Leave it to Beaver

1. Leave it to Beaver • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sam9wP_uMEA • What impression does this video give you of the 1950s? • What expectations does Mr. Beaver have for his wife? • Do you think gender roles have changed since then? How so?

2. Consumer Culture • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKY2O4KFmMU&feature=related • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i5J6AzCt0g&feature=relmfu • Who might the intended audience of these ads be? • How could you relate this commercial to one of the other changes you learned about in your gallery walk?

3. Elvis (Rock and Roll) • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWFQKxx449o&feature=related • Do you think Elvis’s dance moves are inappropriate? • How does his choreography compare to modern day music videos?

4. Prosperity • a successful, flourishing, or thriving condition, especially in financial respects; good fortune.

5. When people refer to civil rights, what are they talking about? • What can a citizen expect of the government? • What options do citizens have when their rights are being violated?

6. Civil Right • http://www.visuwords.com/ • rights to personal liberty established by the 13th and 14th Amendments to the U.S. constitution and certain Congressional acts, especially as applied to an individual or a minority group. • the rights to full legal, social, and economic equality extended to blacks.

7. Lynching

8. 3-2-1 • Write down • 3 things you learned in class. • 2 things which you found surprising • 1 question you still have

9. Civil Rights Movement (Literacy Test)

10. #1 • Which of the following is a right guaranteed by the Bill of Rights? • A. public education • B. employment • C. trial by jury • D. voting

11. #2 • The federal census of population is taken every five years. • A. True • B. False

12. #3 • If a person is indicted for a crime, name two rights he has.

13. #4 • A U. S. senator elected at the general election in November takes office the following year on what date?

14. #5 • Which definition applies to the word “amendment?” • A. proposed change, as in a Constitution • B. make of peace between nations at wars • C. a part of the government

15. Anti-miscegenation lawsLoving v. Virginia

16. Literacy Test

17. Education

18. Transportation

19. 13th Amendment • Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. • Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

20. 14th Amendment • Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

21. 15th Amendment • Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. • Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation

22. Brown v. Board of Education • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTGHLdr-iak • What implications did this court ruling have on American education? • What kinds of disadvantages did segregated schooling have on minorities?

23. Controversy • Busing • Private schools, parochial schools, vouchers • Southern reaction • “all deliberate speed” • “white flight” • What benefits come from desegregation and increased diversity in schools? • What disadvantages resulted from desegregation? • Do the benefits outweigh the disadvantages?

24. Civil Rights Act of 1964 • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LK2GdOxz3s0 • http://millercenter.org/president/speeches/detail/3525 • What did the Civil Rights Act do? • Does it surprise you that President Johnson would support such legislation?

25. LBJ remarks after signing bill • We believe that all men are created equal. Yet many are denied equal treatment. We believe that all men have certain unalienable rights. Yet many Americans do not enjoy those rights. We believe that all men are entitled to the blessings of liberty. Yet millions are being deprived of those blessings—not because of their own failures, but because of the color of their skin. The reasons are deeply imbedded in history and tradition and the nature of man. We can understand—without rancor or hatred—how this all happened. But it cannot continue. Our Constitution, the foundation of our Republic, forbids it. The principles of our freedom forbid it. Morality forbids it. And the law I will sign tonight forbids it. • July 2, 1964 (Miller Center)

26. What hardships did the Civil Rights Act address? • Travel • Job discrimination • Public facilities • Where did Congress draw their authority to legislate in all these areas? • Commerce clause

27. Voting Rights Act of 1965 • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxEauRq1WxQ • http://millercenter.org/president/speeches/detail/3386 • How does President Johnson attempt to unify the country in his speech? What evidence can you find from the video?

28. LBJ speaks before Congress • There is no Negro problem. There is no Southern problem. There is no Northern problem. There is only an American problem. And we are met here tonight as Americans—not as Democrats or Republicans--we are met here as Americans to solve that problem.

This was the first nation in the history of the world to be founded with a purpose. The great phrases of that purpose still sound in every American heart, North and South: "All men are created equal"—"government by consent of the governed"—"give me liberty or give me death." Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories. In their name Americans have fought and died for two centuries, and tonight around the world they stand there as guardians of our liberty, risking their lives.

Those words are a promise to every citizen that he shall share in the dignity of man. This dignity cannot be found in a man's possessions; it cannot be found in his power, or in his position. It really rests on his right to be treated as a man equal in opportunity to all others. It says that he shall share in freedom, he shall choose his leaders, educate his children, and provide for his family according to his ability and his merits as a human being. • March 15, 1965 (Miller Center)

29. What long-term consequences did the Voting Rights Act have? • Many Southern states and counties in other areas are still required to get approval from the Department of Justice before changing any laws affecting voting • Still in effect today • Texas still has issues with the VRA • When redistricting

31. Take out a sheet of notebook paper • Write down something that you didn’t understand during class and what you think might help you to get it.