DBQ Prompt

From the 1950s to 1970s leaders of the Civil Rights movement

used various methods to affect change. Analyze the types of

resistance and the extent to which the methods successfully

advanced the movement.

Chapter 27Walking Into Freedom Land:

The Civil Rights Movement (1941-1973)

Monday & Tuesday:

• Distribute Civil Rights Take Home DBQ

• Prep for “Civil Rights” Discussions

Block Day:

• Civil Rights Discussions

• Turn In Discussion Prep Notes

Friday:

• Collect/Discuss Take Home DBQ

• Ch. 27 Multiple Choice Assessment

Civil Rights Discussions Prep HW- Prepare about a page of “Talking Point Notes” on relevant details from

assigned text reading and/or on line research for either Topic #1 or Topic

#2.

- Notes need to be clearly organized into two sections:

- FACTS (summery of key details)

- COMMENTARY (opinions of relevance of facts to your assigned

discussion questions)

Crash Course US History – Civil Rights in the 1950s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S64zRnnn4Po&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtMwmepBjTSG593eG7ObzO7s&index=42

Crash Course US History – Civil Rights in the 1960shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkXFb1sMa38&index=41&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtMwmepBjTSG593eG7ObzO7s

Pre Civil WarAbolition movement

Sparked by 2nd Great Awakening

sparks push for black civil rights

Reconstruction Era• 13th, 14th & 15th Amendments passed ending

slavery and granting citizenship & voting

rights…but Federal Gov’t soon stops

enforcement during “Gilded Age”

• Jim Crow segregation become entrenched in

South justified by “States Rights” arguments

• Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) decision supports

“separate but equal” – diminishes in reality the

earlier Constitutional breakthroughs

Review Origins of the

Movement

Civil Rights Struggles

1850’s – 1940’s

WEB DuBois Booker T. Washington

Progressive Era Black Civil Rights Activists Work for Change by Differ in Goals & Tactics

1920’s & 1930’s“Great Migration”

Shifts Rights

Struggle North

NAACP

Founded

Harlem

Renaissance

&

“New Negro”

Marcus Garvey

&

UNIA

1940s: “Double V” campaign & arguments against

Nazi racism promotes integration during/immediately after WWII

Still, “Jim Crow” (aka du jour segregation) laws in South &

de facto segregation in North/West strong into the mid 20th Century

SouthWest

North

Discussion Topic #1

Growth of the Civil Rights Movement 1955-1965 (pp. 859-870)

DISCUSSION PROMPTS

1) What factors explain the rise of the civil rights protest movement? Why was

nonviolent civil disobedience the chosen tactic?

2) In what ways did white resistance hinder the movement? In what ways did it help?

Consider the following events, organizations and people:

Brown v. Board Case, Orval Faubus, Emmett Till Trial, Montgomery Bus Boycotts,

Lunch Counter Sit-Ins, Freedom Rides, MLK’s Letter From a Birmingham Jail,

March on Washington, Freedom Summer, Selma March

Little Rock Nine (1957)

confrontation results from

Brown v. Board (1954)

“Dixiecrats” like

Arkansas Governor

Orval Faubus issue

“states rights”

“Southern Manifesto”

and refuse to follow

Supreme Court…Federal

Gov’t forced to act

Emmett Till Murder Trial (1955)

Montgomery

Bus Boycotts

(1955)

Lunch Counter Sit-Ins (1960)

Organized by “grassroots” SNCC…media

attention garners some northern white

support and pushed federal actions

Freedom

Rides (1961) organized

by grassroots CORE

organization. Violence

forced federal

intervention

“Battle for Birmingham” (1963)

Boycotts/Marches & Reactions

“High Tide” of

Non-Violent Black

Civil Rights MovementMarch on Washington

&

“I Have a Dream” Speech

Landmark Legislation:

Civil Rights Act (1964)

Voting Rights Act (1965)

24th Amendment (1965)

Freedom Summer

&

Civil Rights

Workers

Murdered

Prompting

Federal

Intervention

(1964)

“Bloody Sunday” Selma March (1965)

Discussion Topic #2

Beyond Civil Rights 1966-1973 (pp. 871-880)

Consider the following events,

organizations and people:

Black Nationalism, Malcom X, Nation

of Islam, Stokely Carmichael & Black

Power Movement, Black Panther Party,

Young Lords, Watts Riots, Kerner

Commission, MLK Assassination, Cesar

Chavez, Chicano Movement, La Raza

Unida, American Indian Movement,

Alcatraz Occupation, Wounded Knee

Confrontation

DISCUSSION PROMPTS

1) What factors accounted for a growing popularity of militant civil

rights actions staring in the mid 1960s?

2) Many groups called for greater racial or ethnic pride and

independence from white America by the later 1960s. What were the

advantages and disadvantages of these developments?

Increasing

Popularity

Of Militancy

&

Black Nationalism

Frightens Many Whites

Malcolm XNationalist

& Militant

“By any

Means

Necessary”

Eventually

breaks with

“Black Muslims” and begins

to promotes cooperation

with “regular”

civil rights movement…

assassinated

by Nation of Islam members

Former SNCC Member turned militant, Stokely

Carmichael promotes “Black Power” and inspires militancy

The Black

Panther Party

Founded in

Oakland, CA

in 1966

by

Huey Newton

&

Bobby Seale

After Watts Riots in August 1965, federal government sponsors comprehensive investigation

of causes called Kerner Commission. Results indicate that growing violence was a reaction to

on going “de facto” segregation. And that the end of “de jure” segregation did not change the

day to day life of most urban blacks causing growing frustration. Violence explodes again after

1968 MLK assassination.

Cesar Chavez

&

La Raza Unida

AIM

Wounded Knee

&

Alcatraz

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-preview-cornel-west/

Dr. Cornell West Interviewed on 60 Minutes

On Current State of Race in America