1. Central Idea of article “Civil Rights Movement: An Overview”
The Civil Rights Movement that had the intentions of securing African American’s opportunities for basic privileges and rights of U.S citizenship.
The Civil Rights Movement
NAACP
Rosa Parks
MLK Jr.
Brown v. Board of Ed.
Riots at Little Rock
Organized boycotts
Southern states
Montgomery, Alabama
Objective & Informational
Central Idea of article “Civil Rights Movement: An Overview”

2. LO: SWBAT determine the central idea of The Little Rock Nine: Struggle for Integration and analyze its development over the course of the text via key details, as well as provide an objective summary. (RI 8.2)
Summary of “Civil Rights Movement: An Overview” using Central Idea circle diagram:
In the Scholastic article, “Civil Rights Movement: An Overview,” the author provides an objective explanation of the movement’s intentions, which were to secure African American’s opportunities for basic privileges and rights of U.S citizenship. Many people such as Rosa Parks, Brown v. Board of Education, and Martin Luther King Jr. were factors in that fight for rights. These individuals fought to end segregation in southern states and cities. Boycotts were organized by African American men and women to protest the buses segregated seating policy. There were numerous attempts of resistance to many factors of life in the South during this time.