{"id":609,"date":"2015-11-09T13:59:02","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T13:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/?p=609"},"modified":"2017-01-13T19:01:43","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T19:01:43","slug":"the-constitution-in-political-social-movements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/2015\/11\/the-constitution-in-political-social-movements\/","title":{"rendered":"The Constitution in Political &#038; Social Movements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mon 11\/9<\/strong> Reading: bring textbooks, review the Constitution (it&#8217;s in the Appendix). <\/p>\n<p><strong>Questions to consider:<\/strong><br \/>\nHow important was the Constitution in the civil rights and other social \/ political movements of the 1960s?<br \/>\nWhat were the legal, legislative and Constitutional milestones in that struggle?<br \/>\nHow does this living document remain relevant &#8212; both as a legacy of that generation and in our own time?<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/res.publicdomainfiles.com\/pdf_view\/29\/13512144611230.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/res.publicdomainfiles.com\/pdf_view\/29\/13512144611230.jpg\" width=\"475\" height=\"316\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Links for today: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/constitutioncenter.org\/experience\/programs-initiatives\/past-programs\/the-civil-rights-movement-redefining-the-meaning-of-equality\">Civil Rights Movement: Redefining the Meaning of Equality<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/history.house.gov\/Exhibitions-and-Publications\/BAIC\/Historical-Data\/Constitutional-Amendments-and-Legislation\/\">Constitutional Amendments and Major Legislation<\/a> (History of the House of Representatives)<br \/>\nDiane Rehm Show series &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/thedianerehmshow.org\/topic\/the-constitution-today\">The Constitution Today<\/a>&#8221;<br \/>\nSteven Schwinn, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanbar.org\/publications\/insights_on_law_andsociety\/14\/winter-2014\/civil-rights-act-of-1964--enduring-and-revolutionary.html\">Civil Rights Act of 1964: Enduring and Revolutionary<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>President Lyndon Johnson&#8217;s Voting Rights Act speech to Congress 15 March 1965<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MxEauRq1WxQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>(full speech <a href=\"http:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?153273-1\/president-lyndon-johnson-address-voting-rights\">here<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/millercenter.org\/president\/speeches\/speech-3386\">transcript<\/a> here) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mon 11\/9 Reading: bring textbooks, review the Constitution (it&#8217;s in the Appendix). Questions to consider: How important was the Constitution in the civil rights and other social \/ political movements of the 1960s? What were the legal, legislative and Constitutional milestones in that struggle? How does this living document remain relevant &#8212; both as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-class","tag-fall15"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}