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Civil Rights
Equal Rights

Google Expeditions

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Check out the Google Expeditions on The Civil Rights Movement and Women's Suffrage in the United States. Take your kids on a virtual field trip using the Google Expeditions app or contact your Instructional Technology Facilitator to check out a class set of VR goggles. ​Use this lesson plan template to help plan out your Expedition lesson. 


Reaction to Brown v. Board of Education Ruling 

On May 17, 1954, U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren delivered the unanimous ruling against the "separate but equal" mandate and demanded desegregation of schools. Outside the courtroom, the attorneys who argued the Brown v. Board of Education case, James Nabrit Jr., Thurgood Marshall and George Hayes, give a press conference.
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The attorneys above predicted "the law abiding South [would] accept the Court's decision." Some school districts in the South desegregated peacefully. In others, resistance resulted in violence that required federal intervention. For example, in 1960, six years after the decision, federal marshals had to escort four African American girls so they could enroll in their New Orleans school.

Student Task

Once you have talked about the Brown v. Board of Education ruling, play the audio clip above so students can hear how those attorneys felt the South would react to the ruling. Then, allow students to research and create a product that shows their understanding of how schools in Texas proved the above quote, "the law abiding South [would] accept the Court's decision" wrong.

Students should include answers to the following essential questions in their product:
  • Why do you think Texas was slow slow to desegregate our schools?
  • How do you feel about a state governor ignoring federal decisions, and even Texas lawmakers passing laws that resist federally ordered integration?
  • Discuss the similarities in the struggle for rights experienced by African Americans, Mexican Americans, and women in Texas after World War II.

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  • Home
  • Resources
    • Mapping Project
    • Our Beliefs
    • About Me
  • 1st 6 Weeks
    • Primary/Secondary Sources
    • Texas Regions
    • Early People of Texas
    • Celebrate Freedom Week
    • Vocabulary Check
    • Chapter 7 Assessment
    • Teacher Braglet
  • 2nd 6 Weeks
    • Spanish Colonial Texas
    • Spanish Texas
    • Anglo American Colonization
    • The Road to Revolution
    • Vocabulary Check
    • Chapter 8 Assessment
    • Chapter 9 Assessment
    • Teacher Braglet
  • 3rd 6 Weeks
    • Texas Revolution
    • Chapter 10 Assessment
    • The Alamo & Goliad
    • Chapter 11 Assessment
    • Texas Wins Independence
    • Chapter 12 Assessment
    • Vocabulary Check
    • Semester Review
    • Teacher Resources
  • 4th 6 Weeks
    • The Republic of Texas
    • Life in the New Republic
    • The Lone Star State
    • The Civil War
    • Reconstruction
    • Vocabulary Check
    • Teacher Resources
  • 5th 6 Weeks
    • Conflict on the Frontier
    • Cattle & Cotton
    • Challenges & Progress
    • Oil & A New Century
    • World War I & the 1920s
    • The Great Depression
    • Vocabulary Check
  • 6th 6 Weeks
    • World War II
    • Civil Rights & Equal Rights
    • Modern Texas
    • Arts & Culture of Texas
    • Texas Government