Freedom Riders were groups of white and African American civil rights activists who participated in Freedom Rides, bus trips through the American South in 1961 to protest segregated bus terminals. Freedom Riders tried to use “whites-only” restrooms and lunch counters at bus stations in Alabama, South Carolina and other Southern states. The groups were confronted by arresting police officers—as well as horrific violence from white protestors—along their routes, but also drew international attention to their cause. I Have a Dream speech freedomsring.stanford.edu/?view=Speech Freedom Summer--Mississippi Burning Freedom Summer, also known as the the Mississippi Summer Project, was a 1964 voter registration drive sponsored by civil rights organizations including the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) and the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Aimed at increasing black voter registration in Mississippi, the Freedom Summer workers included black Mississippians and more than 1,000 out-of-state, predominately white volunteers. The Ku Klux Klan, police and state and local authorities carried out a series of violent attacks against the activists, including arson, beatings, false arrest and the murder of at least three people. Mississippi Burning www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/freedomsummer-murder/ The remains of three civil rights workers whose disappearance on June 21 garnered national attention are found buried in an earthen dam near Philadelphia, Mississippi. Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman, both white New Yorkers, had traveled to heavily segregated Mississippi in 1964 to help organize civil rights efforts on behalf of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). The third man, James Chaney, was a local African American man who had joined CORE in 1963. The disappearance of the three young men led to a massive FBI investigation that was code-named MIBURN, for “Mississippi Burning.” Bloody Sunday On March 7, 1965 around 600 people crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in an attempt to begin the Selma to Montgomery march. State troopers violently attacked the peaceful demonstrators in an attempt to stop the march for voting rights.
Black Power and the Black Panther Party www.ushistory.org/us/54i.asp Civil Rights Movement Project
The African American Civil Rights Movement was a large and expansive time in our country’s history. While you have spent the last month learning about some of the major people, events and legislation from this time period, you have not had the opportunity to investigate specific events deeply. For the next week, you are going to conduct a short research project centered around a specific event from the movement. You will be working with a partner and will work together on certain aspects of the project as well as individually on your specific portion. You will need to keep a work log explaining what each of you did to contribute to the project. All projects will be presented to the class on the appropriate due dates. Due Dates: Feb. 9 (Maroon), Feb. 12 (Gold) Option 1 Create a poster with pictures or drawings (5 minimum), a write up under each photo giving it's context and importance (1-2 sentences), and textual information that explains the significance of your topic (2-3 sentences). Cite your sources. Be creative! Make the poster reflect your knowledge of the topic and personal styles. Option 2 Create a documentary (IMovie or Touchcast Studio). It must be a minimum of 3 minutes, maximum of 5 minutes in length. Use spoken word and a picture/video montage to depict the historical event you have chosen. Hand in a brief explanation (1-2 paragraphs) that summarizes the information in your documentary. Include a citation screen in your credits. Option 3 Create a dance (please video), painting or song (please video) that represents a historical event from the Civil Rights Movement. Attach a brief explanation (1-2 paragraphs) that explains how your artistic representation interprets the historical event. Include a list of resource citations. FCA's Writing Components and Work log (20 pts) Visuals/pictures/Video (20 pts) A section for citations (10 pts). Topic Choices
11. March On Washington 12. 16th Street Church Bombing 13. OTHER IDEAS NOT ON LIST? Bring your idea to your teacher.
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Scottsboro Boys The Green Book for Negro Motorists www.history.com/news/the-green-book-the-black-travelers-guide-to-jim-crow-america Homework: Civil Rights Crimes
Use the handout and your iPads to research the 5 Civil Rights Crimes listed. Briefly describe each event and be prepared to share findings with the class. Quiz: Warriors Don't Cry and 1950's History Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll or rock 'n' roll) is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, from African American musical styles such as gospel, jump blues, jazz, boogie woogie, and rhythm and blues, along with country music. Who invented Rock N Roll? It was a black and white alloy of Fats Domino, Lloyd Price, Ike Turner, Hank Williams, Joe Turner, Louis Jordan, Ray Charles, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Buddy Holly - and Elvis Presley. Presley himself never claimed to have invented rock 'n' roll. Rock N Roll Article history_of_rock_n_roll_article.docx Roll of the radio, Disc Jockeys and concerts. Alan Freed was a radio personality and creator of the term "Rock and Roll". The Moondog Coronation Ball was a concert held at the Cleveland Arena in Cleveland, Ohio on March 21, 1952. It is generally accepted as the first major rock and roll concert. The concert featured Tiny Grimes, Paul Williams and the Hucklebuckers, and the Rocking Highlanders (an African American instrumental group that appeared in kilts). Also on the bill were The Dominoes, Varetta Dillard and Danny Cobb. Dick Clark's music show American Bandstand began in 1957 and continued until 1989. The program's mix of lip-synched performances and its "Rate-a-Record" segment captivated teenagers, propelling Clark to fame. Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve, the long-running special broadcast that aired on December 31 each year, began in 1972, and he created numerous other shows over the years, such as the American Music Awards. Sam Phillips American record producer Sam Phillips is best known for discovering musicians Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, B.B. King, Johnny Cash and Howlin' Wolf, among other blues, country and rock 'n' roll artists. He is also known for revolutionizing the music industry and introducing rock 'n' roll to the world throughout the 1950s. Group Activity: Share Rock N Roll songs. Analyze why you believe each song was popular and how it demonstrates the blending of black and white music. Brown Vs. The Board of Education www.history.com/topics/black-history/brown-v-board-of-education-of-topeka Thurgood Marshall (July 2, 1908 to January 24, 1993) was an American lawyer who was appointed as an associate justice of the Supreme Court in 1967. He was the first African-American to hold the position and served for 24 years, until 1991. Marshall studied law at Howard University. As counsel to the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), he utilized the judiciary to champion equality for African Americans. In 1954, he won theBrown vs. the Board of Education case, in which the Supreme Court ended racial segregation in public schools. Little Rock 9 1957 The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine black students who enrolled at formerly all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in September 1957. Their attendance at the school was a test of Brown v. Board of Education, a landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling that declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional. On September 4, 1957, the first day of classes at Central High, Governor Orval Faubus called in the Arkansas National Guard to block the black students’ entry into the high school. Later that month, President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent in federal troops to escort the Little Rock Nine into the school. Ruby Bridges (born September 8, 1954) was six when she became the first African-American child to integrate a white Southern elementary school on November 14, 1960, escorted to class by her mother and U.S. marshals due to violent mobs. Bridges' bravery paved the way for continued Civil Rights action and she's shared her story with future generations in educational forums. Partner Activity: Complete the Civil Rights Vocabulary sheet. Be prepared to share answers with the class. There will be a quiz over the words next class. Homework: Find a song from the 1950's that demonstrates the emergence of Rock N Roll. Be prepared to share the song and an image of the entertainer on Friday.
Harry Truman Korean War: Role of the US and the United Nations. Webquest Activity: korean_war_webquest___________________________________________________________name.docx 1950's Topics:
The Cold War Red Scare Space Race Civil Rights Movement Urbanization of America Rock N Roll Work on Concentration Camp Keynote--due Thursday
Concentration Camp Research: Find a blue print of a Nazi concentration camp. Compare and contrast it to the Japanese Internment Camps in the United States. When did the Concentration Camps transition into Death Camps? What was "The Final Solution"? Due at the end of the block. Turn into ebackpack. Create a 10 Slide Keynote--5 slides pictures, 5 slides text (3 sentences per slide). Explain how the pictures show the similarities and differences between the camp styles. Cite sources. Continue Watching Saving Private Ryan Concentration Camp Research: Find a blue print of a Nazi concentration camp. Compare and contrast it to the Japanese Internment Camps in the United States. When did the Concentration Camps transition into Death Camps? What was "The Final Solution"? Due at the end of the block. Turn into ebackpack. Create a 10 Slide Keynote--5 slides pictures, 5 slides text (3 sentences per slide). Explain how the pictures show the similarities and differences between the camp styles. Cite sources. Look up and find a picture and brief biography for each. Be prepared to share in class.
Battles of the European Theater Battle of Stalingrad Battle of El Amien D-Day Invasion (Normandy, France) Bombing of Dresden Battle of the Bulge Military Leaders and Personnel The Desert Fox--Rommel Gen. Patton General Eisenhower Henry "Hap" Arnold Omar Bradley Audie Murphy Ernie Pyle US Map Quiz Next Class: All 50, limited word bank The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. Holocaust is a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire." The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, deemed "inferior," were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community. The Ghetto: During the Holocaust, the creation of ghettos was a key step in the Nazi process of separating, persecuting, and ultimately destroying Europe's Jews. Walled portions of a city kept Jewish people confined until they were later moved to Concentration Camps (Forced Labor and Death Camps). The Final Solution The origin of the "Final Solution," the Nazi plan to exterminate the Jewish people, remains uncertain. What is clear is that the genocide of the Jews was the culmination of a decade of Nazi policy, under the rule of Adolf Hitler. The "Final Solution" was implemented in stages. After the Nazi party rise to power, state-enforced racism resulted in anti-Jewish legislation, boycotts, "Aryanization," and finally the "Night of Broken Glass" pogrom, all of which aimed to remove the Jews from German society. After the beginning of World War II, anti-Jewish policy evolved into a comprehensive plan to concentrate and eventually annihilate European Jewry. Infamous Nazi's: Joseph Goebbels (1897-1945), Hitler's trusted friend and colleague, was the minister for public enlightenment and propaganda. In this capacity, Goebbels was charged with presenting Hitler to the public in the most favorable light, regulating the content of all German media and fomenting anti-Semitism. Goebbels forced Jewish artists, musicians, actors, directors and newspaper and magazine editors into unemployment, and staged a public burning of books that were considered ”un-German.” He also spearheaded the production of Nazi propaganda films and other projects. Goebbels remained in this post and was loyal to Hitler until the end of World War II (1939-45). On May 1, 1945, the day after Hitler committed suicide, Goebbels and his wife poisoned their six children and then killed themselves. Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945) was the Reich Leader (Reichsführer) of the dreaded SS of the Nazi party from 1929 until 1945. Himmler presided over a vast ideological and bureaucratic empire that defined him for many—both inside and outside the Third Reich—as the second most powerful man in Germany during World War II. Given overall responsibility for the security of the Nazi empire, Himmler was the key and senior Nazi official responsible for conceiving and overseeing implementation of the so-called Final Solution, the Nazi plan to murder the Jews of Europe. Joseph Mengele (16 March 1911 – 7 February 1979) was second only to Eichmann as a target of Nazi hunters, the doctor nicknamed the Angel of Death conducted macabre experiments among the prisoners at the Auschwitz death camp. An SS officer, Mengele was sent at the start of World War II to the eastern front to repel the Soviets and received an Iron Cross for his bravery and service. After being wounded and declared unfit for active duty, he was assigned to the Auschwitz death camp. There, he used the prisoners—particularly twins, pregnant women and the disabled—as human guinea pigs. Mengele even tortured and killed children with his medical experiments. Rudolf Hess (born April 26, 1894, Alexandria, Egypt—died August17, 1987, Spandau Prison, West Germany), German Nazi Party member who was Adolf Hitler’s deputy as party leader. He created an international sensation when in 1941 he secretly flew to Great Britain on an abortive self-styled mission to negotiate a peace between Britain and Germany. Hermann Goering Born in Germany in 1893, Hermann Göring was a leader of the Nazi Party. He played a prominent role in organizing the Nazi police state in Germany and established concentration camps for the "corrective treatment" of individuals. Indicted by the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg in 1946, Göring was condemned to hang as a war criminal, but he took cyanide the night he was to be executed. Adolf Eichman was born on March 19, 1906, in Solingen, Germany, Adolf Eichmann joined the Nazi party in 1932, rising quickly through the ranks of the Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer as he traveled through Nazi-controlled territory in search of Jewish populations. During his trial, Eichmann held firmly that he was just following orders. He was executed by the state of Israel in 1962, in Ramla, Isreal, for his role as coordinator of logistics for "the final solution to the Jewish question." Reinhard Heydrich in full Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich, byname The Hangman, German Der Henker, (born March 7, 1904, Halle, Germany—died June 4, 1942, Prague, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia [now in Czech Republic]), Nazi German official who was Heinreich Himmler’s chief lieutenant in the Schutzstaffel (“Protective Echelon”), the paramilitary corps commonly known as the SS. He played a key role in organizing the Holocaust during the opening years of World War II. Assignment: Concentration Camp Research: Find a blue print of a Nazi concentration camp. Compare and contrast it to the Japanese Internment Camps in the United States. How were people transported to the concentration camps? What was "The Final Solution"? What was the difference between being told to go right or left? Describe the treatment of the prisoners in the concentration camps and how this was different from the internment camps. Due at the end of the block. Turn into ebackpack. Create a 10 Slide Keynote--5 slides pictures, 5 slides text (3 sentences per slide). Cite sources. Read the following anti-semitic laws: NUREMBERG RACE LAWS: TRANSLATIONHow to cite this article Reich Citizenship Law of September 15, 1935 (Translated from Reichsgesetzblatt I, 1935, p. 1146.) The Reichstag has unanimously enacted the following law, which is promulgated herewith: Article 1 1. A subject of the state is a person who enjoys the protection of the German Reich and who in consequence has specific obligations toward it. 2. The status of subject of the state is acquired in accordance with the provisions of the Reich and the Reich Citizenship Law. Article 2 1. A Reich citizen is a subject of the state who is of German or related blood, and proves by his conduct that he is willing and fit to faithfully serve the German people and Reich. 2. Reich citizenship is acquired through the granting of a Reich citizenship certificate. 3. The Reich citizen is the sole bearer of full political rights in accordance with the law. Article 3 The Reich Minister of the Interior, in coordination with the Deputy of the Führer, will issue the legal and administrative orders required to implement and complete this law. Nuremberg, September 15, 1935 At the Reich Party Congress of Freedom The Führer and Reich Chancellor [signed] Adolf Hitler The Reich Minister of the Interior [signed] Frick Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor of September 15, 1935 (Translated from Reichsgesetzblatt I, 1935, pp. 1146-7.) Moved by the understanding that purity of German blood is the essential condition for the continued existence of the German people, and inspired by the inflexible determination to ensure the existence of the German nation for all time, the Reichstag has unanimously adopted the following law, which is promulgated herewith: Article 1 1. Marriages between Jews and subjects of the state of German or related blood are forbidden. Marriages nevertheless concluded are invalid, even if concluded abroad to circumvent this law. 2. Annulment proceedings can be initiated only by the state prosecutor. Article 2 Extramarital relations between Jews and subjects of the state of German or related blood are forbidden. Article 3 Jews may not employ in their households female subjects of the state of German or related blood who are under 45 years old. Article 4 1. Jews are forbidden to fly the Reich or national flag or display Reich colors. 2. They are, on the other hand, permitted to display the Jewish colors. The exercise of this right is protected by the state. Article 5 1. Any person who violates the prohibition under Article 1 will be punished with a prison sentence. 2. A male who violates the prohibition under Article 2 will be punished with a jail term or a prison sentence. 3. Any person violating the provisions under Articles 3 or 4 will be punished with a jail term of up to one year and a fine, or with one or the other of these penalties. Article 6 The Reich Minister of the Interior, in coordination with the Deputy of the Führer and the Reich Minister of Justice, will issue the legal and administrative regulations required to implement and complete this law. Article 7 The law takes effect on the day following promulgation, except for Article 3, which goes into force on January 1, 1936. Nuremberg, September 15, 1935 At the Reich Party Congress of Freedom The Führer and Reich Chancellor [signed] Adolf Hitler The Reich Minster of the Interior [signed] Frick The Reich Minister of Justice [signed] Dr. Gürtner The Deputy of the Führer [signed] R. Hess Watch the following video and take notes on how Jewish people were treated. |
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