17: Civil Rights Movement

17: Civil Rights Movement

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Civil Rights Unit - Teaching Tolerance
Civil Rights Unit - Teaching Tolerance
This offers a detailed set of curriculum improvement strategies for classroom instructors who want to apply these practices. In five discreet steps, we identify specific suggestions and procedures for building robust, meaningful lessons that cultivate a deeper understanding of modern civil rights history.
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·tolerance.org·
Civil Rights Unit - Teaching Tolerance
The Civil Rights Movement fraud, sham and hoax 1964 - Speech by George C. Wallace
The Civil Rights Movement fraud, sham and hoax 1964 - Speech by George C. Wallace
In this July 4th speech, George Wallace argues against the Civil Rights Bill using arguments that appear in other times in US History. This could be used to mine for DBQ excerpts or a guided reading/analysis exercise. Perhaps a continuity and change analysis with regard to the arguments he uses.
It is a fraud, a sham, and a hoax. This bill will live in infamy. To sign it into law at any time is tragic. To do so upon the eve of the celebration of our independence insults the intelligence of the American people.
But before I get into that, let me point out one important fact. It would have been impossible for the American people to have been deceived by the sponsors of this bill had there been a responsible american press to tell the people exactly what the bill contained. If they had had the integrity and the guts to tell the truth, this bill would never have been enacted.
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·let.rug.nl·
The Civil Rights Movement fraud, sham and hoax 1964 - Speech by George C. Wallace
Platform of the States Rights Democratic Party 1948
Platform of the States Rights Democratic Party 1948
We stand for the segregation of the races and the racial integrity of each race; the constitutional right to choose one's associates
We stand for the segregation of the races and the racial integrity of each race
We oppose and condemn the action of the Democratic Convention in sponsoring a civil rights program calling for the elimination of segregation
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·presidency.ucsb.edu·
Platform of the States Rights Democratic Party 1948
Malcolm X: The Ballot or the Bullet 1964
Malcolm X: The Ballot or the Bullet 1964
Teachers can use this speech to illustrate the another side of the Civil Rights movement. It is helpful to bring attention to Malcolm X's citation of the 2nd Amendment. According to Jill Lepore, there are not many modern references to gun rights before the Black Power movement brought them to attention in the mid 1960s
If the white man doesn't want the black man buying rifles and shotguns, then let the government do its job.
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·edchange.org·
Malcolm X: The Ballot or the Bullet 1964
The Southern Manifesto - 1956
The Southern Manifesto - 1956
The reaction of 19 Senators and 81 members of Congress to the Brown v Board decision. Among its many assertions opposing Civil Rights is the statement "We commend the motives of thise States which have declared the intention to resist forced integration by any lawful means"
#primary source#US II Unit 5: Civil Rights Movement
·web.utk.edu·
The Southern Manifesto - 1956
Montgomery bus boycott - Wikipedia
Montgomery bus boycott - Wikipedia
Simple lesson plan - have students look through this page and bullet list what they don't know, and what they were impressed by as they learned it (ie - leaders of the boycott had to purchase car insurance from Lloyds of London because Alabama insurance companies tried to break the boycott by denying car insurance policies to African-Americans, thereby ending the car pools that allowed them to boycott the buses)
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·en.wikipedia.org·
Montgomery bus boycott - Wikipedia
In support of Clyde Sellers (Your view) - al.com
In support of Clyde Sellers (Your view) - al.com
Want to have your students act like historians? Then have them investigate the claims of the nephew of the police commissioner of Montgomery during the boycott. In this 2013 he defends his uncle - have your students investigate and fact check his claims. Don't forget to tell them to find out what was left out of the article as well
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·al.com·
In support of Clyde Sellers (Your view) - al.com
Public Opinion Polls on Civil Rights Movement, 1961-1969
Public Opinion Polls on Civil Rights Movement, 1961-1969
Classrooms are filled with statements about what people thought, felt and believed. Thess over-generalized statements are over-inclusive, inaccurate and logically unsound. Yet they continue. Here are the results of a dozen or so public opinion polls in which people were asked about the Freedom riders, sit ins, etc. Newsflash - 61% of Americans asked said they disapproved of the Freedom Riders
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·crmvet.org·
Public Opinion Polls on Civil Rights Movement, 1961-1969
How Resistance to Desegregation Shaped Prince Edward County - The Atlantic
How Resistance to Desegregation Shaped Prince Edward County - The Atlantic
Sometimes the outlined, bullet point narrative won't drive home an empathetic understanding of the Civil Rights movement as well as a personal story. Teachers of Brown vs. Board are teaching less than half the story if they ignore the extent to which the white south resisted the Supreme Court's decisions. This is a great reading for students
#secondary sources#US II Unit 5: Civil Rights Movement
·theatlantic.com·
How Resistance to Desegregation Shaped Prince Edward County - The Atlantic
“Segregation Now, Segregation Forever”, by George Wallace, 1963 (Speech)
“Segregation Now, Segregation Forever”, by George Wallace, 1963 (Speech)
George Wallace's iconic quote came from the 1963 State of the State speech for the state of Alabame
In the name of the greatest people that have ever trod this earth, I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny . . . and I say . . . segregation today . . . segregation tomorrow . . . segregation forever.
We remind all within hearing of this Southland that a Southerner, Peyton Randolph, presided over the Continental Congress in our nation’s beginning . . . that a Southerner, Thomas Jefferson, wrote the Declaration of Independence, that a Southerner, George Washington, is the Father of our country . . . that a Southerner, James Madison, authored our Constitution, that a Southerner, George Mason, authored the Bill of Rights and it was a Southerner who said, “Give me liberty . . . . . . or give me death,” Patrick Henry.<br> Southerners played a most magnificent part in erecting this great divinely inspired system of freedom . . . and as God is our witnesses, Southerners will save it.
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·blackpast.org·
“Segregation Now, Segregation Forever”, by George Wallace, 1963 (Speech)
The Martin Luther King FBI file
The Martin Luther King FBI file
This is just part of a King Levison file which lists hundreds of pages of conversations gathered through surveillance and wire taps. This is the "dark-underbelly" of primary sources in that is it raw data. The transcripts are not included, but the list of visits, telephone calls and other surveillance is extensive.
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·lexisnexis.com·
The Martin Luther King FBI file
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing -- broken window with faceless Jesus - (Photo)
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing -- broken window with faceless Jesus - (Photo)
Like the surviving altar in the burned Notre Dame Cathedral of 2019, events often provide an easy means to find other meaning. More important than that thought, is the fact that this is not new, not unique and only appears so for people ignorant of history. Only the face of Jesus was blown out of the stained glass in the only glass left in the 16th Avenue baptist church. What meaning can be taken from this?
#historical pictures#primary source#US II Unit 5: Civil Rights Movement
·bplonline.cdmhost.com·
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing -- broken window with faceless Jesus - (Photo)
The meaning of the Birmingham tragedy, 1963. | Pearl Digital Collections
The meaning of the Birmingham tragedy, 1963. | Pearl Digital Collections
Protestant Council of the City of New York panel discussion with James Baldwin, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Dr. Thomas C. Kilgore, Jr., focusing on the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, an act of white supremacist terrorism which occurred at the African-American 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama on Sunday, September 15, 1963
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·digital.history.pcusa.org·
The meaning of the Birmingham tragedy, 1963. | Pearl Digital Collections
"The Purpose of Education", by Martin Luther King, Jr., 1947 (Article)
"The Purpose of Education", by Martin Luther King, Jr., 1947 (Article)
This can be used for a Civil Rights lesson and in any conversation about Social Studies education - it is not just critical thinking we have to teach - but character also
The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.
We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character--that is the goal of true education.
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·kinginstitute.stanford.edu·
"The Purpose of Education", by Martin Luther King, Jr., 1947 (Article)