Civil Rights Story

3/25-3/26

On Monday, I missed history because I was finishing up my long-composition.
Yesterday in history we put ourselves into groups to look at the Ten Point Program of the Black Panthers, an African American extremist group. We looked at the ten demands and summarized each one and decided whether or not they were reasonable. Then we talked about the first few as a class.

3/21-3/22

Yesterday in history we finished filling in our document sheets from Wednesday's class before breaking for lunch. After lunch we watched/ listened to Martin Luther King's  "I Have a Dream" speech. Then we talked about whether or not blacks and whites are equal today.
Today in history we looked at a picture of the march for voting rights in Selma, Alabama. We wrote down what we thought of it and the different elements it contained. Then we learned about the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

A. Philip Randolph

3/14-3/15

Yesterday in history we took notes on the sit-in tactic of the Civil Rights Movement. Then we watched a video about the sit-ins that took place in the Woolworth's in Greensboro, NC
Today in history we took notes on the freedom rides and then watched a video of people involved talking about their experiences on and around the buses.

3/12-3/13

Yesterday we had a sub for history and watched a video about discrimination and racism in the 1950's and 60's. It talked mainly about Emmett Till and the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Today in history we spent about half the class talking about the Little Rock Nine and then the rest of the class watching a video about it.

3/5-3/6

Yesterday in history we broke up into groups of three and looked at different documents about the Brown v. Board of Education case. Then, after answering the questions that went with our document, we got into new groups with people who had different documents and shared all of our information.
Today in history we watched a video on Emmett Till and his murder. Watching this video was really frustrating and shocking. It was clearly those two men who killed him and yet they got off scot-free because the body might not have been Emmett's. Even after the men confessed nothing happened to them! How can that be? It's ridiculous.

3/1-3/4

Friday was a half day and we only had A,B and C periods, so no history. Today in history we looked at the Scottsboro Troals and On groups of four wrote journal entries from different participants in the trials.