4/30- Mr Whitman looked at the Children's crusade in Birmingham and how it influenced America, and then the class listened to MLK's I have a Dream speech
5/1-We looked at the rest of the speech, and went over some of the key points from his speech, including the locations he choose and what the speech meant. I talked about what the March on Washington meant. We also watched a clip from the Cosby Show.
5/2-Students signed up for their transcripts with the guidance office. A few classes watched a clip from the Church Bombings that took place shortly after the march on washington
5/3-Students looked at the other side of America, and how Cesar Chavez influenced rights for Mexican Americans in the US.
5/6-Mr Whitman looked at the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the 24th Amendment. Discussed briefly the Summer of Freedom and how voting was still an issue. Showed a clip from the beginning of Selma where Annie Lee Cooper tries to register and the subsequent 'testing'.
Then I gave the some background on Selma and had them do the
roleplay activity.
5/7-In class we looked at the growing counter to MLK, which was the rise in black nationalism. Malcolm X and the Black Power movement started to give opposing views to MLK.
5/8-Mr Whitman looked at several different events of the late 1960's including the riots in Watts and Detroit, as well as the integration of marriages.
