Ordinary People, Ordinary Places: The Civil Rights Movement

You will be divided into four groups. Your teacher will assign you a group number

Follow the directions listed under your group number

Please use the websites below for research purposes.

All groups can use the following two website:

http://www.voicesofcivilrights.org/voices.html

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/civilrightstimeline1.html

Group 1: Little Rock Nine, 1957

Discuss the group of nine black student who were enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. The ensuing Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus and then attended after the intervention of President Eisenhower.

http://www.nps.gov/history/NR/travel/civilrights/ak1.htm

http://americanhistory.si.edu/brown/index.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSdLPNQSa4k

Group 2: Freedom Summer: Mississippi 1964

Create a skit that shows the problems African Americans faced when trying to register to vote, such as physical threats, economic punishment, and biased literacy tests.  African American residents — and the activists themselves — had good reason to fear violence at the hands of racist whites if they asserted their rights. Also use the video podcast at the beginning of the WebQuest as another source.

http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/civilrights-55-65/missippi.html

Group 3: Montgomery Bus Boycott

Create a skit that outlines the main events that occurred to Rosa Parks on December 1, 1955. She was arrested for refusing to compy with the law that required her to give up her seat to a white man. That event led to the city-wide boycott.

http://www.montgomeryboycott.com/frontpage.htm

http://www.africanaonline.com/montgomery.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15p5HB-FpjI&feature=related

Group 4: March on Washington

Create a skit that outlines the main reasoning for the March on Washington. Please use some portion of Martin Luther King, Jr. "I Have a Dream" Speech. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbUtL_0vAJk

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eyesontheprize/milestones/m05_march.html