"People were threatened, folks were put in jail because we wanted people to try to register to vote." Unita Blackwell
Today is a historic day, consequently, all classes will research the fight for enfranchisement for all.
Directions: Select one video from each group: African American; Latino; and Women. Watch/Listen. While Watching and Listening, record what you learned about Civil Rights and the Right to Vote. In addition, you must define each of the following terms: Freedom Summer; SNCC; Fannie Lou Hamer; East Los Angeles Walkouts; How many more millions of Latinos are able to vote than in the last Presidential Election? What was a literacy test in Mississippi? How were the women who participated in picketing for the right to vote punished?
Select from the following: Mississippi: Is This America? which details the right to vote in Mississippi and the Freedom Summer. Freedom Riders: Freedom Riders (best video)
2. No Easy Walk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jg2GKtBqgU
3. The Legacy of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee Link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZE0a5-p9pg
4. A Brief History of the Woman's Right to Vote The Womans Right to Vote Short clip
5. African-American Women March for Suffrage Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/wp/2013/03/03/despite-the-tremendous-risk-african-american-women-marched-for-suffrage-too/
6. Latinos and the Voting Rights Act and Voting Rights Extension http://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/latinos-1965-voting-rights-act-impact-came-decade-later-n404936
7. Teaching Tolerance: Latino Civil Rights Timeline
8. Latinos are voting back at Trump Latinos Voting Back At Trump
9. East Los Angeles Student Walkouts East LA Walkouts
You will complete the questions and a Reflective Journal. Then, you will resume your reading of The Fall of Rome (period 1) and Antigone (period 3)
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