BELLWORK Use your textbook to answer the following questions: 1.What was the Montgomery Bus Boycott? (674) 2.What were sit-ins? (677) 3.What are some advantages.

BELLWORK• Use your textbook to answer the following

questions: 1. What was the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

(674)2. What were sit-ins? (677)3. What are some advantages and

disadvantages of non-violent protests?4. What were the freedom rides? (682)5. What was the March on Washington? (686)6. THINKER: Do you think sit-ins were an

effective form of protest? Why or why not?

Civil Rights Groups1. NAACP• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People • Concentrated on desegregation of schools & brought the case

to the Supreme Court2. SCLC• Southern Christian Leadership Conference • Led by MLK and focused on nonviolent protests 3. SNCC• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee• Student organization that practiced civil disobedience

(nonviolent resistance of unfair laws)4. CORE• Congress of Racial Equality• Organized the Freedom Rides; focused on equality for all

• In 1957, Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus refused to enforce integration at Central High School.

• He used the Arkansas National Guard to turn away the nine African American students.

• Mobs of angry protestors gathered to prevent the Little Rock Nine from entering the school.

• President Eisenhower sent soldiers to Arkansas to protect the students.

Little Rock Nine

MLK and Malcolm X• We are going to create a Venn Diagram based on

the similarities and differences of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X.

• To begin, draw two overlapping circles on your notes.

• One side is facts relating ONLY to MLK and the other are facts ONLY about Malcolm X.

• In pairs, one person will read about MLK and the other will read about Malcolm X.

• After you are done, you will share your portion of the diagram with your partner.

• Together, you will come up with their similarities and write them in the overlapping circle.

Reading• Martin Luther King Jr.

–Martin Luther King Jr. (pg. 676)–Decision at Birmingham (pg. 684) –One More Assassination (pg. 694)

• Malcolm X:–New Directions in Civil Rights (pg.

691)–Malcolm X and Black Separatism

(pg. 692-693)

CLOSURE• What is the NAACP?

• What was SNCC?

• What was the SCLC?

• Who were the Little Rock Nine?

• Name one similarity and one difference between Malcolm X and MLK.

Autobiography of Malcolm X• As you know, Malcolm X had very radical

beliefs of separatism and equality.

• His views and practices are extremely different than other black activists at the time (MLK, Rosa Parks, etc.)

• We will now read excerpts from his autobiography and answer some questions.

• Keep an open mind!!! Be respectful!!!