For this project you will research a person or an event from the Civil Rights Movement
You will prepare a Power Point Presentation and a 2-3 minute speech about your research and why the event/person was significant.
You will then write a follow up journal about what you learned from the experience.
You are responsible to include the following::::
When the event took place and who was involved
The causes of the event
The effects of the event
The significance of the event to the Civil Rights Movement
How does the event relate to A Raisin in the Sun?
How does the event relate to what you learned in Social Studies class
about caste systems?
Tell why this event should be remembered and studied
What have you personally learned from your research about this event?
Include relelvant pictures, graphs, statistics etc
Complete a Works Cited page
Topics:::::::::::::::::::::::::::
Scottsboro Boys**** Montgomery Bus Boycott
Death of Emmett Till**** Little Rock Nine
Freedom Riders**** University of Alabama
Civil Rights Acts of 1964 & 1968**** Caesar Chaves
Birmingham Church Bombing 1963**** Americans with Disabilities Act
Greensboro Lunch Counter Sit Ins**** Title 9
March on Washington
Research Sources::::::::::::::::::::::::::
Gale Student Resources in Context
Biography Database
Civil Rights Movement - Timeline
TheKingCenter
