Week 20: Jan 17-20, 2k23

Monday, January 16, 2023 - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

In the eleven-year period between 1957 and 1968, King traveled over six million miles and spoke over twenty-five hundred times, appearing wherever there was injustice, protest, and action; and meanwhile he wrote five books as well as numerous articles.

In these years, he led a massive protest in Birmingham, Alabama, that caught the attention of the entire world, providing what he called a coalition of conscience and inspiring his “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”, a manifesto of the Negro revolution; he planned the drives in Alabama for the registration of Negroes as voters; he directed the peaceful march on Washington, D.C., of 250,000 people to whom he delivered his address, “l Have a Dream”, he conferred with President John F. Kennedy and campaigned for President Lyndon B. Johnson.

King was arrested upwards of twenty times and assaulted at least four times; he was awarded five honorary degrees; was named Man of the Year by Time magazine in 1963; and became not only the symbolic leader of American blacks but also a world figure.

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Day 1 

In Class: Review the different themes from Westward Expansion 1820-1850ish

• Mountain Men
• Slaveowners
• 49ers/Gold Rush
• Oregon Trail
• Native Americans
• Spanish Mexico & Mexican War

HW:  The Era of Reform Google Doc & HW Assignment

Day 2 & 3

In Class:  The Mini-Industrial Revolution of the 1830s-1850s

• Sewing machine
• Guns!
• Farming...
• Photography
• Railroads!
• Morse Code