Warm-Up: Our country was founded on the words above—what do they mean to you TODAY? How has their meaning changed over time?

1957: Little Rock Nine in Arkansas

 : Lunch Counter Sit-ins

Freedom Rides 1961

 September 1961: ICC enforces desegregation of public transportation

February 1965: Malcom X assassinated by Black Muslims

August 1965 Watts Riot

: Riots in more than 100 cities

October 1966: Black Panther Party founded -Militant -Socialist

 Black Panther Party  What We Want Now!(1966)  We want freedom. We want power to determine the destiny of our Black Community.  We want full employment for our people.  We want an end to the robbery by the white men of our Black Community.  We want decent housing, fit for shelter of human beings.  We want education for our people that exposes the true nature of this decadent American society. We want education that teaches us our true history and our role in the present day society.  We want all Black men to be exempt from military service.  We want an immediate end to POLICE BRUTALITY and MURDER of Black people.  We want freedom for all Black men held in federal, state, county and city prisons and jails.  We want all Black people when brought to trial to be tried in court by a jury of their peer group or people from their Black Communities, as defined by the Constitution of the United States.  We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice and peace.

 Fold you paper into fourths and label four columns:  Equality has been achieved  Significant Progress has been made  No progress has been made  Attitudes towards race today  Evaluate each statistic as a group and decide which column it belongs in.  Each person write a sentence in the appropriate column summarizing what that statistic says.  After you complete looking at those statistics, individually answer the questions I pass out to you.