Friday: Final Civil Rights Essay

Use the evidence from your assignments (found on links on this blog) to answer the following question:

To what extent was violence responsible for the success of the civil rights movement? Provide EVIDENCE to support your answer.

Things to consider:

- Birmingham

-Emmit Till

-Montgomery Bus Boycott

-Malcom X and Martin Luther king Jr. 

-Pre-Civil Rights violence in the south

Here are some classwork photos that may help:

Thursday 5/15: Birmingham Violence

Use the documents and video below to create a Side by side chart of violent and non-violent actions that took place in Birmingham, AL, in 1963.

Then, on the same sheet, determine which was more effective in Birmingham- Violence or non-violence?

Video: Bull Connor & Birmingham

Documents: Birmingham, 1963

Last Friday's work (5/8): Violence in the South

Use THIS FILE LINKED HERE to complete the assignment below:
Use the documents to come up with a minimum of THREE methods that Southern Whites used to oppress and control African Americans in the south prior to the civil rights movement. SUpport each method with documents, describing how they show that method. 

Tuesday, May 12th: King and X

Use the file linked here to complete the assignment above. There should be three sections, one for each topic that MLK and MX are compared on. 

Monday's assignment

Set up your paper as illustrated in the picture. Then, watch this video (55 min)  Gather evidence for the boxes from the video. Then, use your evidence to answer the question on the board on the back of your paper.

1950's America

Comparison Journal- Black and White 1950's America
Create a venn diagram on your OWN paper that looks like this:

Watch these two movies side by side (May want to turn the sound off)

1950's black America

1950's White America Town life
1950's white america family life

Use the two movies to find similarities (center of the map) and differences (outside of the map) between white and black america in the 1950s.

Whiteboards Pro/Con Wind Energy