Transcript Civil Rights - Riverdale High School

Today’s Agenda
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Any Questions?
Let's Review our Bellwork....
Now...
Let’s Begin Today’s Lesson…..
What was Mark Twain saying?
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and
narrow-mindness, and many of our people
need it sorely on these accounts. Broad,
wholesome, charitable views of men and
things cannot be acquired by vegetating in
one little corner of the earth all one's
lifetime.” - Mark Twain, The Innocents
Abroad/Roughing It
Our Standards Today
Civil Rights
Students analyze the development and evolution of civil rights for women and
minorities and how these advances were made possible by expanding rights
under the Constitution.
GC.46 Describe the Civil Rights Movement and analyze resulting legislation and
legal precedents. (C, H, P)
GC.47 Describe the women’s rights movement and analyze resulting legislation
and legal precedents. (C, H, P)
GC48 Identify legislation and legal precedents that established rights for the
disabled, Hispanics, American Indians, Asians, and other minority groups,
including the tensions between protected categories (e.g., race, women,
veterans) and non-protected ones (United States v. Carolene Products,
Adarand Constructors v. Pena). (C, H, P)
Primary Documents and Supporting Texts to Consider: excerpts from Seneca
Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolution 1848; “I Have a Dream”
speech, and Letter from a Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our objectives today
Today's Objectives
The students will describe the 15th amendment and the
tactics used to circumvent it in an effort to deny
African Americans the right to vote. The students will
understand how people over the years have been
denied their rights and the steps America has taken to
instill these rights.
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)
Jim Crow Laws and “Separate But Equal”
I downloaded a couple of videos, one on “Jim
Crow” laws and one on “Separate but
Equal”
Sundown Signs
“Versions of Cullman’s (Alabama) old sundown sign hung beside
county roads well into the 1970s, and all of them repeated the
message that the travel writer Carl Carmer saw when he visited
Cullman in the late 1920s:”
“.......... Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on You in This Town.”
“Race in the South in the Age of Obama” - New York Times
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 neverending.
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)
Movie Time
Before and during the Civil Rights movement
was terrible times in our country. How bad
was it?
Lets see how bad it was…. Movie Time
Video Time
Lets watch a video... The Hyphen
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)
Who is this man?
Is this a good hint?
Henry Ford
The founder of the modern American automotive industry
was also the 1920s king of American anti-Semitism. Henry
Ford is best known for being the inventor of the assembly line
method of manufacturing automobiles, but he was also an avid
fan of “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion”, the famous Russian
anti-Semitic forgery. He was so convinced of its authenticity
that he published it in serial form in his newspaper, The
Dearborn Independent. He later took the Independent’s
Articles and published them as a book, “The International
Jew: The World’s Foremost Problem”. In it, Ford blamed
the Jews for everything from pornography to alcoholism to
communism and beyond. The book proved to be rather
popular, and was especially so in 1930s Germany; so much
that Adolf Hitler himself awarded Ford a medal, and Ford is the
only American mentioned in “Mein Kampf”.
The Clinton 12
Clinton High School
http://www.tn4me.org/article.cfm/a_id/111/min
or_id/26/major_id/11/era_id/8
What was this Story about?
Emmitt Till
Emmett Louis "Bobo" Till (July 25, 1941 - August 28, 1955) was
an African-American teenager from Chicago, Illinois who died in
what has been characterized as a "brutal murder" in a region of
Mississippi known as the Mississippi Delta in the small town of
Money in Leflore County. His murder was one of the key events
that energized the nascent American Civil Rights Movement.
The main suspects were acquitted but later admitted to
committing the crime. Till's mother had an open casket funeral
to let everyone see how her son had been brutally killed. He
had been shot and beaten; he was then thrown into the
Tallahatchie River with a 75-pound cotton gin fan tied to his
neck with barbed wire as a weight. His body stayed in the river
for three days until it was discovered and retrieved by two
fishermen.
Any UT Fans Here?
He is from my hometown
A couple of videos for you UT fans....
Condredge Holloway
Condredge was the first black quarterback in the SEC
He played from 1972 to 1974 at Tennessee. He was
also the first black baseball player in UT history.
He still owns UT's longest hitting streak at 27 games.
He was selected to Tennessee's All-Century Baseball
Team, making him the only UT student-athlete named
to All-Century squads in both baseball and football.
Where did he play high school baseball, football and
basketball? What was his favorite team growing
up?
Were all Americans Equal?
Malcolm X made a speech. We will listen to a
few minutes of it.
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 has debated the bill for 534 hours.
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 also creates the
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
(EEOC)
Martin Luther King Jr.
Had a Dream...
Here is his famous speech...
Alabama Governor George Wallace blocks the
doorway to Foster Auditorium – No Black Students
are going to the University of Alabama.
Some people did not want Any Change
Birmingham, Alabama, was a bad place
duringthe Civil Rights Movement
Another video...
1968
I was 8 years old, in the second grade. This
year changed our country forever. I
remember some of it.
Segregation in Childrens' Books?
Children’s Books and Segregation in the Workplace
by Steven Vallas PhD
As children, many of us encountered Richard Scarry’s book,
“What Do People Do all Day?” A classic kid’s book, it
uses animals to represent the division of labor that exists
in “Busytown.” The book is an example of a brilliant piece
of analysis by sociologist John Levi Martin (full text).
To oversimplify greatly: Martin analyzes nearly 300 children’s
books and finds that there is a marked tendency for these
texts to represent certain animals in particular kinds of
jobs. Jobs that allow the occupant to exercise
authority over others tend to be held by predatory
animals (especially foxes), but never by “lower”
animals (mice or pigs).
Do You See it Now?
Immigration – Hot Topic Today
Our Statue Of Liberty has a poem, The New
Colossus, that ends with:
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
Do all Americans live by this creed today? Our final video of
the lesson....
Group Time....
Go to your groups in an orderly and timely manner.
Anchors – You are your state's election commission
chairman.
Recorders – You are a legislator writing a law on your state's
voting requirements.
Captains – You are the governor of your state.
Each State must develop their own voter registration laws
and requirements. We will then share each state's laws
and discuss and debate them.
What Did We Learn Today?
On a separate sheet of paper, answer these questions for
me to take up and review.
1) What is Discrimination?
2) What is Prejudice?
3) What is Bigotry?
4) What is the 15th Amendment?
5) How did these terms impact African-Americans' right
to vote after the 15th Amendment was enacted?
Our Standards Today
Civil Rights
Students analyze the development and evolution of civil rights for women and
minorities and how these advances were made possible by expanding rights
under the Constitution.
GC.46 Describe the Civil Rights Movement and analyze resulting legislation and
legal precedents. (C, H, P)
GC.47 Describe the women’s rights movement and analyze resulting legislation
and legal precedents. (C, H, P)
GC48 Identify legislation and legal precedents that established rights for the
disabled, Hispanics, American Indians, Asians, and other minority groups,
including the tensions between protected categories (e.g., race, women,
veterans) and non-protected ones (United States v. Carolene Products,
Adarand Constructors v. Pena). (C, H, P)
Primary Documents and Supporting Texts to Consider: excerpts from Seneca
Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolution 1848; “I Have a Dream”
speech, and Letter from a Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our objectives today
Today's Objectives
The students will describe the 15th amendment and the
tactics used to circumvent it in an effort to deny
African Americans the right to vote. The students will
understand how people over they years have been
denied their rights and the steps America has taken to
instill these rights.