Mississippi Burning Project

-You will be completing a project, which you have already begun! (#2 Segregation Packet, which you better not have lost…do not ask me for a new one).

-Most of what you will need will be on the class website (where you’re reading this, as well as some hard copies that I will provide).

-You should be prepared to type all of your completed work and email it to me as one document (except for #2, your packet on segregation)

-With the development of media technology, especially the film industry, the ability to recreate history for the masses became a reality. However, with this ability, developed the possibility of taking liberties with the facts for entertainment purposes that appeal to the people: For example Forrest Gump is not a real person (sorry). Since the opening of “Mississippi Burning” in 1988, the film has had its share of critics. Broadly speaking, many feel that the film did a disservice to the facts surrounding the Freedom Summer of 1964. The film is quite graphic in its violence, and language (you’re welcome).

Finished products must include ALL of the following: I suggest you use Microsoft Word (12 point font, times new roman) or an application on your iPad such as Evernote. USE THE RESOURCES THAT I PROVIDE

  1. Cover Page: Include a picture that you feel represents your projects purpose
  2. Segregation Packet: you should have already finished (you’ll turn in the hard copy pages)
  3. Research of an Historical Period: The Civil Rights Movement: Chart Handout, you will need to type your finished work
  4. SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee or “Snick”) Statement of Purpose Questions: type the four questions and your answers
  5. Alone in a Crowd: type a 1-2 paragraph summary of what you see in the picture of Elizabeth Eckford
  6. Develop a summary of ALL of the following topics and how they relate to the film: This will be a typed summary that should be researched using the resources provided, your book, and your Constitution
  7. 13th Amendment
  8. 14th Amendment
  9. 15th Amendment
  10. Jim Crow Laws: including a discussion of what or who Jim Crow was
  11. The Civil Rights Movement
  12. The “Freedom Summer” of 1964
  1. Film Review Questions: Be sure to type your answers to each of the 8 questions

1-4 Film Facts

1-4 Essay Questions