• Revolution '67 video clip 1

    Created December 1, 2011

  • Launchpad: Revolution '67

    Created November 28, 2011

    Launchpad: Revolution '67

    Activity One. Protest: Why and How?

    A. Imagine that the local or federal government has passed the following laws and respond to the questions below.

  • Revolution '67, Lesson 1: Protest: Why and How

    Created November 28, 2011
    Revolution '67 image

    The “riots” of the 1960s provide teachers with an excellent opportunity to highlight a wide variety of important themes in U.S. history such as conflict and protest as well as the transition from the civil rights era to Black Protest movement.

    Lyndon B. Johnson defeats Barry Goldwater for President

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    November 3, 1964
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    JFK, LBJ, and the Fight for Equal Opportunity in the 1960s
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    We The People
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    American Experience: Lyndon Johnson
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    Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Movement 1954–1985

    Eyes on the Prize is an award-winning 14-hour television series produced by Blackside and narrated by Julian Bond. Through contemporary interviews and historical footage, the series covers all of the major events of the civil rights movement from 1954–1985. Series topics range from the Montgomery bus boycott in 1954 to the Voting Rights Act in 1965; from community power in schools to "Black Power" in the streets; from early acts of individual courage through to the flowering of a mass movement and its eventual split into factions.

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    Civil rights activist Rosa Parks dies

    Submitted by edsite.admin on October 24, 2011 - 6:44am
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    October 24, 2005
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    Ordinary People, Ordinary Places: The Civil Rights Movement
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    We The People
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    Eyes on the Prize

    Stamp Act Congress meets in New York, draws up Declaration of Rights and Grievances

    Submitted by edsite.admin on October 19, 2011 - 6:58am
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    Repeats every year until Fri Oct 19 2035 .
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    October 19, 1765
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    Declare the Causes: The Declaration of Independence
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    Coming of the American Revolution: The Stamp Act

    George Gershwin’s “Porgy & Bess” opens on Broadway

    Submitted by edsite.admin on October 8, 2011 - 3:28pm
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    Art & Culture
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    Repeats every year until Wed Oct 10 2035 .
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    October 10, 1935
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    We The People
    Related Links: 
    PBS Great Performances: Porgy & Bess, an American Voice
    Humanities Magazine: The Complicated Life of Porgy and Bess

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