Civil Rights Unit

1) Civil Rights Pre- Reading Activity (p.89)

1. What are CIVIL RIGHTS? (the technical definition)

2. What is the difference between RACISM and PREJUDICE?

2) Civil Rights Timeline (p. 89)

Your timeline must include the following 12 events. You must locate the dates and place them in the correct order on your timeline.
-death of Emmet Till
-Brown vs. Board ruling outlawing segregation
-Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat
-Montgomery bus boycott
-Desegregation of Little Rock, Arkansas
-Supreme Court ruling that segregation of Montgomery buses is unconstitutional
-Freedom Riders attacked in Alabama
-Birmingham police attack children's march
-Alabama governor stands in schoolhouse door
-March on Washington
-16th Street Baptist Church Bombing
-Selma March