Thursday 21 May 2020

History 12 Course Information for This Week

Good morning everyone,

This week we will look at the US Civil Rights Movement

Please start by looking at the following test:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Cvq94hW04GNTR1SRRhmZPAnNziRWU7YW/view?usp=sharing

Q. Do you know what it is?....

It's a literacy test used by the state of Alabama to determine if African Americans were "smart" enough to vote...
You probably realized that white people didn't have yo take this test.  It was a form voter suppression used by several states to prevent blacks from voting.
Q.  Can you think of any current measures that are being used in the United States to suppress certain groups from voting?

Please have a look at the following slide show:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/13oHlyZUYIBg6h83wnrOgQ47D27AmDWck/view?usp=sharing

Complete the Know/Wonder/Learn chart while watching the slide show


Know
Wonder
Hope to Learn













 

Please go over the following Power Point and supporting handout

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_MG5R7iL8xgcFVRQYPSPXr4-7-J6yxHu/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1F_36vUAHIdtKqub58AMxH1dtK1RhMh-B/view?usp=sharing

Watch the following brief video on the Us Civil Rights Movement

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URxwe6LPvkM

Watch one of the great speeches in history by Martin Luther King and compare and contrast to the equally impressive Malcolm X

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vDWWy4CMhE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_uYWDyYNUg


Finally,  Identify and give the significance of the following:

Jim Crow Laws
Brown vs Board of Education
Million Man March
US Civil Rights Act
Montgomery Bus Strikes









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