The Civil Rights Movement

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Digital History textbook:

1960s, http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/era.cfm?eraID=17&smtid=2 (Links to an external site.)

In preparation for the final exam, be able to describe (what is it and when was it?) and analyze (what is its wider significance to the history of the United States?): 

Oliver Brown; Rosa Parks; Little Rock's Central High School; Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; Greensboro sit-in; "freedom riders"; the Civil Rights Act; the Voting Rights Act; Black Nationalism; Students for a Democratic Society; The Feminine Mystique; National Organization for Women; Roe v. Wade; Mexican Americans; the American Indian Movement; the Stonewall Inn; environmentalism; Ralph Nader

Select significant passages from at least three of the following primary sources for your Primary Source Annotation:

Robert F. Williams, Negroes with Guns (1962), https://libcom.org/files/Robert%20Franklin%20Williams%20-%20Negroes%20with%20guns.pdf (Links to an external site.)

Rachel Carson, Silent Spring (1962) (excerpts), https://faculty.uml.edu/sgallagher/SilentSpring.pdf

Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique (1963) (excerpts), https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/ows/seminars/tcentury/FeminineMystique.pdf (Links to an external site.)

Oriental Student Sit-in (1971), https://depts.washington.edu/civilr/aa_osu.htm

Chicano/a Movement in Seattle (various documents), https://depts.washington.edu/civilr/mecha_documents.htm (Links to an external site.)

LGBTQ Activism in Seattle History Project (various photos and documents), https://depts.washington.edu/civilr/lgbtq_photos.htm (Links to an external site.)

Post Primary Source Annotation and Comments on at least five other students' annotations

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