Download Civil Rights Culminating Task: Illustrated Scrapbook

Civil Rights: Illustrated Scrapbook
Directions
Students will assume the identity of a person living through the Civil Rights Movement (1952-1968) and
create a family scrapbook that would be passed down to following generations. This project must include a
letter to your son or daughter explaining the importance of the Civil Rights Movement and why you have
created this scrapbook (One typed page – 3 paragraphs). Also, this scrapbook must include all events listed
below, which chronicle your experience through the movement, supported by two primary sources per
event. Each event must be written as an eyewitness description. Event descriptions must be two full
paragraphs. DUE DATE: Friday, April 21, 2017
Each event must include at least two of the following primary sources, or one that is pre-approved by the
teacher:
- Photos and a caption explaining the picture
- Headlines or articles from a newspaper or magazine
- Tickets to a speaking engagement
- Speeches, poems, songs
- Election results, campaign posters, debates, speeches
- Supreme Court Rulings
- Quotes from historic figures or eyewitnesses
- Letters of correspondence
- Propaganda posters, drawing, government issued ordinances
List of Events (One per page)
1. Formation of CORE
2. School Integration (Brown v. Board, Little Rock Nine)
3. Bus Boycott
4. Lunch Counter Sit-ins
5. Freedom Rides
6. Birmingham (MLK Letter from Birmingham Jail, Church Bombings)
7. 1963 March on Washington and “I Have A Dream” Speech
8. Civil Rights Act of 1964
9. Voting Rights Act of 1965 (Voter Education Project)
10. Malcolm X, Black Panthers, Black Power
11. Watts Riots
12. Civil Rights Act of 1968
Mandatory Requirements Checklist
 A cover page that is decorated and in color
 A letter to future generation
 All 12 events are included in chronological order
 One event per page
 Details are written about your experience
 Two different historically accurate per event
 All pictures have a caption