The Civil Rights Movement

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This video lesson touches on the Civil Rights Movement during the 1950s-1960s. In the video, we discuss well known Civil Rights Activists and pioneers that paved that way for African Americans, Movements, and other Activists today.

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  1. Hey, social studies class.
  2. We're gonna be doing our lesson online for the day,
  3. so I want you to take out your opinions, your
  4. papers, and make sure you got your volume turned up.
  5. Um, today's lesson is gonna be about the civil rights
  6. movement, which actually began after slavery and slavery ended December
  7. of 18 65.
  8. So that was, uh, 148 years ago.
  9. But we're gonna be focusing on the time frame early
  10. 19 fifties and late 19 sixties because there was a
  11. lot of significant changes and uprising going on during that
  12. time period that we may even relate to or can
  13. compare to today.
  14. So let's begin the lesson.
  15. All right, So our lesson objectives for today is investigating
  16. the main ideas and beliefs of the movement.
  17. What were the ideas or what were the similarities of
  18. beliefs that thes activists and protesters had to?
  19. We're going to compare and contrast past issues of inequality
  20. with current events and then our third objective.
  21. I want you guys to remember these new terms.
  22. Our new terms for this lesson is equity, equality, segregation
  23. and integration.
  24. Now, this is the time where you guys use your
  25. pencils and your papers.
  26. Um, I want you guys to look at this image,
  27. and I'll give you a few seconds.
  28. Um, you can pause this video if you need to.
  29. And just think about this picture.
  30. What's so different about it?
  31. What are the similarities?
  32. What does it mean?
  33. So, um, I'll let you guys pause the video here,
  34. all right?
  35. And we're back.
  36. So explaining this picture here in the equality side, you
  37. can see everyone has the same box or create to
  38. stand on to see the game.
  39. But problem here is, uh, this person or character who's
  40. in a wheelchair.
  41. They're not able to stand or get on the creek.
  42. They need help.
  43. So even though everything's equal here, there are still people
  44. who have a disadvantage that need, like an extra push.
  45. Um, here on the equity side, you can see that
  46. everyone can see the game.
  47. The person who was, uh, on the equality side that
  48. wasn't able to get on the box percent of wheelchair.
  49. They have a ramp.
  50. And the little girl as you notice inequality side, she
  51. had to, like, stand on her tippy toes.
  52. She couldn't quite see all the way here in the
  53. equity side, she had two little boxes to stand on,
  54. which helped her.
  55. And this guy, he was our He already had an
  56. advantage. He was tall enough to see over the fence
  57. already. So how does this relate to lessen?
  58. Well, the civil rights movement was fighting not only for
  59. equality but equity as well.
  60. African Americans had a huge disadvantage due to the Jim
  61. Crow laws and the discrimination that was going on in
  62. society. Not just the Jim Crow laws were created to,
  63. um, separate African Americans from white Americans.
  64. This brought them, uh, separate in schools where they ate
  65. restaurants. It was, ah, phrase separate but equal, even though
  66. there wasn't really any equality.
  67. So how the African Americans over come or deal with
  68. this? Well, we had to fight.
  69. Um, there were civil rights activists and pioneers that came
  70. in the picture, Um, even during slavery.
  71. But in this time period, there was more uprising and
  72. more people getting together.
  73. So let's talk about first.
  74. Let's talk about, um, Claudette Colvin.
  75. Um, if you guys are familiar with Rosa Parks, Rosa
  76. Parks is well known for, um being arrested for Um
  77. Oh. Well, I can't talk today.
  78. Um, Rosa Parks was known for getting arrested for not,
  79. um, moving from her seat for, ah, white passenger.
  80. And as we mentioned the Jim Crow laws, um, it
  81. was part of the rules that African Americans set separately
  82. from white Americans.
  83. Well, Rosa Parks wasn't the first one.
  84. It was actually Claudette Colvin, and she was actually 15
  85. years old.
  86. She was the first person to actually get arrested or
  87. refusing to move from her seat on the segregated bus
  88. is now remember, segregation means separation.
  89. Yeah, alright.
  90. And Rosa Parks, She actually was arrested for refusing her
  91. seat about almost a year later, after Colvin and wrote
  92. something that was different between Rosa Parks and Claudette Colvin
  93. was Rosa Parks.
  94. Technically had, um, a resume of being an activist.
  95. She was already involved.
  96. So she was able to get more attention for her,
  97. uh, for her act of protests.
  98. John Lewis.
  99. I don't think I'm getting ahead of myself.
  100. Rosa Parks, Um, actually, after her refusal of removed, getting,
  101. um, giving up her seat on getting arrested actually led
  102. to the popular Montgomery bus boycott where thousands of African
  103. Americans, um boycotted the Busses, and that led to.
  104. And that led to, um, segregated bus sitting being rolled
  105. out unconstitutional.
  106. Um, and I believe it was Have my notes here.
  107. 0, 1956.
  108. A person who also took part in these bus boycotts
  109. was John Lewis.
  110. John Louis had recently passed away.
  111. This year, I believe it was July of this year.
  112. He had passed away, and he is actually known as
  113. one of the Big Six leaders of the civil rights
  114. movement John Lewis took.
  115. He took part in sit in protests where many African
  116. Americans said at, um, segregated counters and diners.
  117. And he also took part and, um, bus boycotts, and
  118. he even marched with Martin Luther King on the march
  119. on Washington.
  120. John Lewis also became a U.
  121. S Congress, um, remember and continue to fight for civil
  122. rights justices.
  123. Another fighter, also well known Martin Luther King Jr.
  124. Martin Luther King Jr was a Baptist minister and also
  125. received his doctors degree.
  126. They can no one as Dr King, and he actually
  127. organized and led the march on Washington, where he gave
  128. the most famous beach.
  129. I had a dream, so he and um are he
  130. and John Lewis both were known as one of the
  131. Big Six leaders of the civil rights movement.
  132. And they helped pass and push new law, civil rights
  133. laws and acts that helped African Americans have more equality
  134. and equity.
  135. And then Ruby Bridges, she is known for.
  136. She was the first African American child to actually desegregate
  137. in all white school in Louisiana.
  138. Um, during a crime desegregation crisis in 1960 Ruby Bridges
  139. actually continued her fight as well and became a civil
  140. rights activists and still fights for, um, injustices and inequality
  141. today. Now let's summarize everything.
  142. What were popular beliefs or what ideas do you think
  143. all these activists had?
  144. Well, they all believed in equality and fighting for justice
  145. and, um, equity.
  146. Um, and how just this relate to now, um, if
  147. you have been watching the media, there's been a lot
  148. of protests for black life.
  149. The black lives matter, movement.
  150. There's been protests for, uh, women's rights and also the
  151. l g B t.
  152. Q. So a lot of the ideas and um, protests
  153. that occurred during the 19 fifties and sixties still relate
  154. to us and influences today, and other protesters and activists
  155. and fighters.
  156. So don't forget our terms that we learned.
  157. Equality means everyone has the same thing.
  158. Sameness, same opportunity.
  159. Equity is more about fairness and justice.
  160. Um, segregation, ISS separate and integration.
  161. As I forgot to mention in the lesson, it means
  162. to integrate.
  163. Um um and integration means to bring people together.