Unit Number:
Unit 5
Week of:
Monday, March 8, 2021
- Film:
- In the Heat of the Night (1967)
DVD 01711
- Read:
- ** Henry Louis Gates, Colored People: A Memoir (New Kork: Knopf, 1994)
- Excerpts from Ebony, May 1946 and January 1969
Unit Outline:
- From Brown
- "From "Freedom Now" to "Black Power"
- Freedom Now Phase
- Brown V. Board of Education (1954)
- Little Rock Ark. (1957)
- Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
- Martin Luther King's philosophy
- Birmingham (1963)
- Civil Rights Act (1963)
- Selma (1965)
- Voting Rights Act (1965)
- Freedom Now Phase
- To Black
- Black Power Phase, circa 1965
- Malcolm X
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
- based in community organizing
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
- Stokely Carmichael
- Defines Black Power as he uses it
- Malcolm X
- Black Power Phase, circa 1965
- "From "Freedom Now" to "Black Power"
Why should we Study the Civil Rights Movement?
It's remarkable success
It's failure to accomplish many of its goals
A model for citizen participation from the 1960s to the present day
Freeedom Now phase of the Civil Rights Movement (roughly WW II - mid-Sixties
Black Power phase (roughly mid-Sixties - 1970s)