We Shall Overcome, a unit on the U.S. Civil Rights Movement.

This unit will cover the U.S. Civil Rights Movement during the 1950's and 1960's.

Goals:
 Students will learn about the well known leaders of the civil rights movement.

1. Rosa Parks
2. Martin Luther King Jr.
3. Malcolm X
4. Medgar Evers

Students will learn about other key figures and organizations involved in the Civil Rights Movement.

1. President Lyndon Johnson
2. Rosa Parks
3. Muhammad Ali
4. SNCC
5. Black Panthers

Schedule of the Unit.

Lesson 1:  The South before the 1960s
Lesson 2:  The Montgomery Bus Boycott
Lesson 3:  Other movements, Little Rock High School, the Woolworth Sit-ins, The March on Washington, Selma 1965.
Lesson 4: Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, and the Black Panthers.
Lesson 5:   The results of the 1960s

Students will write a paper on their views of the movement and why it was an important time.  A test will also be given over the information of the unit.