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Good Morning!!!!. NVC/Collect Papers Failure of Reconstruction in the South Emmett Till: Birth of the Civil Rights Movement Essential Question : How did Southerners justify the brutal murder of Emmett Till? Homework : finish Emmett Till activity. Spoke Diagram Pg. 568-570. No public busing.

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  1. Good Morning!!!! • NVC/Collect Papers • Failure of Reconstruction in the South • Emmett Till: Birth of the Civil Rights Movement Essential Question: How did Southerners justify the brutal murder of Emmett Till? Homework: finish Emmett Till activity

  2. Spoke Diagram Pg. 568-570 No public busing • Copy the spoke diagram below into your notebook. • In each of the six ovals around the center oval, list one area of life discussed in Section 44.2 (pg. 568-570) in which blacks experienced segregation. • Near each of those six ovals, list as many examples as you can that show how segregation affected Americans during this era.

  3. Reconstruction • Reconstruction(1865-1877): rebuilding the South post-Civil War and healing the nation’s wounds • 13th Amendment: abolishes slavery • 14th Amendment: blacks are citizens and equal before the law • 15th Amendment: guarantees right to vote

  4. “The Great Betrayal” • Compromise of 1877: disputed Presidential election of 1876 • Hayes (Northern Republican) vs. Tilden (Southern Democrat) • Hayes given Presidency, agrees to end Reconstruction • Known as the “Great Betrayal”

  5. Failures of Reconstruction • Southern Democrats aim to save South by “returning it to the white man’s rule” • Poll Taxes and Literacy Tests stop blacks from voting • Jim Crow Laws create segregation • Ku Klux Klan terrorizes blacks through lynching

  6. The Story of Emmett Till • Emmett Tillwas a 14 year old black boy from Chicago. He came to Money, Mississippi to visit relatives. On August 28, 1955 Emmett Till was brutally murdered for “whistling” at a white woman. Despite overwhelming evidence, his killers were set free after a short trial. The case fired up the nation.

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  8. How did Southerners justify the brutal murder of Emmett Till?

  9. How did Southerners justify the brutal murder of Emmett Till? • Historians and sociologists today still argue over how people are able to justify such disgusting acts of racial violence in their minds. Today we seek to answer that question looking at the case of Emmett Till. How did Southerners justify the brutal murder of Emmett Till? • Read through Documents A-D and collect evidence supporting the THREE HYPOTHESES at the top of your graphic organizer • You need to find TWO PIECES OF EVIDENCE for each hypothesis. Be sure to record both the SOURCE information and a QUOTATION

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