Chapter+29+-+Civil+Rights

=Chapter 29 Learning Objectives=

Chapter Objective

 * To understand the African-American struggle for civil rights during the 1950s and 1960s.


 * SECTION 29-1** "Taking on Segregation" (pp. 906-915)
 * 1) Explain how legalized segregation deprived African Americans of their rights as citizens.
 * 2) Summarize civil rights legal activity and the response to the //Plessy// and //Brown// cases.
 * 3) Trace Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s civil rights activities, beginning with the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
 * 4) Describe the expansion of the civil rights movement.


 * SECTION 29-2** "The Triumphs of a Crusade" (pp. 916-922)
 * 1) Identify the goal of the freedom riders.
 * 2) Explain how civil rights activism forced President Kennedy to act against segregation.
 * 3) State the motives of the 1963 March on Washington.
 * 4) Describe the tactics tried by civil rights organizations to secure passage of the Voting Rights Act.


 * SECTION 29-3** "Challenges and Changes in the Movement"
 * 1) Compare segregation in the North with segregation in the South.
 * 2) Identify the leaders who shaped the Black Power movement.
 * 3) Describe the reaction to the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
 * 4) Summarize the accomplishments of the civil rights movement.

= = = = =Chapter 29 Power Point Presentations=
 * [[file:Sections 29-1 Taking on Segregation and 29-2 Triumphs of a Crusade.ppt]]
 * [[file:Section 29-3 Challenges and Changes in the Movement.ppt]]



= = =Chapter 29 Assignments=

//Reading assignments are due the next school day unless noted otherwise// ||= **Homework Assignments** //Homework assignments are due the next school day unless noted otherwise.// ||
 * = **Date** ||= **In-Class Assignments** ||= **Reading Assignments**
 * = **Wednesday**
 * 5.20.15** || * Read Section 29-1 and answer the following questions:
 * 1) //How did the Supreme Court rule in __Brown v. Board__?//
 * 2) //How did President Eisenhower respond to the Little Rock school crisis?//
 * 3) //How did the Montgomery Bus Boycott begin? What effect did it have?//
 * 4) //What was Martin Luther King Jr.'s approach to battling racial injustice?//
 * 5) //What did SNCC accomplish, and how?// || * Read Section 29-2 || * Finish Section 29-1 in-class assignment if you didn't do so in class. ||
 * = **Thursday**
 * 5.21.15** || * Read Section 29-2 and discuss the questions below.
 * 1) //What was the goal of the freedom riders?//
 * 2) //Who was James Meredith and what did he do?//
 * 3) //How did television coverage of the Birmingham marches affect legislation?//
 * 4) //What was the goal of the March of Washington?//
 * 5) //What was the goal of the Freedom Summer project?//
 * 6) //What did the Voting Rights Act of 1965 state?// || * Read Section 29-3 || * No written assignment. ||
 * = **Friday**
 * 5.22.15** || * View video covering Section 29-3 || * No reading assignment ||  ||

= = =Chapter 29 Quiz Terms=
 * Black Panthers
 * //Brown v. Board//
 * Stokley Carmichael
 * Civil Rights Act of 1964
 * Civil Rights Act of 1968
 * De Facto Segregation
 * De Jure Segregation
 * Freedom Riders
 * Freedom Summer
 * Kerner Commission
 * Malcolm X - Know philosophy
 * Martin Luther King, Jr. - Know philosophy
 * Montgomery Bus Boycott
 * Thurgood Marshall
 * James Meredith
 * //Plessy v. Ferguson//
 * SNCC
 * Twenty-Fourth Amendment
 * Voting Rights Act of 1965