The 1960s: Social Unrest & Counterculture

STANDARD 11.10: Students Analyze Federal Civil Rights and Voting Rights

11.10.1 African-American Demands

Origins Of The Civil Rights Movement
American Civil Rights Movement - 1955 - 1968

Executive Order 8802: Prohibition of Discrimination in the Defense Industry (1941)
Executive Order 9981: Desegregation of the Armed Forces (1948)

Mount Miguel Library Civil Rights Links

11.10.2 Key Events and Court Cases

How Effective Was the Civil Rights Movement in Bringing About Social Change in America?

How Did the Warren Court use Judicial Review to Protect the Rights of Citizens?

How Has the Berger/Rehnquist Court Effected the Issue of Rights in America?

Civil Rights In an Uncivil Society

Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

11.10.3  Collaboration to End Segregation in Education

School Integration :INTRODUCTION

Brown vs. Board Of Education (1954)
Desegregation
Little Rock High School Integration (1957)

School Integration In Universities (General Introduction)

** Most Famous University Integration Case:**
James Meredith and the Integration of Ole Miss
The U.S. Marshals and the Integration of the University of Mississippi
James Meredith (Spartacus)
James Meredith (Wikipedia)

11.10.4 Civil Rights Advocates

Civil Rights Movement and Advocates (NAACP, SCLC, SNCC)

11.10.5 Diffusion of the Civil Rights Movement

Background Outlines: Decades Of Change
Civil Rights Movement 1960 -1980, The Women's Movement, The Latino Movement, The Native-American Movement.

11.10.6 Civil Rights and Voting Rights Legislation

Desegregation at Little Rock Central High School (1957)
Executive Order 10730: Desegregation of Central High School
Civil Rights and Voting Rights - Suffrage

Mount Miguel Library Links - Civil Rights - LINKS

11.10.7 Women's Rights Movement

Mount Miguel Library Links - Women's Rights - LINKS
19th Amendment: Women's Right to Vote (1920)
The Equal Pay Act
Equal Pay Act Of 1963
Title IX (FAQs)
Title IX: 25 Years Of Progress