We began class today with a look at the March on Washington from August, 1963. We narrowed our focus to an examination of the speech that John Lewis prepared to give and the one that he actually gave during the rally on the National Mall. Here is a
LINK to those documents. We then watched
Eyes on the Prize: Power and the Vote which introduced Malcolm X and followed the activities of activists from SNCC and CORE in Mississippi during Freedom Summer of 1964. You can see the video by watching both of these clips:
Power and the Vote 1 and
Power and the Vote 2. After our discussion about Freedom Summer, we watched the next phase of the movement in
Eyes on the Prize: Selma which showed the continued pressure applied by activists as they planned a march from Selma to Montgomery in the winter of 1965 to highlight the voting discrimination that continued to plague Alabama and other areas of the South. You can see the video by watching both of these clips:
Selma 1 and
Selma 2.
After Mr. Kramer explained the
Voting Rights Act of 1965, students were given a
series of current articles and statements by John Lewis, concerning the current status of voting rights as well as commentary on the Michael Brown and Eric Garner cases. Students were asked to read those for Friday and potentially use them as a basis for Friday's "Sharing Your Voice" activity (see the post from earlier this week).
All of our notes and reflections today were done in a different format than normal. Instead of using our journals, we put details, quotations, reflections, images, and interpretations on big paper, forming a collage of ideas from these periods. Here is an example:
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| Rachel's 1964-65 Collage |
