Agenda for 3/17

1. Read the slides pertaining to the Civil Rights Movement in the slideshow below:

Civil Rights Movement - APUSH Explained Slideshow

2. Watch this US History Crash Course (focus on the Civil Rights content): 1960s in America

3. Civil Rights Adobe Slate Project

A. Download the Adobe Slate app on your iPad

B. Top 25 Events of the Civil Rights Movement

1 Emmett Till's Murder (Hannah, Megan)
2 The Montgomery Bus Boycott (Hannah)
3 Southern School Desegregation (Nina)
4 Non-Violent Protests (Nina)
5 The Freedom Rides (Katie G)
6 The Limits of Non-Violence (Katie G)
7 Project "C" in Birmingham (Alex Hoyt, Anabell)
8 The March on Washington (Alex Hoyt, Megan)
9 Freedom Summer (Edina, Eva)
10 The Freedom March from Selma to Montgomery, AL (Edina)
11 The Nation of Islam and Malcolm X (Iaryna, Spencer)
12 Chicago Freedom Movement (Iaryna, Anabell)
13 Riots in Detroit (Abdullah)
14 "Power to the People" (Abdullah)
15 Poor People's Campaign (Ben)
16 Vietnam and the Civil Rights Movement (Ben)
17 The Black Panther Party (Charlie, Eva)
18 The Attica Prison Riot (Charlie)
19 Blacks Define Themselves (Ethan)
20 The First Black Southern Mayor (Ethan)
21 School Desegregation in Boston (Emily, Spencer)
22 The Bakke Case and Affirmative Action (Emily)
23 Riots in Florida (Kaya)
24 Conflict in Chicago (Kaya , Katie P.)
25 Operation PUSH (Katie P)

Click on this link: Top 25 Events of the Civil Rights Movement to get more information about your assigned events. This is an individual assignment, though some students have been assigned the same events.

C. You should use the included resources from the website site above, your textbook, APUSH explained slideshows, and any outside research to learn about your assigned events.

D. You then need to create an Adobe Slate presentation that includes the following for BOTH of your events:

a. Set the context for your events (what LED up to them, causes)
b. Describe the event itself (what happened?)
c. Explain any important consequences/effects of your event and connect the event to the outcomes of the Civil Rights Movement.
d. Include and ANALYZE (in at least one of these ways: Context, Audience, Purpose, POV) two quotes from the press at the time of your event.
e. provide images related to your event thought the presentation

E. Due Monday 3/21