Bellwork/Group Work
With your neighbor, identify your current knowledge of the Civil Rights Movement. Ask each other these questions:
- Who?
- When?
- Why?
- Where?
- How?
Our Standard
CI.09 Analyze the causes and effects of extremism, and identify the historical roots of terrorist attacks (e.g., PLO, IRA, Al-Qaeda, Taliban, ISIS, the Black Hand, KKK).
What am I learning today?
Ideology has driven some to extremes over the years. Why? What is the impact of their actions? The KKK is a great example of that. We will learn the history of the KKK and its impact on US History and the Civil Rights Movement.
Why am I learning this?
When you see the world’s events, you need to know where those events are happening and why. We need to know the history of the KKK and the Civil Rights Movement to understand how the actions of people in the past have shaped the world we live in today. Remember, history is change over time.
How will I know I learned this?
When you have knowledge of who the KKK was, what they stood for, and how our nation responded to their actions.
What was Mark Twain saying?
Discrimination
dis·crim·i·na·tion – noun
1. an act or instance of discriminating, or of making a distinction.
2. treatment or consideration of, or making a distinction in favor of or against, a person or thing based on the group, class, or category to which that person or thing belongs rather than on individual merit: racial and religious intolerance and discrimination.
3. the power of making fine distinctions; discriminating judgment: She chose the colors with great discrimination.
4. Archaic. something that serves to differentiate.
Origin:
1640–50; < Latin discrīminātiōn- (stem of discrīminātiō ) a distinguishing. See discriminate, -ion
(http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/discrimination)
Prejudice
prej·u·dice – noun
1. an unfavorable opinion or feeling formed beforehand or without knowledge, thought, or reason.
2. any preconceived opinion or feeling, either favorable or unfavorable.
3. unreasonable feelings, opinions, or attitudes, especially of a hostile nature, regarding a racial, religious, or national group.
4. such attitudes considered collectively: The war against prejudice is never-ending.
5. damage or injury; detriment: a law that operated to the prejudice of the majority.
verb (used with object)
6. to affect with a prejudice, either favorable or unfavorable: His honesty and sincerity prejudiced us in his favor.
(http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/prejudice)
Bigotry
big·ot·ry – noun, plural big·ot·ries.
1. stubborn and complete intolerance of any creed, belief, or opinion that differs from one’s own.
2. the actions, beliefs, prejudices, etc., of a bigot.
Origin:
1665–75; bigot + -ry, formation parallel to French bigoterie
Synonyms
1. narrow-mindedness, bias, discrimination.
(http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/bigotry)
Civil War Amendments to the US Constitution
February 8, 1915
How ‘The Birth of a Nation’ Revived the Ku Klux Klan
Jim Crow Laws
Water Fountains
Movie Theaters
Housing
Sundown Towns
Creation of the KKK
KKK founded
1920’s Nativism and the Revival of the KKK
Red Summers – Tulsa
Remains found in search for 1921 Tulsa race massacre victims
1954 – Brown vs Board of Education
1955 – Emmitt Till is Murdered
August 28, 1955
December 1, 1955
Rosa Parks
1956 – The Clinton 12
Clinton High School
Lunch Counter Sit-ins
1961
“In the summer of 1961, two young African-American men decided to go swimming at one of Nashville’s municipal pools — one that was reserved by Jim Crow for whites only. Days later, the city closed all its public pools — and left them shut for three years.
Of the 22 municipal swimming pools Nashville operated at the time, seven were designated for blacks. One of those was in Hadley Park, barely a mile from the Freedom Rides office.
If they were going to swim that day, they were going to do it at Centennial Park — Nashville’s premiere public space — a park with a full-scale replica of the Parthenon right in the middle.
Hadley was lovely, too. Like Centennial, it had a bandshell, playing fields, shade trees, and ample space for picnics. But, as Lillard explained, the intent of the Civil Rights Movement was not to abandon what was good in black neighborhoods.
“The goal was to have dignity.”“
https://bittersoutherner.com/nashville-pools-jim-crow#.X4OTEWhKiUk
Easter of 1963 – Birmingham
Letter from Birmingham Jail
“Negro brothers smothering in an airtight cage of poverty in the midst of an affluent society; when you suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain to your six-year-old daughter why she can’t go to the public amusement park that has just been advertised on television, and see the tears welling up in her little eyes when she is told that Funtown is closed to colored children, and see the depressing clouds of inferiority begin to form in her little mental sky, and see her begin to distort her little personality by unconsciously developing a bitterness toward white people; when you have to concoct an answer for a five-year-old son who is asking in agonizing pathos: “Daddy, why do white people treat colored people so mean?” when you take a cross country drive and find it necessary to sleep night after night in the uncomfortable corners of your automobile because no motel will accept you;
June of 1963 – University of Alabama and Governor George Wallace
August 28, 1963 – “I have a Dream”
Freedom’s Ring
18 Days Later
John Lewis
For The First Time In 56 Years, A ‘Bloody Sunday’ Without John Lewis
1964 – Civil Rights Act
Some People Did Not Want it to Pass
At 7:40 on the evening of June 19, 1964, after the longest debate in its nearly 180-year history, the U.S. Senate passes the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The vote in favor of the bill is 73 to 27. Thirteen days later, on July 2, the U.S. House of Representatives passes the bill and President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the bill into law that same evening. Five hundred amendments were made to the bill and Congress debated the bill for 534 hours
1965 – Selma, Alabama
1965 – Voting Rights Act
1968 MLK Assassinated
1968 Olympics
1969 SEC Football
I am in the third grade – I watched this on our black and white TV:
My Little League Team in 1971
My Little League Team in 1972
What made the difference? Rather, WHO made the difference?
Who is This?
What did the Civil Rights Movement Achieve?
How do we remember our history and the KKK?
‘There will be lynchings’: How the Advertiser failed victims of racial terror
Our shame: The sins of our past laid bare for all to see
The Green Book: The Black Travelers’ Guide to Jim Crow America
Let’s Recap!
Assessment Questions
- What is Discrimination?
- What is Prejudice?
- What is Bigotry?
- What is the 15th Amendment?
- How did these terms impact African-Americans’ right to vote after the 15th Amendment was enacted?
Our Standard
Analyze the causes and effects of extremism, and identify the historical roots of terrorist attacks (e.g., PLO, IRA, Al-Qaeda, Taliban, ISIS, the Black Hand, KKK).
What am I learning today?
Ideology has driven some to extremes over the years. Why? What is the impact of their actions? The KKK is a great example of that. We we learn the history of the KKK and its impact on US History and the Civil Rights Movement.
Why am I learning this?
When you see the world’s events, you need to know where those events are happening and why. We need to know the history of the KKK and the Civil Rights Movement to understand how the actions of people in the past have shaped the world we live in today. Remember, history is change over time.
How will I know I learned this?
When you have knowledge of who the KKK was, what they stood for, and how our nation responded to their actions.
