How does protest change the world?

1963 - MLK 1965 - Malcolm X

1. Which person had the stronger argument? Why?

2. Which form of protest out of the ones we discussed today do you think was the most effective?

3. What form of protest do you think would be most effective today?

4. What are other ways to protest that we didn’t discuss today?

5. Are there any you would consider doing? If so, which ones?

Finish Notes - 9E

How does protest change the world?

Think about your bellringer paper from yesterday.

• What do you think needs to be changed in the world?

Next Step

• What would a successful change look like? What is the ultimate goal?

• What strategies or actions might make your change actually happen?

Back to Notes - More protest….more change

Little Rock Nine (1957)

• 9 African American students were to attend a previously all-white high school. The governor called in the national guard to stop them.

• Eisenhower supplied an armed escort for the students. They suffered great abuses while attending school despite the armed escort.

“RIOT”

What do you think when you hear the word “riot”?

University of Mississippi Desegregation (1962)

• James Meredith enrolled to go to University of Mississippi.

• The governor refused to let him enter.

• A group of U.S. Marshals to escorted Meredith to school.

• The result was a school-wide riot that resulted in 2 dead, 28 US Marshals suffering gunshot wounds, and 160 others injured.

Kennedy’s Response (1963)• Amid a “rising tide of discontent” JFK addressed the nation calling on congress

to pass new civil rights legislation.

• What do you think JFK meant by a rising tide of discontent? What was he trying to avoid?

Riots

• Harlem Riot of 1964 - Police Shooting

• Watts Riot of 1965 - Racial Tension due to police involvement/LA

• Detroit Riot of 1967 - Riot over Housing Segregation

• Nationwide Riots of 1967 - Various reasons

• King Riots - Due to the assassination of MLK

Assassinations

• JFK - 1964

• Malcolm X - 1965

• MLK - 1968

How do assassinations affect society? Are they a product of change or do they cause change or both?

Legal Changes

• Loving vs Virginia (1967) - Invalidated Laws prohibiting Interracial Marriage

• Civil Rights Act of 1964 - outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin

• Voting Rights Act of 1965 - Forbade literacy tests and allowed Federal gov’t to make sure African Americans weren’t disenfranchised.

• Fair Housing Act of 1968 - prohibits discrimination in the sale, rental and financing of dwellings based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin.

Quick Quiz

Helps me know what to review with you guys

Helps you know what you know and what you missed.

About the EOCStructure of the Exam (paper/pencil this year)

• 37 Questions = 45 minutes

• Break

• 37 Questions = 45 minutes

Covers ALL of US History (both semesters)

Counts as 15% of your grade in this class

About the EOC – Test Strategies

What was the Marshall Plan intended to do?

A. Rebuild war-ravaged Europe

B. Rescue starving Berliners behind a Soviet blockade

C. Unify the U.S. armed forces

D. Give more powers to the president to root out Communist spies in the United States

1 – Understand the Question

• What is the question ASKING?• What do you need to know to answer it?• What words/terms are unfamiliar?

2 – Eliminate half the options

3 – Check your answer for flow/logic

About the EOC – Test Strategies

Lunch counter sit-ins and the actions of freedom riders are examples of

A. steps taken in support of the Americans with Disabilities Act

B. programs dealing with affirmative action

C. violent acts by the Black Panthers

D. nonviolent attempts to oppose segregation

1 – Understand the Question

• What is the question ASKING?• What do you need to know to answer it?• What words/terms are unfamiliar?

2 – Eliminate half the options

3 – Check your answer for flow/logic

Process of Elimination1. Eliminate options you know to be incorrect.

2. Eliminate options that are completely unfamiliar.

3. Give each option of a question the "true-false test"

4. Question options that contain negative or absolute words (always, never, every, none)

5. "Look alike options": probably one is correct; choose the best but eliminate choices that mean basically the same thing, and thus cancel each other out

6. If two alternatives seem correct, compare them for differences, then refer to the stem to find your best answer

Social Changes What trends do we notice? What conclusions can we draw?

Making ConnectionsTrayvon Martin

Eric Garner

Michael Brown

Ferguson Riots

Freddie Gray

Baltimore Riots

Charleston Shooting

Sandra Bland

Making Connections

Civil Rights Expands to Other Groups

Who belongs to this group?

What changes has this group fought

for?

What actions has this group taken to achieve

the changes they wanted?

What successes has this group had?

How Does Protest Change the World?Write a short paragraph answering the following questions (1-2 complete sentences per question)

1. How did protest change the world during the civil rights era (both positively and negatively)?

2. How does protest change the world today (both positively and negatively)?

3. What ELSE can change the world? What are some things you can do to achieve the changes you want to see?