Lesson used to teach the Civil Rights Movement

3. Emmett Till Citation (Chicago Manual of Style) PBS. "American Experience: The Murder of Emmett Till." unitedstreaming: http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com /

4. He was killed for saying something like Subject to disclaimers. “bye baby!” to a white woman. Bryant’s Store in Money, Mississippi where Emmett Till said the words that led to his death. I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.

7. Open Casket

9. Why Were They on Strike? Walking Buzzards Wages and working conditions for Memphis sanitation workers were atrocious. The average pay was $1.80 an hour. The wages were so low that forty percent of the workers qualified for welfare and many worked second jobs. They lifted leaky garbage tubs into decrepit trucks and were treated unfairly. During foul weather, black workers were sent home without pay while the white workers were paid a full day. There were neither benefits, vacation, nor pension. The sanitation department refused to modernize ancient equipment used by the black workers. Black sanitation workers were called "walking buzzards." http://www.reuther.wayne.edu/MAN/2Memphis.htm

10. The Strike Begins On a rainy February afternoon, two black sanitation workers sat inside the back of a garbage truck to stay dry. Old and poorly maintained, an electrical short in its wiring caused the compressor to start running, and Echol Cole and Robert Walker were crushed to death. The Memphis Sanitation Department gave the families of each worker a months pay plus $500 for funeral expenses. No city official attended the funerals and no further compensation was extended.

11. On the evening of February 11, a meeting with sanitation workers was held to discuss the recent deaths, partial pay on rainy days and safety conditions. They ultimately decided that enough was enough and voted to strike. This Strike is what brought Martin Luther King to Memphis where he was shot & killed.

24. Linda Brown Citation (Chicago Manual of Style) United Learning. "Civil Rights: The Long Road to Equality." unitedstreaming: http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com / Civil Rights: The Long Road to Equality

27. Bringing It Home To Alabama Rosa Parks was a tailor at a department store. She rode the bus each day. The front seats were for whites only.

34. President Dwight D. Eisenhower He ordered the 101st Airborne Division into Little Rock to insure the safety of the "Little Rock Nine” & to be sure they got into the school just as the Supreme Court had ordered.

44. Bloody Sunday Bloody Sunday" occurred on March 7, 1965, when 600 civil rights marchers were attacked by state and local police with billy clubs and tear gas.