Civil Rights Era

VHS Civil Rights Assignments

Day 1: Introduction to the Civil Rights Movement

  • PPT Slides 1-4 / Discussion
  • Jim Crow Laws
Early Civil Rights

Day 2:

  • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, KS (1954)
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott
  • Little Rock Crisis

Day 3:

  • Civil Rights Movement Quiz #1
  • Discussion 1960-63 (sit-ins, Freedom Rides, SNCC, Birmingham)

Day 4:

  • James Meredith Case -- Primary Source Analysis (not digitized--copies available in classroom).

Day 5: A Time For Justice -- Video

Day 6:

  • Review the events of Birmingham, the March on Washington, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964
  • Assignment: Analysis -- Letter from Birmingham Jail (found at: https://goo.gl/wX7VXM)
VHS Letter from Birmingam

Day 7: Phase 2 -- Voting Rights and Contrasting Philosophies

  • Malcolm X Readings
  • Discussion -- Freedom Summer, Selma, Voting Rights Act of 1965
  • Assignment: Text Questions 936-944
VHSCivilrightssec3.doc

Day 8: LBJ and the Great Society

LBJ_greatsociety

Days 9 &10: Civil Rights Era Review and Exam