Today's Agenda

Learning Target:
I can summarize the key events of the Civil Rights Movement, & I can evaluate the impact of each.

Critical Vocabulary: “Separate but Equal,” Plessy v. Ferguson, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Earl Warren, Brown v. Board of Education, Thurgood Marshall, “All Deliberate Speed,” Civil Disobedience, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr., Montgomery Bus Boycott, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Civil Rights Act of 1957, Orval Faubus, Little Rock Nine, Greensboro Sit-Ins, John F. Kennedy, Freedom Riders, Robert Kennedy, James Meredith, “Letter from Birmingham City Jail,” March on Washington, Lyndon B. Johnson, Great Society, Michael Harrington, The Other America, Twenty-Fourth Amendment, Civil Rights Act of 1964, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Selma, Voting Rights Act of 1965, ‘Affirmative Action,” Richard Nixon, Philadelphia Plan of 1969, “Reverse Discrimination,” Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, Watts Riots, Kerner Commission, Malcolm X, “Black Power,” Stokely Carmichael, Black Panthers

Today's Agenda:

1. Background Question: What does the cartoonist believe about the role of the federal government in social issues such as civil rights? How can you tell?
2. Citizenship Question: Who is the current President of the United States?
   1. ​President G. W. Bush
   2. President Clinton
   3. President Trump
   4. ​President Obama
3. Individual Learning: The Civil Rights Movement
4. Reflection Question: Who, other than Martin Luther King, should be remembered as a Civil Rights hero? Why?

Homework: The Civil Rights Movement Reading