THE FIGHT CONTINUESMacCarthy

Essential Questions

How did non-violent protests play a role in the Civil Rights movement?

Create a brace map showing different types of non violent protest and their effects?

What are the similarities and differences between the ideas and tactics of Martin Luther King/the SNCC and Malcolm X /the Nations of Islam?

Create a Venn Diagram to compare differences and similarities

JFK Robert Kennedy helped MLK

JFK gained support from African American voters helping him to win Election

JFK did not want to upset Southern Democrats with issues over Civil Rights, much like Truman

Freedom Rides Interstates Busses and Public facilities

Black in front, whites in back

Violence

JFK sends federal marshals for protection

Success

Birmingham Segregation in Birmingham, AL

Bull Connor = Violence

MLK arrested, Letter from a Birmingham Jail

SCLC recruit children(mostly teenagers)

Dogs, fire hoses, and television

March on Washington Protest at Lincoln Memorial, why there?

250,000 people, from all over the country

“I have a Dream”

JFK promised to support Civil Rights

A Loss and a Gain JFK assassinated Nov. 22, 1963

Country saddened, Brainpop

Lyndon Johnson becomes President

Promises to continue JFK’s wishes

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Voting Freedom Summer-White college student

helping w/voter registration in Mississippi Violence

Selma March to Montgomery State Troopers, horses, and TV

Johnson involved Voting Rights Act

Changes Johnson’s Great Society Brianpop

Race riots, lack of power and opportunity

King assassinated More riots and deaths

Peaceful protest not the way

Changes Black power

Nation of Islam

Malcolm X Brainpop

The struggle still continues

Essential Questions How did non-violent protests play a role

in the Civil Rights movement?

What are the similarities and differences between the ideas and tactics of Martin Luther King/the SNCC and Malcolm X /the Nations of Islam?