era, Unit 2

US Government B, Unit 3