English III: Civil Rights
Projects
Assignment: Choose one of the following (or another, approved by me)
Civil Rights Topics.
Requirements:
1. Write and present a 2-4 minute informational
presentation for the class. Your final grade will come from this
speech. You MAY use an audio-visual aid of some sort if you
wish. If you haven’t been through public speaking, please get a
handout from me about how to best organize your speech (and use
audio-visuals properly). NO, you don’t have to write up a formal,
typed report. The note cards are all that is required.
2. Sources: You will need to consult at least ONE
internet and ONE book/article/print source from the library’s
materials. (We will be going to the library during class to give
you time to work.) You will be required to hand in an MLA Works
Cited page. I will give you a handout on how to do this if you
haven’t done one before.
3. Points: This project will be worth 100 points,
with 50% coming from the content and organization of your speech, so
clear main points are important! Remember introductions with
attention getters and previews as well as conclusions with reviews and
clinchers. The rest of the points will come from your
presentation, your works cited, your notecards, and meeting time
requirements.
4. Note-taking: During your classmates’ reports, you
will be expected to take notes on the information in the
speeches. After all reports are given, you will have an
open-note, true-false quiz.
People/Groups
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Medgar Evers
Ralph Abernathy
Malcolm X
Black Panther Party
Thurgood Marshall
A. Philip Randolf
Rosa Parks & Bus Boycott
NAACP & W.E.B. DuBois
KKK (could be divided)
Roy Wilkins
Jesse Jackson
Ruby Bridges
Booker T. Washington
JFK & Civil Rights
Elijah Muhammad & Black Muslims
Marcus Garvey & UNIA
Emmett Till
Paul Robeson
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Little Rock Nine
James Meredith
Ida B. Wells
Scottsboro Boys
Authors/Entertainers
Maya Angelou
James Baldwin
Gwendolyn Brooks
Ralph Ellison
Lorraine Hansberry
Langston Hughes
Alice Walker
Richard Wright
Alex Haley
Toni Morrison
Marian Anderson
Paul L. Dunbar
Duke Ellington
Billie Holiday
James W. Johnson
Sidney Portier
Athletes/Scientists/
Explorers
Jesse Owens
Althea Gibson
George W. Carver
James Bechwourth
Jackie Robinson
Satchel Paige
Dr. Charles Drews
Arthur Ashe
Wilma Rudolf
Matthew Henson
Muhammed Ali
Benjamin Banneker
Events
Watts Riots - Aug 1965
Freedom Rides - 1961
March on DC - Aug 28, 1963
March on Selma - March 1965
Birmingham, Alabama - 1963
Plessy v. Ferguson - 1896
Civil Rights Act - 1964
Sit-Ins - 1960
Voting Rights Act - 1965
Race Riots - 1967
The Tuskegee Study
Brown v. Board of Education
Assassination of MLK - Apr 4, 1968
Bombing of 16th Street Church-1963
Freedom Summer - 1964
Murders of 3 Civil Rights Workers - Mississippi - 1964
Poor People’s Campaign - 1968
Concepts/Movements
Passive Resistance
Black Nationalism/Black Power
Affirmative Action
Jim Crow Laws
Desegregation of the Military
Freedom Songs