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Prep Civil Rights Movements: 1950’s to 1980
HW 24 A INDIVIDUAL PROJECT: One person per topic – first come first serve
*** One Written Double ID and Oral Presentation with Visuals***
*** Must include Video if appropriate and/or Slides/Pictures ***
Some Students will present during this Unit 24 – Others during next Unit 25
All students will take notes
*** The Choices are on the back of the second sheet in this packet – after HW 24 U ***
HW 24 B Read pp 667-671
Definitions: (50 to 100 words each)
1. Inflation, Strikes and the Taft-Hartley Act, 1947
2. Election of 1948: Truman v. Dewey
3. The Fair Deal
4. Election of 1952
5. “Dynamic Conservatism” (Include examples of each side)
HW 24 C Read pp 675-677
Definitions: (50 to 100 words each)
1. The Affluent Society and Kemmons Wilson
2. The Spread of Wealth and White Collar/Blue Collar Jobs
3. Multinational Corporations and Franchises
4. Conformity and Consumerism
5. The Growth of Suburbia
HW 24 D Read pp 677-679
Definitions: (50 to 100 words each)
6. The Baby Boom
7. Women in the Fifties
8. Advances in Electronics
9. Medical Miracles and Dr. Jonas Salk
10. Conquering Space
HW 24 E Read pp 681-686
Definitions: (50 to 100 words each)
11. Television: four main categories in 1950’s
12. Hollywood adapts to the times and James Dean
13. Rock ‘n’ Roll and Elvis Presley
14. The Beat Movement
15. African-American Entertainers and Nat King Cole
HW 24 H Read pp 744-747
Definitions: (50 to 100 words each)
24. The Montgomery Bus Boycott
25. Thurgood Marshall (top of page 745)
26. African American Churches
27. Crisis in Little Rock, 1957
28. Civil Rights Act, 1957
HW 24 I Read pp 749-751
Definitions: (50 to 100 words each)
29. The Sit-In Movement
30. SNCC
31. Freedom Riders, 1961
32. President John F. Kennedy and CEEO
HW 24 J Read pp 751-754
Definitions: (50 to 100 words each)
33. The Justice Department takes Action
34. James Meredith and Federal Marshalls
35. Violence in Birmingham
36. The March on Washington and Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Speech
HW 24 K Read pp 754-759
Definitions: (50 to 100 words each)
37. Civil Rights Act, 1964
38. The Selma March
39. The Voting Rights Act, 1965
40. Problems Facing Urban African Americans
HW 24 M Read pp 708-711
Definitions: (50 to 100 words each)
45. President Kennedy and Women’s Rights
46. Earl Warren (Use the Internet: Wikipedia)
47. “One Man, One Vote”
48. Extending Due Process (list court cases and rights extended)
49. Prayer and Bible Readings
HW 24 N Read pp 724-727
Definition: (50 to 100 words)
50. “War on Poverty” and the OEO
***Identification: (100 to 200 words)
51. The Great Society (Include Medicare, Medicaid and Head Start)
HW 24 O Read pp 759-760
Definitions: (50 to 100 words)
52. The Watts Riot
53. The Kerner Commission
54. The Chicago Movement and Richard Daley
HW 24 P Read pp 760-762
***Identifications: (100 to 200 words)
55. Black Power and Stokely Carmichael
56. Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam
HW 24 Q Read pp 762-763
***Identifications: (100 to 200 words)
57. The Black Panthers
58. The Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
HW 24 R Read pp 807-812
Definitions: (50 to 100 words each)
59. Students for a Democratic Society
60. Free Speech Movement
61. Hippie Culture
62. Music and Dance (Include: “Beatlemania” and Woodstock, August 1969)
HW 24 S Read pp 814-819
Definitions: (50 to 100 words each)
63. Fighting for Workplace Rights
64. NOW
65. Equality in Education
66. Roe v. Wade, 1973
67. The Equal Rights Amendment
HW 24 U: World Map Due the day of the test with the Notes.
1. Use RED INK to SHADE IN these seas: Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea, Caspian Sea, Red Sea and the Persian Gulf
2. Use RED INK to LABEL all Continents and Oceans
3. Use RED INK to carefully CIRCLE Asia, North America and Latin America
(Use blue ink when drawing your circles through the shaded red ink)
4. Use BLACK INK to LABEL at least 40 Nations
5. Use BLUE INK to LABEL at least 40 Capitals of Nations
6. Use a HI-LITER to SHADE IN ALL 21 Communist Nations as of 1980’s
USH - Unit 24 & 25 Projects for Presentation
I. Music: (Unit 24)
1. Origins of Rock and Roll pp 683 – 685, 695, 811 – 812
2. Nat King Cole p 685
3. The Beatles p 685
4. Elvis Presley p 684, 695
5. Johnny Cash
6. Woodstock, 1969 p 812
7. Disco Music and Dance, 1970’s
II. African-American Civil Rights: (Unit 24)
8. Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955 – 1956 pp 744 – 745, 764
9. Crisis in Little Rock, 1957 pp 746 - 747
10. Malcolm X (1925 to 1965) and the Nation of Islam pp 760 - 762
11. Freedom Riders, 1961 pp 750 - 751
12. March on Washington, 1963 and Martin Luther King’s Speech pp 753 - 754
13. The Selma March, 1965 pp 755 - 756
14. Watts Riots, 1965 p 759
15. The Black Panthers, 1966 on … p 762
16. Rodney King and Riots, 1991 (Unit 25)
17. O.J. Simpson Murder Case, 1994 & 1995 (Unit 25)
III. Other Civil Rights: (Unit 24)
18. Cesar Chavez and the UFW p 828
19. Ralph Nader and Consumers pp 836 – 837; 948
20. Native American Rights Movement pp 690 – 691; 828 - 831
21. Feminist Movement pp 813 - 819
22. Aids Outbreak, 1981 on … pp 905 – 906 (Unit 25)
23. Environmentalism pp 832 – 836 (Unit 25)
IV. Famous People: (Unit 25)
24. Assassination of John F. Kennedy, 1963 and Warren Commission pp 718-719; 762-763
25. Reverend Billy Graham: “America’s Preacher” 891, 957
V. Famous Events: (Unit 25)
26. Anti-War Protests during Vietnam War, 1960’s and early 1970’s pp 788 – 789 (Unit 24)
27. Three Mile Island Accident, 1979 and Chernobyl Disaster, 1986 p 835
28. Space Shuttle Challenger explodes, 1986 pp 907 - 908
29. Gulf War I, 1991 pp 918, 920 – 921, 962 - 963
30. 911 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 pp 954 - 956
31. Gulf War II, 2003 p 960
32. Hurricane Katrina, 2005
VI. Other Movements or Fads: (Unit 24)
33. Fashion in the 1960’s and 1970’s (Mini-skirts, Bikinis, Go-go Boots, Jeans, Afro hairdos,
Bell-bottoms, Platform Shoes, Hot Pants, etc.)
34.