Advanced American History
While social change accelerated after WWII, the mold for desegregation of American society was set in the 1950's. Brown v. Board of Education and the Little Rock Crisis showed the federal government was committed to desegregation, and the Montgomery Bus Boycott set the example of non-violent protest.
Assignment: Read text 589-99 (quiz Wednesday)
Image of Rosa Parks courtesy montgomerybusboycott.com
American Studies
Today we begin a short unit on the history of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950's and 60's. To build the context for this era of change, today we discussed the history of race relations in America from the Civil War through World War II. The failure of Reconstruction paved the way for nearly a century of segregation, and little progress was made in undoing these wrongs until the late 1940's.
Assignment: Read pages 580-88 in textbook. Answer Questions 4,5 & 6.
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