Introduction:
The post-war era marked a period of unprecedented energy against the second-class citizenship accorded to African Americans in many parts of the nation. Resistance to racial segregation and discrimination with strategies such as civil disobedience, nonviolent resistance, marches, protests, boycotts, "freedom rides," and rallies received national attention as newspaper, radio, and television reporters and cameramen documented the struggle to end racial inequality.
One
hundred years after the Civil War, blacks and their white allies still pursued
the battle for equal rights in every area of American life. The black struggle
for civil rights also inspired other liberation and rights movements,
including those of Native Americans, Latinos, and women, and African Americans
have lent their support to liberation struggles in Africa.
Task:
“All men are created equal…”
In this webquest, you will be working independently in and out of class. In your task, you will explore Web pages that will be useful, and provide information on a variety of groups and individuals from throughout the country, who helped build a movement that attacked oppression at its core -- a segregated system that served to maintain inequality between the races.
The Process:
You will begin by getting some background information on the Civil Rights Movement. You will use the internet to locate, gather and process information. You will investigate, express findings, and finally interpret in your own words the history of the Civil Rights Movement.
The Topics:
Choose one of the following topics below and submit your choice to your teacher for approval. Identify and develop at least five significant ideas to explain your topic.
Birminghan Church Bombing Brown v. Board of Education
Freedom Riders Montgomery Bus Boycott & Rosa Parks
Vernon John Malcolm X
Martin Luther King Black Panthers
March on Washington – Aug. 28, ’63 Women and the movement
Civil Rights Act of 1964 Greenboro Sit-Ins
KKK The American Indians & Civil Rights
Laws & organizations Medgar Evers
Albany Movement Voting Rights Act of 1965
Nation of Islam (Pre 1965) National Organization for Women
Betty Friedan Feminism
Roe v Wade Equal Rights Amendment
Cesar Chavez United Farm Workers
La Raza Unida Party Japanese American Citizens League
American Indian Movement (AIM) Indian Education Act of 1972
Resources:
http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761580647
Encarta Encyclopedia: Civil Rights Movement in the U.S.
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/
We Shall Overcome
http://library.trinity.wa.edu.au/camp/head/discrim.htm
Racial Discrimination and Civil Rights 1960s USA - Links
Civil Rights Movement Veterans
http://eduscapes.com/42 explore/civilrights.htm
Civil Rights
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAcivilrights.htm
http://www.civilrightsmuseum.org
http://www-dept.usm.edu/~mcrohb
Civil Rights and other links
http://www.stanford.edu/group/blackpanthers/index.shtml
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/authors/DAVISangela.html
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAcarmichael.htm
http://www.hippy.com/php/article.php?sid=76
http://search.eb.com/blackhistory/micro/71/76.html
http://www.geocities.com/athens/aegean/8443/pa.html
Black Panthers
www.law.cornell.edu/topics/civil_rights.html
www.eeoc.gov/facts/fs-race.html
Legal Information and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
www.naacp.org/past_future/naacptimeline.shtml
NAACP – Foundation & History
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/99sep/9909friedan.htm
http://www.geocities.com/athens/aegean/8443/pa.html
http://nimbus.ocis.temple.edu/~rkarras/winters2.htm
http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/women/
Women’s Rights
www.msnbc.com/onair/msnbc/timeandagain/archive/civright
http://www.abbeville.com/civilrights/washington.asp
March on Washington
http://home.earthlink.net/~civilrightsreport
Civil Rights: A Status Report and other links
http://members.tripod.com/infinite805/riots.html
1965 Watts Riot
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart9.html
The Civil Rights Era
http://www.ericfacility.net/ericdigests/ed314228.html
http://dizzy.library.arizona.edu/branches/spc/udall/indian_htm.html
The American Indians and Civil Rights
http://clnet.ucr.edu/research/chavez/
http://larazaunida.tripod.com/hist.htm
Mexican American Civil Rights Movement
http://eserver.org/race/blacklash.txt
Blacklash? Addresses the issues of gay rights
Japanese American Civil Rights Movement
http://socsci.colorado.edu/~jonesem/montgomery.html
The Montgomery Bus Boycott Page (Links)
Greenboro Sit-Ins: The Launch of the Civil War
http://kingstonuu.org/mlk-photo0-0.htm
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/multimedia/articles/pkcfl_image.html
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/multimedia/articles/pkcfl_image.html
http://search.eb.com/blackhistory/micro/199/92.html
Medgar Evers
http://www.brothermalcolm.net/
http://www.cmgww.com/historic/malcolm/
Malcolm X
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/mlk/
http://www.nobel.se/peace/laureates/1964/king-bio.html
Martin Luther King
http://www.abbeville.com/civilrights/
Images of the Civil Rights Movement
Conclusion:
Although full equality has not yet been reached, the civil rights movement did put fundamental reforms in place. Legal segregation as a system of racial control was dismantled, and blacks were no longer subject to the humiliation of Jim Crow laws. Public institutions were opened to all. Blacks achieved the right to vote and the influence that went with that right in a democracy. Those were indeed long steps toward racial equality.