Social Movements and Public Activism
A civil rights movement founded by MLK in 1957 in Atlanta, Georgia.
What was the Southern Christian Leadership Conference?
The first African-American judge to serve on the Supreme Court.
Who was Thurgood Marshall?
The first African American MLB player
Who is Jackie Robinson?
The high School canvas course is an example of this OnRamps pillar.
What is Technology Enhanced Education?
A group of African American students enrolled in the then-segregated Little Rock Central High School.
Who are the Little Rock Nine?
A female labor and civil rights activist who was one of the founders of the United Farmworkers Association and a leader in the 1965 Delano grape strike.
Who is Dolores Huerta?
The first Black woman to win an Olympic gold medal.
Who is Alice Coachman?
OnRamps team members can communicate with instructors and students using this canvas platform.
What is canvas email?
Over a year-long protest against segregation in public transportation in Alabama.
What was the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
Civil rights activists who took interstate buses through the segregated South during the early 1960s.
Who were The Freedom Riders?
A 1950 landmark case revolving around denied application for the University of Texas Law School
What is Sweatt v. Painter?
These Canvas activities help students prepare for each of the HIS 315L units.
What are pre-unit quizzes?
This city in North Carolina was the location of one of the first sit-in protests in the US (starts with G).
What is Greensboro?
A writer whose book "The Feminine Mystique" contributed to the feminist wave of the 1960s.
Who is Betty Friedan?
A 1954 case that ruled segregation of children in public schools unconstitutional
What is Brown v. Board of Education
Encouraging students to spend time on this platform has been shown to increase their college success rates.
What is the High School canvas course?