ROD SERLING CLOSING NARRATION FROM TWILIGHT ZONE: THE MONSTERS ARE DUE ON MAPLE STREET

“The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices - to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own - for the children and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to The Twilight Zone.
[closing narration: "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street", Twilight Zone episode aired March 4, 1960”

CIVIL RIGHTS OUTLINE

Social Movements in the 1960s

I. Civil Rights:

            A. Enforcing Segregation:

1. Culturally:

2. Legally: Plessy v Ferguson (1896)

            B. Fighting Segregation:

                        1. NAACP

                        2. Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

                                    a. Brown II

                                    b. Resisting Justice:

Little Rock Central High School (1957)

                                                Orval Faubus

                        3. Rosa Parks and the Bus Boycott:

                        4. Emmitt Till

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"...get the FBI on the case..."

August 30, 1955

To: Mr. Gloster B. Current, Director, Branches NAACP, New York, New York
From: Medgar W. Evers, Field Secretary, Mississippi

On Sunday, August 28 at 2 A.M., a fourteen year old Negro boy, Emmett Till of Chicago, was forced from his home at Money, Leflore County, Mississippi, by three white men and a white woman who alleged that Till had made remarks that were displeasing to a white grocery owner's wife. One man has been apprehended by the Sheriff of Leflore County, the other man is being sought. If it is possible to get the FBI on the case, maybe we can get some results.

"...lynch hysteria..."

Telegram

September 1, 1955

To: Bert Crownell, Attorney General's Office
From: Bernard Lucas, President, Warehouse Distribution, Union Local 208, Chicago. Illinois

We are convinced that the brutal and savage lynching of Emmett Till in Mississippi is part of the lynch hysteria being whipped up in the South to impede the desegregation of the public school system as decreed by the Supreme Court. Therefore we demand that you take the necessary steps to prosecute those responsible for this lynching and to also prosecute those who are whipping up the lynch hysteria.

"...kill them rats..."

Postcard

Postmarked September 25, 1955, Cleveland Ohio

To: Attorney Gerald Chatham, Criminal Court, Sumner, Mississippi

Kill them rats or die yourselves. Kill them! Or we are blowing up your hole Goddam town -- every stinking ass.

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--other letter reactions

“Emmett Till and I were about the same age. A week after he was murdered... I stood on the corner with a gang of boys, looking at pictures of him in the black newspapers and magazines. In one, he was laughing and happy. In the other, his head was swollen and bashed in, his eyes bulging out of their sockets and his mouth twisted and broken. His mother had done a bold thing. She refused to let him be buried until hundreds of thousands marched past his open casket in Chicago and looked down at his mutilated body. [I] felt a deep kinship to him when I learned he was born the same year and day I was. My father talked about it at night and dramatized the crime. I couldn't get Emmett out of my mind...”     

 Muhammed Ali

“I was fifteen years old when I began to hate people. I hated the white men who murdered Emmett Till and I hated all the other whites who were responsible for the countless murders... But I also hated Negroes. I hated them for not standing up and doing something about the murders.”         Ann Moody

5. The Sit-Ins:

6. Freedom Rides:

7. JFK:

a. Civil Rights Act of 1964

b. Voting Rights Act of 1965

            --Fannie Lou Hammer

II. OTHER MOVEMENTS:

A.              UFW

B.              Anti-War

C.              American Indian Movement

D.             Women’s Movement

E.              Environment

COLD WAR TERMS

COLD WAR TERMS                                                                                 

38^th Parallel     

Bay of Pigs

Berlin Blockade/Berlin Airlift

Berlin Wall

Containment Policy

Cuban Missile Crisis

Domino Theory

George Kennan

HUAC—House Un-American Activities Committee

Hungarian Uprising

Iron Curtain Speech

Marshall Plan

NATO

NSC-68

Sen. Joseph McCarthy

Truman Doctrine

U-2 Incident

United Nations

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Warsaw Pact

Yalta Conference

IN CLASS WORK ON THE ATOMIC BOMB

RESTRICTED SECURITY INFORMATION

                                                                                                                        JULY 17, 1945

MEMORANDUM FOR: PRESIDENT TRUMAN

SUBJECT:        THE ATOMIC BOMB

(Bases on the sources you examined, what is the proper course of action for the President to take?)

WORLD WAR TWO

"The war was fun for America. I'm not talking about the poor souls who lost sons and daughters. But for the rest of us, the war was a hell of a good time."

"The war changed our whole idea of how we wanted to live when we got back. We set our sights pretty high. All of us wanted better levels of living."

"Ours was the only country among the combatants in World War Two that was neither invaded not bombed. Ours were the only cities not blasted to rubble."

"This neighbor told me that what we needed was a damn good war, and we'd solve our agricultural problems. And I said, 'Yes, but I'd hate to pay for it with my son. Which we did.' He weeps. 'It's too much of a price to pay.'"

“The military took over the islands completely. If you failed to go to work, the police would be at your door and you were arrested. You had to do something, filling sandbags, anything. If you called in sick, a nurse would come to your house to check on you. If you failed to be there or were goofing off, you went to jail.”

“I personally shot one Japanese woman because she was coming across a field at night. We set up a perimeter. Anything in front, we’d shoot it. This one night I shot and when it came daylight, it was a woman there and a baby tied to her back. The bullet had gone all the way through her and out the baby’s back. That still bothers me, that hounds me. I still feel I committed murder.”

“There were some sailors down at the beach. Apparently, they got into some kind of confrontation with these zoot-suits. A sailor had been stabbed, that was the word. When the word got back to San Diego, where all the servicemen were—well, you know the navy and marines(laughs). This was in June ’43. Thousands of servicemen came up in masse. They started out in East L.A. They started grabbing anybody that had a zoot suit on. Anybody wearing that was fairgame. They just really did a number on ‘em—ripped their clothes up, beat em up. Then it spread downtown, and the police really had a problem.”

ISOLATION AND THE ROAD TO WORLD WAR TWO

I. Intro:

         Abraham Lincoln Brigade

II. PEACE IN THE 1920s

         A. Isolation

         B. Washington Conference

         C. Kellogg-Briand Pact

         D. The Peace Movement

III. ISOLATION TO WAR

         A. Isolationist Tension:

                     1. Reciprocal Trade Agreement Act (1934)

“Foreign markets must be regained if producers are to rebuild a full and enduring domestic prosperity.” (FDR)

                     2. Nye Committee

                     3. Neutrality Acts

FDR: “no state has the right to intervene in the internal or external affairs of another.”

                     4. Ludlow Amendment

         B. Non-Belligerence:

                     1. Stockpile Act

                     2. Educational Orders Act

                     3. Civilian War Resources Board

                     4. Lend-Lease

                     5. The Atlantic Charter

         C. War: Attack of Pearl Harbor

IV. War:

                     16 million men and women entered
                     1/8^th in combat

                     33 months=average time of service          

Four Freedoms:

“Freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, freedom from fear.”

D-Day

Deception in Modern War

                                 Operation Fortitude

                                 Operation Skye

                                 British Fourth Army

                                 First U.S. Army Group

June 6, 1944 (to June 11, 1944)

--4,100 landing craft

--12,000 landing support aircraft

-- 1,000 air transports (paratroopers)

--10,000 tons of bombs dropped

--14,000 attack sorties flown.

--in all, 47 divisions (140,000 troops)

World War Two was a Total War:

What does that mean?

HOW DOES THE WAR END?

Hiroshima: August 6, 1945 (100,000 dead)

                                             (Little Boy)

Nagasaki: August 8, 1945 (35,000 dead)

                                             (Fat Man)