Unit Plan: 11th Grade U.S. Unit 7: The American Civil Rights Movement. Unit Overview Big Idea: The civil rights movement is a crucial and ongoing movement in American history to provide all American citizens with equality and self determination. This movement has been a long and arduous process. Unit 2: Industrialization, Immigration, Urbanization, and Progressivism Unit 3: Imperialism and World War 1 Unit 4: The 1920s and the Great Depression Midterm Review Unit 5: WWII Unit 6: Cold War Part 1 Unit 7: Cold War Part 2 - The Civil Rights Movement and Vietnam War.
The Civil Rights Movement was a movement for racial equality and voting rights for African Americans that peaked between 1955 and 1968. African Americans organized and participated in a decade of protests, including sit-ins, marches, boycotts, and fights for legislation of equal treatment. The movement was famous for strong and charismatic leaders who believed in the power of nonviolent resistance. Despite this belief by many, protestors encountered violence and struggled to keep unity within the movement over time. The story of the Civil Rights Movement is not only one of the south, though. Leaders and protestors in the North fought for equality in housing, employment, and de facto segregation. Historians still disagree about the success of the Civil Rights Movement - while great improvements were made in race relations, the goals of the movement have not fully been achieved.
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Related to the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, signed by Lyndon B. Johnson:
Unit 7: The Civil Warmac's History Summary
U.S. History Flipcharts
Unit 7: The Civil Warmac's History Timeline
U.S. History Homework Packets