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Welcome, students!
Take your time to explore the timeline. Your task is to try to relate to one of the people or situations that you read about and write an essay about how it might connect to you and our thematic unit of Acceptance and Tolerance.
I CAN understand significant events and people, including minorities, in the major eras of history
I CAN understand that specific individuals and the values they held had an impact on history
I CAN understand concepts such as chronology, causality, change and conflict -
Brown v. Board of Education
The Supreme Court ruled that segregation in public schools was unconsitutional. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEQ1uG4PZcA http://www.pbs.org/wnet/supremecourt/rights/landmark_brown.html Photo Courtesy of U.S. Embassy The Hague on flickr -
Emmett Till is murdered
Fourteen year old Chicago native Emmett Till is brutally murdered for allegedly whistling at a white woman. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqW4WkPxJ5Y http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-death-of-emmett-till Photo Courtesy of Image Editor on flickr -
Rosa Parks Refuses to Give Up Her Seat
During the bus boycotts, Rosa Parks refused to move out of the "white only" section of the bus and give up her seat to a white man. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8A9gvb5Fh0 http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/rosa-parks Photo Courtesy of U.S. Embassy The Hague on flickr -
Little Rock Nine
Nine black students are blocked from entering Little Rock Central High School, resulting in President Eisenhower sending the National Guard to intervene. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oodolEmUg2g http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/central-high-school-integration Photo Courtesy of U.S. Embassy The Hague on flickr -
Woolworth Sit-In
Four black students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College stage a sit-in at Woolworth's lunch counter, where they were not allowed service. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xbbcjn4d1cE&t=11s http://americanhistory.si.edu/brown/history/6-legacy/freedom-struggle-2.html Photo Courtesy of Charlie Clay on flickr -
SNCC is Founded
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee is formed by students at Shaw University. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZE0a5-p9pg http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/sncc Photo Courtesy of Washington Area Spark on flickr -
March on Washington
A group of 200,000 people joined together for the March on Washinton, where they gathered at the Lincoln Memorial and heard Martin Luther King Jr. give his famous "I Have A Dream" speech. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vDWWy4CMhE http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/march-on-washington Photo Courtesy of U.S. Embassy The Hague on flickr -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into being, making all discrimination and segreation illegal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVMH5u6bPGA http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/civil-rights-act Photo Courtesy of Bluephi.net on flickr -
Assassination of Malcolm X
Founder of the Organization of Afro-American Unity and black nationalist, Malcom X is assassinated. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7i3XTHrUxo http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/malcolm-x-assassinated Photo Courtesy of Thomas Hawk on flickr -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 eliminated the literacy tests and poll taxes that made it almost imopssible for blacks to vote. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ2j8zSxPgU http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/voting-rights-act -
Thurgood Marshall Becomes a Justice of the Supreme Court
Thurgood Marshall becomes the first African American Justice of the Supreme Court. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UtxSIXr5yM http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/thurgood-marshall Photo Courtesy of The COM Library on flickr -
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated outside of his hotel room in Memphis by James Earl Ray. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXOGRI-5S9U http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/martin-luther-king-jr-assassination Photo Courtesy of U.S. Embassy The Hague on flickr -
Civil Rights Act of 1968
President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1968, which made it illegal to discriminate in the sale, rental, and financing of housing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk48DdNZzf8 http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/fair-housing-act Photo Courtesy of manhhai on flickr
