African-American Civil Rights Movement (1954–68) The African-American Civil Rights Movement or 1960s Civil Rights Movement encompasses social movements in the United States whose goals were to end racial segregation and discrimination against black Americans and to secure legal recognition and federal protection of the citizenship rights enumerated in the Constitution and federal law. This article covers the phase of the movement between 1954 and 1968, particularly in the South. A wave of inner city riots in black communities from 1964 through 1970 undercut support from the white community. The emergence of the Black Power movement, which lasted from about 1966 to 1975, challenged the established black leadership for its cooperative attitude and its nonviolence, and instead demanded political and economic self-sufficiency. During the same time as African Americans were being disenfranchised, white Democrats imposed racial segregation by law. Violence against blacks increased, with numerous lynchings through the turn of the century.
Education Resources from the Library of Congress. The Library of Congress. (n.d.). Retrieved from The Library of Congress provides free classroom materials for teachers. They also provide professional development tools. The Library of Congress offers classroom materials and professional development to help teachers use primary sources from the Library''s vast digital collections. For Learners of All Ages Read.govResources and opportunities to celebrate the wonder of reading For Teachers Teacher ResourcesFree resources to help teachers effectively use primary sources from the Library's vast digital collections in their teaching Lesson PlansTeacher-created lesson plans using Library of Congress primary sources
Miss K's English lessons: 2- jeux/activités en ligne Quelques activités pour apprendre/réviser les loisirs en anglais! Quulques activités pour bien réviser les couleurs en anglais!! (cliquez sur les images!) sur cette page, essayez de dire de quelle couleur sont écrits les mots! c'est le même principe ici, sous forme de jeu! Attention, c'est chronométré! (activités trouvées @ echalk.co.uk) Combien de verbes connaissez-vous en anglais? A few webistes pages to help you learn or revise how to tell the time in English! Quelques sites pour vous aider à apprendre ou réviser à dire l'heure en anglais! Cliquez sur ce lien pour jouer à un jeu en ligne! Il faut cliquer sur les "fusées" pour faire éclater les feux d'artifice sur Londres! a large choice of online winter games! Pour les 6ème en priorité (mais les 4ème ont le droit de réviser aussi!!)
The CNN Freedom Project: Ending Modern-Day Slavery - CNN.com Blogs (n.d.) History apps archives- Best apps for kids. Retrieved from This is a resource where students can use apps to learn various subject. It is designed for various grade levels. JFK Challenge is a wonderful and well-designed app that may spark a life-long love of history in children. It also is a great source of information about two very important ... The Great Inventors will help kids from preschool through early elementary school learn basic information about the history of common inventions and their inventors. Reviewed and recommended, these apps are a fun way for kids to learn about our American presidents anytime of year. Presidents Challenge is a fun and diverting way to memorize the names of the presidents of the United States in order. Another wonderful Oceanhouse Media digital book that teaches children all about dinosaurs with a variety of fun facts, rhyming passages, and vivid illustrations. Moose & Zebra are back again and this time they are teaching children about dinosaurs. Trail of Tears is a history app that is full of great information, pictures, and timelines that reviews the events affecting various Indian tribes from 1815-1860.
Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement -- Literacy Tests Literacy Tests & Voter Applications Alabama Georgia Louisiana: Mississippi South Carolina Background Today, most citizens register to vote without regard to race or color by signing their name and address on something like a postcard. Prior to passage of the federal Voting Rights Act in 1965, Southern states maintained elaborate voter registration procedures deliberately designed to deny the vote to nonwhites. This process was often referred to as a "literacy test," a term that had two different meanings — one specific and one general. The more general use of "literacy test" referred to the complex, interlocking systems used to deny Afro-Americans (and in some regions, Latinos and Native Americans) the right to vote so as to ensure that political power remained exclusively white-only. Poll taxes. While in theory there were standard state-wide registration procedures, in real-life the individual county Registrars and clerks did things their own way. — © Bruce Hartford
Reconstruction - 1900 Digital Interactive Notebook Teaching Ideas 4U by Amy Mezni. (2020, December). Retrieved from www.teachingideas4u.com. A digital interactive notebook. It covers resources and lesson plans about Reconstruction. Reconstruction – The Spanish – American War Digital Interactive Notebook Unit This resource is a Growth of the Nation DIGITAL Interactive Notebook for upper elementary. This unit covers American History from Reconstruction – The Spanish- American War, or events from about 1865 – 1900. The file is 225 pages long and includes a complete answer key and a unit assessment. Please note, this unit includes the same activities as my Reconstruction – 1900 U.S. Digital pages can be used without cutting or gluing. There are 67 colored graphic organizers, and those same organizers are also included in black and white. A unit assessment is included in Google Forms. Are the units editable? The topics and questions are not editable. The organizers have text boxes placed on top of them, so they are ready for student use. What is included in the unit? Included are graphic organizers, primary source document studies, and other activities. Freedmen: Were They Really Free? How to Get the Files Customer Tips:
"Black Power" Era The impressive March on Washington in the summer of 1963 has been remembered as one of the great successes of the Civil Rights Movement, a glorious high point in which a quarter of a million people—black and white—gathered at the nation's capital to demonstrate for "freedom now." But for many African Americans, especially those living in inner-city ghettos who discovered that nonviolent boycotts and sit-ins did little to alter their daily lives, the great march of 1963 marked only the first stage of a new, more radical phase of the Civil Rights Movement. You probably just finished reading the first chapter of the Civil Rights Movement. (Hint, hint.) Isn't it incredible how much had been accomplished by civil rights activists from World War II to the 1963 March on Washington? Isn't it staggering just how much had been sacrificed, how high the stakes had been raised, and how widespread the movement had become? Let's quickly review some highlights. How can this be? Not exactly.
South Carolina, the 12th colony: Lesson for kids. (2022). Retrieved from aid of South Carolina becoming a colony. Covers agriculture and major cities. Charles Town At first, the colony was located in an area called Albemarle Point. But later it would be moved to Charles Town, named after the king of England at the time, King Charles II. Charles Town became quite a busy place, because it had harbors where ships could easily sail in and out. Today, this area is the town of Charleston, and you can probably guess where the town's name comes from! So if the colony was originally one large area called Carolina, how did North and South Carolina become divided? Colonial Agriculture Along the coastal areas of South Carolina, the landscape is very swampy and wet. Further inland, crops like cotton and tobacco were commonly grown in colonial South Carolina. Colonial Life So what would your life be like if you lived in colonial South Carolina? You might help out in the house as well, creating things like candles from beeswax and cloth from wool to make clothes. Lesson Summary
Desegregation The Civil Rights Movement is sometimes defined as a struggle against racial segregation that began in 1955 when Rosa Parks, the "seamstress with tired feet," refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Alabama. Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 Supreme Court case that attacked the notion of "separate but equal," has also been identified as the catalyst for this extraordinary period of organized boycotts, student protests, and mass marches. These legendary events, however, did not cause the modern Civil Rights Movement, but were instead important moments in a campaign of direct action that began two decades before the first sit-in demonstration. The story of the American Civil Rights Movement is one of those tales that is told again and again and again, often with a few protagonists, a couple of key events, and one dramatic conclusion. Right? Well, not really. Absolutely. So, when did that movement emerge and how? Nope. Without a doubt!
(2022). Create a history timeline - A book in time. Retrieved from www.abookintime.com.. This website provides students with items needed to sort through history. They can then create their own timelines to get a visual of what event happened and when. There are lots of good reasons why your students should create a History Timeline. First, history timelines help kids sort out what happened when in history. They can get an idea of what famous persons lived at about the same time in history, even if they lived on opposite parts of the globe. With one glance, they can see the progression of people and events through the years, helping them to better understand how one (or more) person’s actions affected the world, and vice versa–how a world event affected, and possibly changed the lives, of one or more people. The process of putting a Timeline together is a great way for kids to review their history topics. As a teacher, you can use this opportunity to ask students questions about the timeline figure they are placing, letting the students tell the story behind each picture. And when the history year is done, students have a fun, scrapbook-style memory of everything they have learned. Create a Blank Timeline Book Create Timeline Figures U.S.
From NY to Texas, KKK recruits with candies and fliers Your video will begin momentarily. Ku Klux Klan recruitment fliers are turning up on driveways across the countryFliers, usually left with candies, appear to be part of a wider recruitment effortThe Klan may be seizing on a time when race and immigration are dominant issues, some say (CNN) -- Carlos Enrique Londoño laughs at the Ku Klux Klan recruitment flier recently left on the driveway of his suburban New York home. It's unlikely the group would accept him. "I'm Colombian and dark-skinned," said Londoño, a painter and construction worker who has lived in Hampton Bays on Long Island for 30 years. The flier was tucked into a plastic bag along with a membership application, the address for the KKK national office in North Carolina, a list of beliefs and three Jolly Rancher candies. Gen. Actors in the silent film "The Birth of a Nation," released in 1915, portrayed Ku Klux Klan members dressed in full regalia and riding horses. Klan members march in a parade in Washington in 1927.
Reconstruction Era Facts for Kids. History for Kids. (2022, January 11). Retrieved from Great website for teaching Reconstruction Era. The website also has free resource for other famous events in history. During the Reconstruction era, people in the United States were trying to find a way to include African Americans. The first United States soldiers arrived at slaveholding territories and black people escaped and some went into free states. During this time, Congress made three amendments that gave rights to black people forever. Reconstruction was the period following the Civil War. African Americans helped to destroy slavery. The main goal of Reconstruction was to reintegrate Southern states that had been part of the Confederacy back into the USA. After this, more radical Republicans won. But then, within 10 years, there were huge changes done by reactionary forces like the Ku Klux Klan and Confederate veterans who stopped this from happening. Rules, Laws, and Codes The “Black Code” was a law that said how African Americans should behave and what they could and could not do after they were freed from slavery. In the states in which people used to be slaves, the black codes were used.