After studying this UNIT, students will be able to:

*Describe the legal and social challenges to racial

Segregation in the 1940s and 1950s

*Compare and contrast the presidencies of Kennedy

And Johnson

*Discuss the areas of civil rights that groups tried to

Improve in the 1960s

*Trace the effects of the civil rights movement on

Minorities other than African Americans

March 18^th—Quiz on Famous People & Events: Lee Harvey Oswald, Little Rock 9, JFK, LBJ,

Rosa Parks, George Wallace, Medgar Evers, Ella Baker, Black Panthers, James Meredith,

Dwight Eisenhower, Malcolm X, Thurgood Marshall, Ceasar Chavez, Americans with Disabilities,

Orval Faubus, Linda Brown, NAACP, Betty Friedan, KKK, Stokely Carmichael, NOW, Robert Kennedy,

Russell Means, Martin Luther King Jr.

March 19^th-- Students will have started their write-ups on the events

March 22^nd—Last day to work on project—students should be wrapping

Up all research and should be constructing their final project

March 25^th—Project Due, presentations of projects begin