In this class learners will understand the implications of segregation, explain the key events of the Civil Rights Movement, and be able to compare and contrast the civil rights issues of the 1960s to those of modern society.

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📕 Class Information- Grade 8- Civil Rights Movement and Beyond 

Through many uprisings, protests, and demonstrations, segregation was finally abolished and civil rights were established for people of varying colors, races, and genders. In this semester long class learners will understand the implications of segregation,
explain the key events of the Civil Rights Movement, and be able to compare and contrast the civil rights issues of the 1960s to those of modern society.

Fall Semester (PART 1)

Week 1-4: The Roots of the Civil Rights Movement, Civil Disobedience

-Students will participate in a Civil Rights Myth Buster Quiz. During the quiz answers will appear after each question. This allows students to learn some of the history of the Civil Rights Movement that is all too often omitted from the textbooks.
-Students will learn the difference between nonviolence and civil disobedience, all while reinforcing that great changes have come about as a result of actions that didn't involve violence.
- Students will analyze examples of civil disobedience being an effective tactic and trace the history of civil disobedience during the Civil Rights Era.

Week 4-8: Jim Crow Separate but Unequal, Segregation and Desegregation of Public Spaces

-Students will learn about a group of African American and white activists rode through the Jim Crow south to test the 1960 Supreme Court ruling that deemed segregation, including on public transportation, as unconstitutional, the Freedom Riders.
-Students will learn about Victor Hugo Green and The Green Book, published from 1936 – 1964,  a guide for African Americans traveling around the country during the Jim Crow segregation era.


Week 8-12: Issues in Race and Education | Land, Labor, and Economics

-Learners will learn about how the Supreme Court had established the ruling of “separate but equal” in schools and colleges of further education.
-Learners will learn about one of the pioneering civil rights leaders, lawyer Thurgood Marshall.
-Learners will learn about the series of court cases that led to one of the most famous of civil rights decisions of the 1950’s – Brown vs the Board of Education of Topeka.
-Learners will learn about the story and impact of Ruby Bridges 
-Learners will learn about the Little Rock Nine, a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by the Governor of Arkansas.
-Learners will explore primary and secondary documents from the five separate NAACP sponsored cases brought together in Brown v Board of Education. ( Brown itself, Briggs v Elliott, Davis v County School Board of Prince Edward County, Gebhart v Belton, and Bolling v Sharpe) 
-Learners will learn about Historically Black Colleges and Universities and their past and current impact on the African American community. 
-The Tulsa Massacre
-Black Wall Street 

Spring Semester (PART 2/New Registration)
*New students welcome* 

Week 1-4: Voting Rights, Woman's Suffrage, March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, and the March on Selma 

-Students will understand that until the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified, many states denied women the right to vote
use primary and secondary sources to understand the ways that women advocated for the right to vote

-Racism in the polls 
-Literacy schools 
-Literacy Tests
-Poll taxes 

-Students will learn the the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in August 1963 was the third mass protest in Washington, DC organized to draw attention to the discrimination and radicalized violence faced by African Americans
-Learners will listen to Martin Luther King Jr's  " I Have a Dream Speech". 

Week 4-8: Protests, Resistance, Black Panther Party , and Boycotts

-Rosa Parks The Montgomery Bus Boycott
-The Greensboro Four 
-Learners will be able to define and understand the term nationalism
-Learners will explore the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, which was an organization formed in the 1960s that advocated a more radical message for reform during the Civil Rights-era. Students will learn how the Black Panther Party would go on to be a monumental force in the debate for change during the Civil Rights period.
-Students will learn about what members of the Black Panther Party stood for and looked like (ideas, dress goals).
-Learners will learn what contributed to the decline of the Black Panthers. 
-Learners will watch a supplemental video 

Week 8-12: KKK's, Lynching, Sun Down Towns, and the Story of Emmett Till 

-Who was the KKK?
-What did the KKK look like 
-Students will understand the rise and demise of the Ku Klux Klan of the Reconstruction period
-Students will learn the core positions the Ku Klux Klan of the Reconstruction period took with respect to various issues as well as why they took those positions.
-Students will learn the various actions the Ku Klux Klan took against innocent people all over the U.S. to accomplish their goals
- Learners will watch a supplemental video 
- Students learn about the history of lynching and why it occurred.
-Students will learn about Emmett Louis Till, a 14-year-old African American boy who was abducted, tortured, and lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after being accused of offending a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in her family's grocery store. The brutality of his murder and the fact that his killers were acquitted drew attention to the long history of violent persecution of African Americans in the United States. Learners will learn why he became  such an icon of the civil rights movement.