VUS.13 - The Civil Rights Movement
The student will demonstrate knowledge of the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s by
(a) identifying the importance of Brown v. Board of Education decision, the roles of Thurgood Marshall and Oliver Hill, and how Virginia responded.
- Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas(1954): Opinion of the Court
- Massive Resistance in Virginia--Timeline
- Massive Resistance in Virginia--Images
- Massive Resistance in Virginia--Multimedia
- Massive Resistance in Virginia--Documents
- Central Methodist Church letter, 11/16/62, to Alabama Governor George Wallace,
Mrs. Lucien Lentz, 11/17/62, to Alabama Governor George Wallace,
Tuskegee Institute Young Democrats Club letter, 10/-/63, to Alabama Governor George Wallace,
Northrop Laboratories letter, 05/23/65, to Alabama Governor George Wallace- Interview with Miss Gladys Austin (1995)
- Interview with Dr. Sandra Adickes (1999)
- Interview with Ruby Bridges Hall (1997)
Contextual Essay: "Virginia's "Massive Resistance" to School Desegregation"
(b) describing the importance of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the 1963 March on Washington, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
- Letter from a Birmingham Jail (16 April 1963)
- March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (28 August 1963)
- Young People at the March on Washington 1963,
Civil Rights Leaders at the March on Washington 1963,
Martin Luther King, Jr. delivering his speech at the March on Washington, 1963,
Martin Luther King, Jr. at the March on Washington, 1963,
Civil Rights March, 1963- Voter Registration in McComb, Mississippi, 1962
- Interview with Honorable Unita Blackwell, 1977
- 'Voter lists up by 31% after federal drive'(Birmingham News, 10/01/66),
'Negro vote may cast deciding ballot Tuesday'(Birmingham News, 11/06/66)- Alabama Senate Joint Resolution No. 28, 03/19/65
- 'Wet Marchers Pass Halfway Point,'(Alabama Journal, 03/23/65,
'Selma's "bloody Sunday" recalled after 10 years,'(Mobile Press, 03/02/75- "Interactive Photo Site of the Selma March (1965)"
- The Effect of the Voting Rights Act