Transcript Pre-Class 5/3/10

Pre-Class
1. Grab
a Textbook please
2. Take
out your Emmett Till homework.
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5/3/10
Make sure your name is on it.
3. Are
there any volunteers who would like to share their
work?
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Sign Up under “Volunteers” on side board.
**Uniform policy, you aren’t in it, you get a demerit. No
excuses…
Welcome
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Today’s Agenda
1.
Pre-Class & Roll
Share Outs
Civil Rights Movement
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Today’s Objectives
1. To learn about one approach
to attaining equal civil rights
2. To address what we already
know about the C.R.M.
KWL
Non Violence vs. Violence
Wrap Up
Announcements:
Civil Rights Movement Test
May 14th (a week from
Friday)
KWL
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Draw a chart with three boxes in your notes.
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Step 1: What do we know? (1st box)
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With a partner create a list of all of things that you are familiar
with the Civil Rights Movement
Step 2: What do we want to know? (2nd box)
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With a partner, open your textbook to pages 756-784
Try to think about specifics and beyond. What do you want to
understand about the C.R.M.?
Pre-Class
5/04/10
Black people have faced discrimination and violence in
this region of the world since Bacon’s Rebellion in1676.
 Generations have suffered and died under a racist
belief that they are inferior, dangerous, and
untrustworthy.
Now there is a movement to change things, but the question is
how should we change things?!?!?!?
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Answer: What approach should the Civil Rights Movement
favor, violence or non-violence? Why do you feel this way?
Write a half-page reflection
BE ON TASK!
Participation Points!
Welcome!
Today’s Agenda:
1. Pre-class & Roll
2. Share Out
3. Notes
4. Wrap Up
5/4/10
Today’s Objectives:
To understand/answer:
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Why was nonviolence used in
the CRM?
How was nonviolence used in
the CRM?
What role did MLK, JFK etc.
play in the CRM?
Announcements:
 CRM Test Friday May 14th!
Where did the Nonviolent Approach in the CRM
Come From?
“A small body of determined
spirits fired by an unquenchable
faith in their mission can alter
the course of history.”
-- Mohandas Ghandi
 Ghandi had resisted British rule
in India, leading to India’s
independence
 Ghandi used two tactics:
1. Nonviolence
2. Civil Disobedience
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Core Ideas of Nonviolence in CRM
Nonviolence/Civility
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Avoid violence at all costs
Be the righteous person in the face of injustice
Disobedience
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The deliberate and public refusal to obey an unjust
law
More on Civil Disobedience
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“If we are arrested every day, if we are exploited every day, if we are
trampled over every day, don’t ever let anyone pull you so low as to
hate them … We must realize that so many people are taught to
hate us that they are not totally responsible for their own hate.”
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What does this quote mean to you?
Society has taught itself to hate/fear, don’t give them a reason to hate
you
How does being civil (nonviolent) and yet disobedient help you
win your cause?
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Who said this quote?
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (circa 1955)
Ghandi’s Influence on Dr. King
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Ghandi had lived/worked in
India a few decades before
the time of the CRM and Dr.
King (1920s-40s)
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His work (overcoming the
British Empire in India) was
legendary!
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Dr. King used Ghandi’s
example as an inspiration
for his nonviolent tactics
in the CRM
MLK & SCLC
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Dr. King gained a lot of publicity and fame as a leader
following the Montgomery Bus Boycott (more on this
later this week)
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In 1957 Dr. King helped to found the SCLC
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SCLC = Southern Christian Leadership Council
What does the SCLC do?
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The SCLC was a leading group in the CRM that helped to
organize civil rights activists
Trained members in nonviolent protests tactics, and focused
on obtaining voting rights
SCLC – Double Check/Comment on your Notes
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Write answers/comments on the side of your notes!
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Why would the SCLC train everyone in nonviolent protest
tactics?
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(hint: remember this came about after the successful bus boycott)
Why would the SCLC focus on securing voting rights for black
people?
Pre-Class
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What does Ghandi have to do with MLK?
Explain in 3 full lines.
5/5/10
The Goals of the CRM
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To end segregation
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To secure equal rights for all races
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To get the federal (national) government to support all of this
in writing as law.
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Remember, up until this point America didn’t have clear language
about equal rights laws.
Socially people were either indifferent, or believed in racial
stereotypes (black inferiority, blacks as dangerous, etc.)
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Examples: Civil Disobedience
Violent Backlashes against CRM Activists
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Freedom Rides (left) –
desegregated, interstate bus
rides through the South.
Whites attacked the buses!
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Beatings, firebombs, riots
How do their behaviors compare?
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How will America react upon seeing these images?
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Write comments in notes.
President John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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President Kennedy (JFK) was a supporter of
the civil rights movement.
JFK
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Gave executive orders to desegregate the federal
govt.
Appointed black Americans to federal court positions
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He couldn’t get the support of
congress/white southern politicians to pass
a civil rights law – what the movement
wanted from the beginning!
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How do you convince politicians to listen
and take notice of your demands?!?!
TAKE THE MESSAGE TO THEM!
March on Washington DC 1963
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250,000 people arrived
in the nation’s capital
outside of the Lincoln
Memorial
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One giant peaceful protest
– a symbol for change
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Dr. King delivers his “I
have a dream…”
speech
Aftermath (end of 1963-1964)
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Days after Dr. King delivered his speech of peace, an angry racist
white Southern group bombed the 16th St. Baptist Church in
Birmingham, AL (Sept. 1963)
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This killed 4 girls at Sunday School
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Kennedy was assassinated in November 1963
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Civil Rights Act 1964
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Banned discrimination in public places
Banned discrimination by employers
Strong enforcement powers (withholding of federal $$$)
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Protected against “loophole problems” of the past.
Tear it out! Exit Ticket @ The Door!
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Now you know the “ins and outs” of the non-violent
approach.
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What are the virtues of a non-violent approach how can it, in
some ways, be more effective than using violence to solve
problems/create change?
Write a half page. Show me what you’ve learned.
Separate sheet of paper, hand it to me @ the door