PPT-Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s

SSUSH21 The student will explain economic growth and its impact on the United States 19451970 b Describe the impact television has had on American culture include the presidential debates KennedyNixon1960 and news coverage of the Civil Rights Movement . L/O – To explain the significance of MLK’s death to the Civil Rights Movement. Political Assassinations of the 1960s. During the 1960s, several important US political figures were . assassinated. 4. In honor of Black history month-February 2013. Lesson Objective. Students will be able to . describe how their historical figure performed actions during the Civil Rights . Movement. . (circa 1950-1970).. D. awn . of a golden . age?. The Great . Society. During . his presidential campaign in 1960, John F. Kennedy had promised . the “. New . Frontier”.. . a package of laws and reforms that sought to eliminate injustice and inequality in the United States. . Students at Duke University hold a vigil after the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1968. Continuing protest for civil rights for African Americans . equal . rights for . women. efforts . to end . Litigation . (court cases – i.e. Brown v. Board of Ed.). Boycotts . (Montgomery Bus boycott after the arrest of Rosa Parks). Blacks walked and carpooled to work for over a year until they reversed the segregation laws on Public Buses.. 11.10.5 . Summarize the . diffusion . (spread) of the civil rights movement in the rural South and the urban North. Rapid Review. Discuss . MLK’s. strategy to obtain civil rights. Black Muslims supported this leader. Who?. In 1954, the Civil Rights movement began with the Brown v BOE decision, but the rest of American society remained segregated:. The NAACP showed that the . 14. th. Amendment could be used to challenge segregation. What was the Civil Rights Movement?. civil rights movement. The . civil. rights . movement. can be defined as a mass popular . movement. to secure for African Americans equal access to and opportunities for the basic privileges and rights of U.S. citizenship. Although the roots of the . L/O – To explain the significance of MLK’s death to the Civil Rights Movement. Political Assassinations of the 1960s. During the 1960s, several important US political figures were . assassinated. Challenging Segregation . The Sit-In Movement . In the fall of 1959, four African American college students at a . Woolworth’s department store in Greensboro, NC . sat at a “white’s only” counter and refused to leave until they were served.. 1954-1975. 15.1. Origins of the Civil Rights Movement. Rosa Parks is fingerprinted by Dep. Sheriff D.H. Lackey in Montgomery, Ala., on Feb. 22, 1956, two months after she refused to give up her seat on a bus for a white passenger. Her action prompted the Montgomery bus boycott and sparked the civil rights movement.. A Time of Social Change. Culture and Counterculture. The Main Idea. The counterculture that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s left a lasting impact on American life.. Reading Focus. What led to the rise of the counterculture? . - The goals were to:. desegregate schools, restaurants, buses and other public accommodations . to freely exercise the right to vote; . and to win protection against intimidation, harassment and violence — in general, to gain full and equal rights for African Americans. The Watsons Go To Birmingham 1963. Bell Ringer. What do you . know . about the 1960s and Civil Rights? Write that on your sticky note and place it on the “K” poster.. Anticipation Guide: When we come back from the Thanksgiving Break, we will begin a novel study. The name of the book is .