Compelling Question: What are the most powerful forces to initiate change?

Supporting Question: Is violence or nonviolence more effective in encouraging change?

We will continue our analysis of the Civil Rights movements as it continues into the decade of the 1960s. We will look to see what means of protest are the most effective in encouraging change. We will focus our study on the following events of the early 1960s.

1. Origin of the sit in movements

2. Freedom Riders

3. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from the Birmingham Jail"

4. Freedom Summer

Compelling Question: What are the most powerful forces to initiate change?

Supporting Question: What were the main arguments for American participation in Vietnam?

After the assassination of JFK, President Lyndon B. Johnson addresses three main topics for the remainder of his terms: Civil Rights, Vietnam, and domestic policy. We will first dive into the Vietnam (Cold War) issue.

1. Background of American involvement in Vietnam

2. Gulf of Tonkin Resolutions

3. Escalation of American troops in Vietnam

Compelling Question: What are the most powerful forces to initiate change?

Supporting Question: What were the Main argument and methods used by Vietnam protesters?

Today we will explore some documents to determine the reasons that the American public's perception of Vietnam changed and how they attempted to express their beliefs and initiate change.

Compelling Question: What are the most powerful forces to initiate change?

Supporting Question: What Happened in 1968?

In our search to determine when the American public's opinion of Vietnam changed 1968 seemed to be a pivotal year. What happened in 1968?