WebQuest
Civil Rights: 100 Years in the Making
Process
STEP 1: terminology is important! Find the definitions for the following words. You can use an online dictionary or an old fashioned dictionary. Be sure to write a thorough definition.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/
- segregation
- integration
- discrimination
- racism
- suffrage
- boycott
- reform
- Jim Crow Laws
- protest
- civil rights
STEP 2: Research each of the following events and provide an answer to these five questions FOR EACH EVENT:
- What happened?
- Where and when did it happen?
- Key people involved?
- Why did it happen?
- Who was affected by the event?
Attachments
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Interview with Rosa Parks
Description: Academy of Achievement
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Greensboro Sit-in
Description: Four students from North Carolina A&T State University sit down at Woolworth's white-only lunch counter
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Bloody Sunday
Description: The march from Selma to Montgomery
Time to Write your report
Description: Now that you have read and heard the major events, it is time to write your report. Click on "Evaluation" to begin...
Description: Now that you have read and heard the major events, it is time to write your report. Click on "Evaluation" to begin...
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Brown v Board of Education of Topeka, KS.
Description: Supreme Court. Expanding Civil Rights. Landmark Cases.
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
Description: History.com VIDEO
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Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Description: account of the assassination
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Little Rock Nine
Description: History.com. Integration of Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas.
The last speech of Martin Luther King Jr.
Description: a rousing and emotional portion of King's last speech, which now appears to foreshadow his death
Description: a rousing and emotional portion of King's last speech, which now appears to foreshadow his death
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EXTRA: a closer look at one of the Little Rock Nine
Description: The moment is captured in one of the iconic photos of the Civil Rights Movement. This SUPPLEMENTAL article examines the lives of Elizabeth Eckford and Hazel Bryan after the Little Rock Nine.
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Freedom Riders
Description: history.com
I Have a Dream speech
Description: a portion of the full speech
Description: a portion of the full speech
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