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Civil Rights Web-Quest

STEP 1: Define the following terms in your own words

  1. Racism:
  1. Segregate:
  1. Poll Tax
  1. Literacy Tests:
  1. Black Muslims:
  1. Black Panther Party:
  1. Elijah Muhammad:
  1. Bobby Seale:

STEP 2: Find 5 historic photos of mistreatment of African Americans during the Civil Rights Movement. Describe how the photos make you feel, tell the events that are taking place and why it is significant during the civil rights.

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STEP 3: Timeline for Civil Rights movement.

Date / Activity / Significance/Importance
1954 / Oliver Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
1955 / Montgomery Bus Boycott
1957 / Desegregation at Little Rock, Arkansas
1960 / Sit-in Campaigns
1961 / Freedom Rides
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University of Mississippi Riot

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Birmingham

1963 / March on Washington
1965 / Bloody Sunday

STEP 4: Songs

Choose one of civil rights songs and tell what it means. Explain the lyrics. Why was it an important song to the movement?

STEP 5: Leaders of the Civil Rights Movement: Choose 4 leaders and explain what they did, & how they led.

1 / 2 / 3 / 4
What did he/she do?
How did they lead in the movement

STEP 6: Civil Rights TIMELINE

--Create a timeline with the following events. You will put the following events in chronological order on attached timeline sheet. Then, find out who was President at that time and put that information on attached timeline sheet.

--You will transfer information from timeline sheet to ¼ of a poster board or construction paper in a timeline form with event, president, date, & illustrations. You must have color on your timeline and at least 3 illustrations. It must be very neat as well.

  • SCLC is formed
  • Sit-ins in North Carolina
  • Voting Rights Act
  • JFK forces George Wallace to desegregate university of Alabama
  • Kerner Commission is formed
  • Brown v. Board of Education
  • SNCC is formed
  • Freedom Summer
  • James Meredith tries to register at Ole Miss
  • Black Panther Party is founded
  • Beginning of Montgomery bus boycott
  • 1st sit-in by CORE in Chicago
  • “I have a dream” speech by MLK
  • violence in Watts
  • school desegregation crisis in Little Rock, Arkansas
  • Medgar Evers is assassinated
  • Malcolm X is assassinated
  • Beginning of freedom rides
  • Civil Rights Act (1st one)
  • Malcolm X breaks with Elijah Muhammad
  • MLK is assassinated
  • Civil Rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama begins

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