Civil Rights Project
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Emmett Till
Rosa Parks/Bus Boycott
Desegregation/Little Rock/Ole Miss
SNCC and Freedom Rides
Alabama/Birmingham/Bomingham
Mississippi and Freedom Summer
Marches to Selma and Montgomery
Nation of Islam/Malcolm X/Black Panthers
Wars on Poverty/Race Riots/Robert Kennedy/Poor People’s March
Research the following information about your topic
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Time frame of event
Location(s) of event
People involved
Actions/Reactions
Importance of event to Civil Rights Movement
Impact on Americans
Requirements
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Minimum ten power point slides
Minimum three sources (one will be PBS Eyes of the Prize)
Video clips (optional)-no more than four minutes of total presentation
Minimum five photos
Music can earn bonus points
PBS Video Series
Eyes on the Prize
Volume I episode 1
Brown vs Board of Education 9:03 – 11:31
Emmett Till 11:22 – 26:40
Rosa Parks 26:57 – end of episode 1
Volume 1 episode 2
Desegregation/Little Rock/Ole Miss 1:55 – end of episode 2
Volume II episode 3
SNCC 23:17 – 27:41, Freedom Riders 27:41 – 55:00
Volume II episode 4
Alabama/Birmingham/Bombingham/Project C 1:50 – 5:49, 21:50 – 49:00
Martin Luther King, Jr. Speech 49:15 – end of episode 4
Volume III episode 5
Mississippi and Freedom Summer/Medgar Evers 8:50 – 42:00
Volume III episode 6
Marches to Selma and Montgomery 15:00 – 58:00
Volume IV episode 7
Nation of Islam/Malcolm X/Black Panthers entire episode 7
Volume V episode 10
War on Poverty, Robert Kennedy/Riots/Poor People’s Campaign 9:27 – to end
Volume 1 Episode 1 “Awakenings” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVB2AlVpt0I
Volume 1 Episode 2 “Fighting Back” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTbCGf3x-Fw
Volume 2 Episode 3 “Ain’t Scared of Your Jails”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAmt_XKBBAM
Volume 2 Episode 4 “No Easy Walk” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJ7k4wMdV5g
Volume 3 Episode 5 “Mississippi: Is This America?”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEG-EbfWsWM
Volume 3 Episode 6 “Bridge to Freedom” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEG-EbfWsWM
Volume 4 Episode 7 “The Time Has Come” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z16xtgaFhg4
Volume 5 Episode 10 “The Promised Land”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wgL-xQMWwE