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U.S. History, Period Three, Wednesday 3/28
Matilda walked into class with a bit of bounce in her step. Today she got to teach class for REAL. And Chuck wouldn’t be coming in to stop her. She stands in front of the class, a little dwarfed by the large chalkboard behind her, but she smiles none-the-less.
“Hello everyone, Mr. Noblet isn’t feeling well today. He left me some notes, which I’m not going to use. I’d really like to completely reteach history but I only have 50 minutes so I’ll just stick to what we’re supposed to be learning today, which would be the Civil Rights Movement.”
She pauses for a moment and a piece of chalk lifts from the tray below the board and begins to write notes as she paces in front of the class speaking. She doesn’t appear to be looking at notes of any kind during her entire lecture. “So, mostly the Civil Rights Movement refers to the time between 1945 and about 1970 where African Americans struggled for equal rights to those of whites. However, the struggle really started a few years after the Civil War and the abolition of slavery when after Plessy v. Ferguson established a doctrine of “separate but equal” facilities for blacks.”
“It was not uncommon to see signs that said “Whites Only” on many drinking fountains, bathrooms and swimming pools, to name a few things. This doctrine persisted for many years until in 1954 it was overturned in a case, Brown v. Board of Education. In this trial it was decided that “separate but equal” was, in fact, inherently unequal because the facilities for blacks weren’t as well taken care of as the facilities for whites. To change this, a policy of integration was enforced.”
“To accomplish this integration, the government chose high-achieving black students and placed them into a previously all-white school. The most prominient example of resistance could be seen in Little Rock Arkansas, where nine black students were barred from entering Little Rock Central High School by the Arkansas National Guard, sent in by the governor of Arkansas himself wanting to stop integration. The president, Dwight D. Eisenhower, retaliated by sending in the Army’s 101st Airborne Division to escort the students into the school.”
“After this, in 1955, many actions began to be made by black Americans in order to gain their rights. Most took a stance of non-violent resistance, and, using a term coined by Mr. Henry David Thoreu, civil disobedience. They participated in actions such as boycotts, for example boycotting usage of buses that forced them to give up their seats to whites. Sit-ins, in which blacks would sit for hours in cafeterias that refused to serve them a meal, and marches, where hundreds, sometimes thousands, would march together, famously the Selma to Montgomery marches for voting rights.”
“During these peaceful protests, violence often broke out. “Bloody Sunday,” which occurred during the first Selma to Montgomery march on March 7th, 1965, was when police attacked 600 marchers with clubs, bull whips and tear gas.” She clears her throat and allows the chalk to catch up a bit on its notes.
“The bus boycotts previously mentioned were actually started by a woman by the name of Rosa Parks who refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery Bus. She was later tried and arrested for her actions. This lead to the Montgomery Bus boycott that lasted for 382 days until a law was passed that outlawed black and white segregation on buses.”
“Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was another of the many influential people in the movement. He gave rousting speeches about ways to peacefully change the unjust laws against the African Americans and his dream of whites and blacks interacting with each other with no prejudice or violence. He was assassinated in April 1968 while visiting Memphis, Tennessee and speaking for a group of sanitation workers on strike.”
“Well there’s a lot more but I want to give you a chance to ask me any questions before class ends,” she stands ready to call on anyone who raises their hand.
((OOC: Apologies for lateness, I've got to type up another class and such. Haha and this one got long. I'll catch pings as timely as I can.))
“Hello everyone, Mr. Noblet isn’t feeling well today. He left me some notes, which I’m not going to use. I’d really like to completely reteach history but I only have 50 minutes so I’ll just stick to what we’re supposed to be learning today, which would be the Civil Rights Movement.”
She pauses for a moment and a piece of chalk lifts from the tray below the board and begins to write notes as she paces in front of the class speaking. She doesn’t appear to be looking at notes of any kind during her entire lecture. “So, mostly the Civil Rights Movement refers to the time between 1945 and about 1970 where African Americans struggled for equal rights to those of whites. However, the struggle really started a few years after the Civil War and the abolition of slavery when after Plessy v. Ferguson established a doctrine of “separate but equal” facilities for blacks.”
“It was not uncommon to see signs that said “Whites Only” on many drinking fountains, bathrooms and swimming pools, to name a few things. This doctrine persisted for many years until in 1954 it was overturned in a case, Brown v. Board of Education. In this trial it was decided that “separate but equal” was, in fact, inherently unequal because the facilities for blacks weren’t as well taken care of as the facilities for whites. To change this, a policy of integration was enforced.”
“To accomplish this integration, the government chose high-achieving black students and placed them into a previously all-white school. The most prominient example of resistance could be seen in Little Rock Arkansas, where nine black students were barred from entering Little Rock Central High School by the Arkansas National Guard, sent in by the governor of Arkansas himself wanting to stop integration. The president, Dwight D. Eisenhower, retaliated by sending in the Army’s 101st Airborne Division to escort the students into the school.”
“After this, in 1955, many actions began to be made by black Americans in order to gain their rights. Most took a stance of non-violent resistance, and, using a term coined by Mr. Henry David Thoreu, civil disobedience. They participated in actions such as boycotts, for example boycotting usage of buses that forced them to give up their seats to whites. Sit-ins, in which blacks would sit for hours in cafeterias that refused to serve them a meal, and marches, where hundreds, sometimes thousands, would march together, famously the Selma to Montgomery marches for voting rights.”
“During these peaceful protests, violence often broke out. “Bloody Sunday,” which occurred during the first Selma to Montgomery march on March 7th, 1965, was when police attacked 600 marchers with clubs, bull whips and tear gas.” She clears her throat and allows the chalk to catch up a bit on its notes.
“The bus boycotts previously mentioned were actually started by a woman by the name of Rosa Parks who refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery Bus. She was later tried and arrested for her actions. This lead to the Montgomery Bus boycott that lasted for 382 days until a law was passed that outlawed black and white segregation on buses.”
“Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was another of the many influential people in the movement. He gave rousting speeches about ways to peacefully change the unjust laws against the African Americans and his dream of whites and blacks interacting with each other with no prejudice or violence. He was assassinated in April 1968 while visiting Memphis, Tennessee and speaking for a group of sanitation workers on strike.”
“Well there’s a lot more but I want to give you a chance to ask me any questions before class ends,” she stands ready to call on anyone who raises their hand.
((OOC: Apologies for lateness, I've got to type up another class and such. Haha and this one got long. I'll catch pings as timely as I can.))
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