Vietnam and Protest Movements

March 16 - 20

Our topics studied include Vietnam War and the Protest movements of the 60's and 70's.  You can read about the events in your text book in Chapters 16, 17, and 18.  Use the following to take notes and complete assignments.

The final assignments for this quarter are two tests in Study Island.  Please take the tests for Cold War and Civil Rights.

Civil Rights

There were many events that made marked impacts in the Civil Rights movement.  Your next task is to create a timeline of 8 events that occurred during the early years of the movement.  Begin with the
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas  and go to 1965 Voting Rights Act.  Each annotation should include a description of the event and how it impacted the Civil Rights Movement.

The Montgomery Bus Boycott

The Montgomery Bus Boycott was one of the first successful demonstrations of unity among African Americans in the early years of the Civil Rights movement.  This event is sometimes over simplified in history textbooks.  There's many dynamics that go unnoticed.  Today we will analyze several primary source documents to determine why this movement, at this time, was successful.

This embedded documents will be used in Blocks 1 and 5.  Block 2, please see the instructions below.

Montgomery INQUIRY1

 

 

 

Rosa Parks Video

The above link will take you to the website "historical thinking matters".  We will watch the video together and then break into partners to examine the primary source documents.  It will be your job to examine the documents and collect information to be used in a class discussion at the end of the period. 
Once we have watched the video, please go to "inquiry".  There will be eight sources listed.  Click on each source, read the document, then look at the "questions tab" in the block on the right.  Answer each question for each document. (you may work together as a team).  Be sure to source your documents so you can reference them in the discussion.  You must also prepare questions for the discussion...

Whole class discussion:

• Why did the Montgomery Bus Boycott succeed?

• To what extent was Rosa Parks responsible for its success?
• Did your answer to the central historical question change? If so,
how?

• What evidence from the documents caused you to revise your

hypotheses?

Homework assignment:  Write a response to the central question "Why did the Montgomery Bus Boycott succeed?"  You must reference a minimum of four documents.