Items with an * are recommended as helpful, short reviews (rather than in-depth exploration)
Topics Explored This Unit:
- The Civil Rights Movement
- The 1960s - The Counterculture Movement and the Cold War
- The Vietnam war
- Major Events of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s
Unit Required Reading:
- "Camelot to Watergate" - Excerpt from Steve Wiegand (you can also click here for optional practice questions that go with this reading)
- Final Reading for HUSH - 1970s - 2000
What should you know about these readings for the Final Exam?
Click here for the Final Exam Study Guide & Practice Questions!
Click here for the Final Exam Study Guide & Practice Questions!
Topic: The Civil Rights Movement
- Presentation from class: Civil Rights Movement
- Simple Civil Rights Timeline
- Civil Rights Timeline - Milestones in the Civil Rights Movement
Segregation:
- Hip Hughes: Jim Crow Explained
- Example Jim Crow Laws
- A Class Divided: The Jane Elliot Experiment (watched in class)
- Plessy vs. Ferguson Case of 1896
Desegregation:
- *Quick Review: Brown vs.Board of Education Case 1954
- Bet You Didn't Know; Rosa Parks
- Hip Hughes: Little Rock Nine
- Brown vs. Board Clip from PBS Supreme Court
Theory of Non-Violent Resistance:
- *Quick Review: Sound Smart: Freedom Riders (2 min)
- *Freedom Riders: The Strategy/Reasoning Explained (4 min)
- Freedom Riders: Jim Zwerg and the Attack on Freedom Riders (watched in class)v
- Martin Luther King, Jr Interview on Non-Violent Civil Disobedience
- The Sit-In Movement
- Full Website: Freedom Riders
Marches:
- *Quick Review: Birmingham March 1963
- *Quick Review: Martin Luther King Leads the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
- Why was Birmingham called Bombingham?
- Bet You Didn't Know: Famous March on Washington 1963
- MLK's Full "I have A Dream Speech"
Important Civil Rights Legislation from the 1960s:
- *Quick Review: The Civil Rights Act of 1964
- *Quick Review: Sound Smart: Voting Rights Act of 1965
- Hip Hughes: Civil Rights Act 1964 Explained
Debates within the Movement for Greater Movement
- *Quick Review: Sound Smart: Black Panther Party
- The Birth of the Black Panthers
- *Malcolm X 20 Minute Biography
- Malcom X's Comments about the Nation of Islam
- Examining the Life of Malcolm X - Brief Summary and Longer Biography
- New Documentary: The Lost Tapes - Malcolm X and article Is it Time for a Reassessment of Malcolm X?
- Thoughts from Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X (though their ideas were more in alignment than different at the end of their lives)
- The Nation of Islam Summary from Britannica
- The Nation of Islam (Pan-Africanism and Connection to Marcus Garvey)
- Contemporary Nation of Islam - Why Designated as a Hate Organization?
- Muhammad Ali & His Trials and Tribulations with the Nation of Islam
Other - For Further Exploration on African American Race Relations
Brown v. Board of Education
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Montgomery Bus Boycott & It's Significance
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Bloody Sunday - The March on Selma & the Significance of Media
Topic: The 1960s
- Presentation from class - The 1960s
- *Quick Review: Sound Smart - the 1960s (Short Summary of Major Developments)
- Crash Course: 1960s
1960s Presidents:
- History Channel: JFK
- *Quick Review: History Channel: The Cuban Missile Crisis
- History Channel: The Space Race
- 1960s Overview from History Channel
- JFK Speech: "We Choose To Go To The Moon"
- *Quick Review: LBJ & the "Great Society"
1960s Counterculture:
1960s Continued Civil Rights Movements:
- *Quick Review: Heimler's History: The Women's Rights Movement
- *Quick Review: Roe v. Wade - Bill of Rights Institute or Roe v. Wade
- Hip Hughes: The Equal Rights Movement Explained
- *Quick Review: Celebrating the American Indian Civil Rights Act 1968
- 1968: American Indian Movement
- History of the Asian American Civil Rights Movement
- *Quick Review: Asian American History of Activism in the US
- *Quick Review: Cesar Chavez: American Civil Rights Acts Fast Facts
Topic: The Vietnam War
- *Quick Review: WatchMojo: Vietnam War History & Key Dates
- Time: Pictures of the Vietnam War That Move Us
- The Tet Offensive Video Clip
- Video with actual letter revealing Mai Lai Massacre
- Video: Protesting the Vietnam War (Two Viewpoints)
- Sound Smart: Vietnam War Protests
- Post Vietnam Political Development: War Powers Resolution (in response to bombing of Laos & Cambodia during war)
Topic: Major Events of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s
- *Quick Review: Heimler's History 1970s: The Turd Richard Nixon, Stagflation, and Jimmy Carter
- *Quick Review: History Channel: What were the Pentagon Papers?
- *The President's Series: Richard Nixon
- *Quick Review: Hip Hughes: Watergate in One Minute or Watergate Explained in 10 minutes
- History vs. Richard Nixon
- The President's Series: Gerald Ford
- Camp David Accords
- Iran Hostage Crisis
- *Quick Review: History Channel: What happened in the Persian Gulf War?
- Hip Hughes: Ronald Reagan Explained
- Hip Hughes: The Clinton Impeachment
- Heimler's History: Reagan and the Rise of Conservativism
- Crash Course: The Clinton Years 1990s