Civil Rights

 Due Friday, Feb. 23: Two Paragraphs on an event carried out by your movement or that affected the movement you are studying.  (Each member of your group is investigating a different event).


Due Monday, Feb. 27: Read pages 524-539

Due Friday, Mar. 2
Essay 2: Civil Rights
See file attached below.


Due April 2
Read Chapter 18: The Impossible Victory: Vietnam Pages 469-501
Coming Soon: I will give you questions to answer from the chapter on Friday. Those will also be posted here.

 

DUE Friday, 3/16

Write Two Paragraphs on a Current Event:

Find a current event on a topic that would have been a concern to your movement. (For example: if you are studying the Black Panthers, find a current event that deals with race relations or racial inequality).

 

1. Summarize the event.

2. How do you think your movement would have reacted to it if they were around today? Would they use the same tactics today as in the 1960s or 1970s? Explain.

Link to Documentary on the 1969 occupation of Alcatraz
Alcatraz is not an Island


Link to PBS documentary on Wounded Knee:

We shall Remain -- part 5 

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1) Bring your three cited sources with you to the final!

2)   Friday: Final presentations for groups that have not presented yet will be Friday, 5/18 -- Absolute last day to bring and distribute final projects.

3)   BRING A THIRD CITED SOURCE for ESSAY 4: Primary Source
Due Wed/Thurs, 5/16  5/17
On your topic. (see topics below)
Bring in a printed source on your topic from a relevant Newspaper article.
(
We have already brought in a source on legislation/ Supreme Court decision and a Newspaper Source. Now, bring in a primary source.)
(No Wikipedia, Ask.com, etc. – See links page on website).
1-2 pgs. – internet source (printed source max 4 pgs).

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Topics to choose from:

Women’s Rights movement
LGBTQ movement
‘80s – War on Drugs
‘90s – NAFTA or Gulf War
War on Terror.



A link to the video we watched on Wed./Thu.: Selling the First Gulf War 

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