1. Unit 8: Social and Political Movements (up to 1968)
Lesson 1: Civil Rights, Part 1

2. “I have a dream” REMIX
Directions: Listen to the following rap and write down 5 things that you understood from the rap about the civil rights movement.
How far have we come???

3. SSUSH22 The student will identify dimensions of the Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1970.
Civil Rights Video Clips
To view the video, the following link is on the ppt slide :

4. Integration
In 1947 President Truman formed a special task force on civil rights.
President Truman integrated the military and formed a special civil rights division within the Justice Department

5. Jackie Robinson
Though the majority of Major League Baseball owners were against integration, the Brooklyn Dodgers signed Jackie Robinson to a contract in 1947
He became the 1st African American to play MLB, went on to win Rookie of the Year and eventually made into the Hall of Fame.

6. Brown v. Board of Education
In 1954 the Supreme Court began hearing arguments in Brown v. Board of Education
The case dealt with school segregation and whether the separate but equal doctrine applied to public schools
By an unanimous vote the court ruled that under the 14th Amendment school segregation was illegal, and order all states to desegregate their schools “with all deliberate speed”.

7. Brown v. Board of Education
Many states and local school districts refused to integrate
Little Rock Central High School (1957) in Arkansas refused to allow 9 African American to integrate.
President Eisenhower
sent troops to
put down the
protest and
let the
“Little Rock
Nine” into the
school

8. Exit Ticket!
What early events marked the transition in our society to a Civil Rights Movement?
How did the Brown v. Board of education impact schools in the United States? What impact did it have outside of our schools?