Background Essay on the 1968 Latino Student Walkouts
Social Movements
This short essay describes the social, political, and educational climate that resulted in the 1968 Los Angeles walkouts.
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Sources: Vicki Ruiz, <em>From Out of the Shadows: From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America</em> (Oxford, 1999); George Sanchez, <em>Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945</em> (Oxford, 1995); and F. Arturo Rosales, <em>Chicano! The History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement</em> (Arte Publico Press, 1997).
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2008
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English
Article/Essay
Postwar America (1946-1975)
"Uncle Sam's Got Himself in a Terrible Jam": Protest Music and the Vietnam War
Social Movements
In this activity students analyze the lyrics to a popular Vietnam War protest song and discuss how music can be used to motivate people and for protest. Then students will create a new stanza for the protest song "I-Feel-Like-I'm Fixin'-To-Die Rag."
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2009
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English
Postwar America (1946-1975)
Social Movements and Constitutional Change: Women's Suffrage
Gender and Sexuality
Social Movements
In this activity, students analyze documents to arrange events on a timeline of women's suffrage. The timeline and documents will help students understand the intersection of social movements and constitutional change. This activity can be modified by reducing the number of documents. An optional Smartboard Notebook file is included to facilitate the activity.
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2010
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English
Modern America (1914-1929)
Women's Suffrage Timeline Cards
Social Movements
These are the "event" and "date" cards used to complete a timeline of significant events in the women's suffrage movement. The directions for this activity can be found in the activity "Social Movements and Constitutional Change: Women's Suffrage."
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2010
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1696
English
Analysis Worksheets: "Social Movements and Constitutional Change: Women's Suffrage"
Social Movements
These worksheets are designed to help students analyze nine primary sources in the activity "Social Movements and Constitutional Change: Women's Suffrage." Also included here are the answer keys for the worksheets.
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2010
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1696
English
The Movement Before the Movement: Civil Rights Activism in the 1940s
Civil Rights and Citizenship
Social Movements
In this activity, students read cards about various civil rights protests and events during the 1940s. For each event, students match the issue (voting rights, fair employment, fair housing, or segregation in public places) at stake, identify the key people involved and what region of the country it took place in. After students have completed all the cards, an optional writing task asks students to synthesize the historical content by writing a letter to a relative serving overseas describing the efforts of civil rights activists in the 1940s. There is some assembly of materials required for this activity. This activity has optional Smartboard elements but can be completed without a Smartboard.
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2011
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English
Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
The Movement Before the Movement cards
Civil Rights and Citizenship
Social Movements
These cards are for the activity "The Movement Before the Movement: Civil Rights Activism in the 1940s." Before beginning the activity, the teacher should print and cut out a set of event cards and who-what-where cards for each student or group participating in the activity.
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2011
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1839
English
Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
The Movement Before the Movement prompt
Civil Rights and Citizenship
Social Movements
This is the writing prompt for the activity "The Movement Before the Movement: Civil Rights Activism in the 1940s."
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2011
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1839, 1840
English
Angelina Grimke Argues for Women's Political Rights
Civil Rights and Citizenship
Gender and Sexuality
Social Movements
In this letter Angelina Grimke, abolitionist and women's rights advocate, argues for the right of propertied women to participate in government through petitions despite their lack of enfranchisement. This letter was a part of a series of essays that Grimke publicly addressed to Catherine Beecher. Beecher strongly supported female education, but believed that women's proper place was in the home, as wives and mothers, rather than in the public sphere.
Angelina Grimke
Angelina Grimke, <em> Letters to Catherine E. Beecher in Reply to an Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism</em> (Boston: Isaac Knapp, 1838), 111-113; from Paul Lauter, ed. <em>Heath Anthology of American Literature</em>, vol. B, 5th ed. (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2006), 2089.
American Social History Project / Center for Media and Learning
1837
English
Article/Essay
Antebellum America (1816-1860)
Suffragists Demonstrate Against Woodrow Wilson
Social Movements
On October 20, 1916, the National Women's Party (NWP) organized a suffrage demonstration outside of an auditorium in Chicago where President Woodrow Wilson was giving a campaign speech. Wilson, a Democrat, was running for his second term as President. The NWP wanted to put pressure on political candidates to help push through a constitutional amendment guaranteeing women the right to vote. These demonstrators were attacked by a mob.
Burke & Atwell, Chicago
Records of the National Woman's Party Records, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress; Digital ID: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mnwp.276016
1916
Modern America (1914-1929)