Please view and take notes on It’s a Free Country Video and/or Professor Patters
Please view and take notes on It’s a Free Country Video and/or Professor Patterson’s lecture below on Civil Rights and also read the Civil Rights chapter in the textbook. Patterson Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La9bH58cBwQ After doing so, answer the following questions: 1. Briefly summarize the history of Civil Rights in the United States. 2. Next, explain what the ramifications were of the Supreme Court’s 1954 decision in Brown vs Board of Education. How did this expand civil rights in the US. 3. Finally, explain the importance of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Additional resources below: Civil Rights Movement The Civil Rights Movement in America 1945 to 1968 Voting Rights Ac (The History Channel) Voting Rights Act (The Leadership Conference) History of Voting Rights—https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URMb2D3kFZQ