REQUIREMENTS FOR STRUCTURE OF FINAL ESSAY

Below are two links that will help  you write your final essay:

1.  Below is a link to help with the structure of the body paragraphs

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1a9gwVG7bEek5WULP2C4bZ_55SgjSQkRt8k_U3HqU8e8/edit

2.  Below is a link to help with the structure of the overall essay:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ke4YA47GalA24nX19EjTLQDWagcZvM7XClAag9D6O7w/edit

NEW REQUIREMENTS FOR RESEARCH AND ESSAY

Please see link below instructions:

docs.google.com/document/d/1C67I9gikGg9Q8_QzCF-4NgKm1DBWpLfZkfG452Qre38/edit

ALERT ABOUT CIVIL RIGHTS TOPICS - PERIOD 8

Below are a list of Civil Rights topics that have yet to be chosen.  For those of you who have yet to choose your topic, you must choose from the list below:

• Failures of the Civil Rights Movement
• Chicago campaign to desegregate housing, to end inequality in schools, and to end unfair hiring practices
• Student NonViolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
• Role of the federal government in either assisting the Civil Rights Movement or setting up obstacles
• Analysis of a famous speech by Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Huey Newton
• Analyzing MLK’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail”
• The role of white allies in the Civil Rights Movement
• Efforts of Ella Baker and COFO (Congress of Federated Organizations) to organize local communities and decentralize the leadership of the Civil Rights Movement (Fannie Hammer is a good example of this decentralization)

ALERT ABOUT CIVIL RIGHTS TOPICS-PERIOD 7

Due May 17

I have received a few requests for topics. Those of you who have not yet submitted a topic, the list is now shorter.  Here are the options that remain:

• Differences and similarities between Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.
• Non-violent Civil Disobedience as it relates to the Civil Rights Movement
• Desegregation of public facilities (Campaigns in Montgomery, Birmingham, North Carolina
• Poor People’s Campaign (focus on economic inequality)
• Achievements of the Civil Rights Movement (laws, policies)
• Impact of the Brown v. Board of Education ruling
• Chicago campaign to desegregate housing, to end inequality in schools, and to end unfair hiring practices
• Mississippi Freedom Riders
• Analysis of a famous speech by Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Huey Newton
• Efforts of Ella Baker and COFO (Congress of Federated Organizations) to organize local communities and decentralize the leadership of the Civil Rights Movement (Fannie Hammer is a good example of this decentralization)

FINAL PROJECT

Below is a link to the instruction sheet for the final project.

docs.google.com/document/d/1k03UpmnkH3M3ubY9yrN3spEJ1ieeZ2yCC70pfFgcRDM/edit

QUESTIONS FOR "FREEDOM NOW PACKET"

Due Friday, May 13

Here is a link to the questions:

docs.google.com/document/d/13cJyeHiJ4xU6qyGmrREeYXV04bcu17honzaN-19OZIs/edit

ACTIVISM IN THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Due Monday, May 9

Read the handout, "Freedom Now:  The Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi."  The purpose of the reading is to describe and explain the importance of activists and their organizations in achieving equal rights. Please highlight and annotate the following:

* Key organizations and groups(include purpose, successes)
*  Key leaders and participants and their contributions
*  Key tactics or actions used to achieve change
*  Reaction of local whites to the movement in Mississippi.
*  Reaction of the the federal government to the Civil Rights Movement