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Fifth Grade Social Studies Looking at Unit 8 Overcoming the Past: The Age of Civil Rights March 10, 2009
Importance of Technology Television & space exploration (H8d) Importance of visual imagery: – During WWII, people saw footage in newsreels – During Vietnam & the Civil Rights Movement, people saw footage in television – in their living rooms – Beginning of nearly-immediate access to information
Rosa Parks Student interview with Mrs. Parks shortly before her 1995 death: http://teacher.scholastic.com/rosa/interview.htm#brave http://teacher.scholastic.com/rosa/interview.htm#brave Detroit News’s coverage of Mrs. Parks’s life: http://www.detnews.com/2005/specialreport/0510/25/index.htm http://www.detnews.com/2005/specialreport/0510/25/index.htm Rosa Parks Library & Museum in Montgomery, AL: http://montgomery.troy.edu/rosaparks/museum/ http://montgomery.troy.edu/rosaparks/museum/ http://www.princeton.edu/~bsu/New %20Pictures/Rosa%20Parks.jpg http://www.congressionalgoldme dal.com/images/RosaParksFro mAlGore.gif http://www.achievement.org/achie vers/par0/large/par0-003.jpg
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The King Papers Project @ Stanford: http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/ http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/ Kid-Friendly MLK Biography from the Library of Congress: http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/king http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/king Slide Show from later in MLK’s life at Scholastic: http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/indepth/mlk/news/index.asp?article=previews# http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/indepth/mlk/news/index.asp?article=previews# Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site: http://www.nps.gov/malu/ http://www.nps.gov/malu/ The King Center for Non-Violent Social Change: http://www.thekingcenter.org/ http://www.thekingcenter.org
Protest Movements Image: http://crmvet.org/images/imgstrug.htm - cotton pickers on strike in Orangeburg, SC in 1963http://crmvet.org/images/imgstrug.htm Why is this image significant? * What events does it tie together? Why is this image significant? * What events does it tie together?
Image: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/haventohome/timeline/images/_cards/1970_075_card.jpg Taken in 1965http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/haventohome/timeline/images/_cards/1970_075_card.jpg Why is this image significant? * What do you notice about the people in the image? Why is this image significant? * What do you notice about the people in the image? Protest Movements
What do people in Vietnam today call this conflict? Who’s Who of the Vietnam conflict: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/viet nam/whos/index.html http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/viet nam/whos/index.html Timeline of US involvement (teacher reference: http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps /vietnam/timeline.htm http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps /vietnam/timeline.htm Information for teachers (from a Vietnam Veterans’ Organization) & a “virtual Wall”: http://www.teachvietnam.org/ http://www.teachvietnam.org/ Photographic story of the conflict from the National Archives: http://www.archives.gov/education/l essons/vietnam-photos/. http://www.archives.gov/education/l essons/vietnam-photos/ http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/vietnam- photos/images/marines-on-tank.gif
Brown v. Board of Education Complete text of Brown ruling (for exposure – not as a reading lesson): http://www.nationalcenter.org/brown.htmlhttp://www.nationalcenter.org/brown.html Actual document: http://www.archives.gov/historical-docs/doc- content/images/brown-v-board-of-education-m.jpghttp://www.archives.gov/historical-docs/doc- content/images/brown-v-board-of-education-m.jpg Contemporary articles from the Topeka, Kansas Capitol-Journal, as well as coverage of the 50 th anniversary of the ruling: http://www.cjonline.com/indepth/brown/ http://www.cjonline.com/indepth/brown/ » http://www.tolerance.org/teach/magazine/features.jsp?p=0&is=34&ar=485 http://www.tolerance.org/teach/magazine/features.jsp?p=0&is=34&ar=485 » http://www.tolerance.org/teach/magazine/features.jsp?p=0&is=34&ar=491 http://www.tolerance.org/teach/magazine/features.jsp?p=0&is=34&ar=491 http://www.nps.gov/brvb
Civil Rights Act & Voting Rights Act Civil Rights Act: Signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson in 1964. – Equal access to public accommodations – Demanded school integration – Ended discriminatory hiring practices Voting Rights Act: Signed into law by President Johnson in 1965. – Reinforced 15 th amendment – Outlawed literacy tests & other discriminatory pre-voting measures Image of the Civil Rights Act: http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=97 http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=97 Document-based lesson plan on Civil Rights Act: Image of the Civil Rights Act: http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=97 http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=97 Image of the Voting Rights Act: http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?doc=100 http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?doc=100 Introduction to Voting Rights Act: http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/voting/intro/intro.php http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/voting/intro/intro.php
Passing the 24 th Amendment (1962-1964) “There can be no one too poor to vote.” ~ LBJ Library of Congress mini-presentation: http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/modern/jb_ modern_polltax_1.html http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/modern/jb_ modern_polltax_1.html 1964 article from Time magazine: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9 171,897070,00.html http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9 171,897070,00.html Image of the Congressional resolution calling for the amendment: http://nara.cyclecounters.org/24th_Amendmen t_Pg1of1_AC.jpg http://nara.cyclecounters.org/24th_Amendmen t_Pg1of1_AC.jpg
Resources! http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/rfkonmlkdeath.html – RFK’s speech on the night of MLK’s assassination - semi-commercial site http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/civilrights/cr-exhibit.html – Voices of Civil Rights online exhibit from the Library of Congress – begins with internment of Japanese-Americans and goes through current disability activism – includes documentary images & modern commentary from activists http://photos.state.gov/galleries/usinfo-photo/39/civil_rights_07/index.html – Annotated images from America.Gov http://crmvet.org/ – Homepage of the Civil Rights Movement veterans’ organization – includes first-hand accounts of the Movement, along with numerous images, timelines, news reports, and more http://crmvet.org/images/imgga.htm – Images & narrative particular to the Albany Movement & subsequent Civil Rights actions in Georgia http://www.time.com/time/time100/scientist/profile/farnsworth.html – Fascinating article about Philo Farnsworth, the “real” inventor of television http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trm022.html – Maya Lin’s original designs for the Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial Remember! These are only suggested resources. Make sure to preview these sites before sharing them with your students. You know your students better than I do!
Resources for Integration Philo Farnsworth and Television Ellen Sturm Niz Freedom on the Menu Carole Boston Weatherford The Wall Eve Bunting 10,000 Days of Thunder Philip Caputo The Civil Rights Freedom Train Bentley Boyd Rosa Nikki Giovanni Linda Brown, You Are Not Alone Joyce Carol Thomas, ed. Young Thurgood Marshall Eric Carpenter