Objective 4.1: Indigenous Peoples and Civil Rights in the Americas

IB History of the Americas Name: Unit Plan Civil rights and social movements in the Americas post-1945 This section examines the origins, nature, challenges and achievements of civil rights and social movements after 1945. Causes of some of these movements may be pre-1945. These movements represented the attempts to achieve equality for groups that were not recognized or accepted as full members of society, and they challenged established authority and attitudes.

Objective 4.1: Indigenous peoples and civil rights in the Americas Objective 4.2: African Americans and the civil rights movement: origins, tactics and organizations; the US Supreme Court and legal challenges to segregation in education; ending of segregation in the south (1955–1980) Objective 4.3: Role of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the civil rights movement; the rise of radical African American activism (1965–1968): Black Panthers; Black Power and Malcolm X; role of governments in civil rights movements in the Americas Objective 4.4: Feminist movements in the Americas; reasons for emergence; impact and significance Objective 4.5: Hispanic American movement in the United States; Cesar Chavez; immigration reform Objective 4.6: Youth culture and protests of the 1960s and 1970s: characteristics and manifestation of a counter-culture

Key Questions:

1. How and to what extent did the indingenous population of Latin America achieve equality after 1945? 2. How and to what extent did Native Americans achieve equality in the USA after 1945? 3. What were the long-term causes of the Civil Rights Movement? 4. What was the main reason for the mass activism that began in 1955? 5. When did the Civil Rights Movement begin? 6. How and why was de jure segregation ended? 7. What were King’s contributions to the success of the Civil Rights Movement? 8. Who or what played the most important role in the Civil Rights Movement? 9. How and why were the Nation of Islam and Malcolm X portrayed? 10. Why and with what results did Black Power emerge? 11. How new and successful was the Black Power movement? 12. What was the legacy of slavery on the 20th century? 13. Why did the situation of Afro-Latin Americans improve in the earlier 20th century? 14. How successful was the late 20th century black Civil Rights Movement? 15. Have Afro-Latin Americans attained equality through agency and racial democracy? 16. What role has the US government played in relation to the civil rights of non-white minorities? 17. Were Latin American constitutional guarantees of indigenous rights due to activism? 18. What were Cesar Chavez’s contributions to the success of the Hispanic Rights Movement? 19. How and with what success have Latin American women attempted to achieve equality? 20. How and with what success have US women tried to achieve equality? 21. When and why did the modern women’s movement start? 22. Why, in what ways and with what results did the young in the US rebel? 23. How “new”, effective and widespread was 1960s’ US student radicalism? 24. Why, to what extent and with what results did Latin American youth rebel?

Vocab—Key concepts, events, and people: Accommodationism Affirmative Action American Indian Movement (AIM)

Afro-Latin Americas Anti-Choice Baby boomers

Beat Generation Black nationalist Black Panthers Black Power

Brown v. Board of Education Bureau of Indian Affairs Civil Rights Act of 1964

Civil Rights Act of 1968 Civil Rights Movement Cold War

Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) Counterculture De facto segregation

De Jure segregation Department of Indian Affairs Dixiecrat

Double day Draft Equal protection clause

Equal Rights Amendment Eva Perón Feminists

Freedom Summer Glass Ceiling Great migration

Great Society Happenings Hippies

Homemakers HUAC Huey Newtown

Indigenismo Indians of All Tribes (IAT) Indian Self-Determination Act

Integrationist John F. Kennedy Lyndon B. Johnson

Malcom X Martin Luther King Jr. Montgomery Bus Boycott

Nation of Islam NAACP New Right

National Organization of Women Passive Resistance Reservation

Richard Nixon Roe v. Wade Separatism

Sit-ins SNCC Survival schools

Title VII Voting Rights Act of 1965 War on Poverty

Yippies

Day Date Reading Due Assignment Due In-Class Topic 1 4/4 (A) & The Standing Rock Resistance Is ______Indigenous peoples and civil 4/5 (B) Unprecedented (It's Also Centuries rights in the Americas Old) by Leah Donnella 2 4/6 (A) & ______Indigenous peoples and civil 4/17 (B) rights in the Americas 3 4/18 (A) & The Civil Rights Movement: Major Current Events Analysis Paper African Americans and the 4/19 (B) Events and Legacies by James T. Civil Rights Movement Patterson 4 4/20 (A) & ______African Americans and the 4/21 (B) Civil Rights Movement 5 4/24 (A) & Civil Rights Leadership and the 1964 Leaders of the Civil Rights Contrasting Views on the 4/25 B) Civil Rights Act by Clarence Taylor Movement Civil Rights movement 6 4/26 (A – ______Oral History Project: Topic Plan Contrasting Views on the Early Civil Rights movement Release) & 4/27 (B) 7 4/28 (A) & The Impact of Title IX by Barbara ______Feminist Movements in the 5/1 (B) Winslow Americas 8 5/2 (A) / ______Feminist Movements in the 5/3 (B) Americas 9 5/4 (A) & Cesar Chavez: The Life Behind A ______Hispanic-American 5/5 (B) Legacy Of Farm Labor Rights by Movement in the US Maureen Pao 10 5/8 (A) & ______Hispanic-American 5/9 (B) Movement in the US 11 5/10 (A) & Stonewall? Explaining Obama's ______Youth Culture and protests 5/11 (B) Historic Gay-Rights Reference by Liz of the 1960s and 1970s Halloran 12 5/12 (A) & ______Youth Culture and protests 5/15 (B) of the 1960s and 1970s 13 5/16 (A) & ______Oral History Project: Oral History Unit Review 5/17 (B) Interview Questions / Post- Interview Narrative 14 5/18 (A) & ______Unit Exam 5/19 (B) 15 5/22 (A) & ______Unit Wrap-Up 5/23 (B) 16 5/24 (A) & ______Final Exam Prep ______5/25 (B) _ Final ______Oral History Project Presentation Final Exam Exam