Civil Rights Timeline Project
Step 1 (Day 1)
You will be in a group of 4 students.
Your group chooses one time period:
1930s
1940s
1950s
1960s
Step 2 (Day 1)
Each student in your group chooses one significant Civil Rights event from your decade (10-year time period). You are responsible for one event from that decade.
Make sure you all choose events from the same decade -- for example, from the 1950s.
However, every student will choose a DIFFERENT event to research!
Here are suggestions. If you would like to pick a different event, please check with Ms. Doyle first.
1930s
Scottsboro Boys arrested
Tuskegee syphilis experiment begins
Jesse Owens wins four gold medals in the Olympics
Murray v. Pearson decided
Zora Neale Hurston writes "Their Eyes Were Watching God"
Southern Negro Youth Congress founded
Billie Holiday performs "Strange Fruit" in New York City
1940s
In Chambers v. Florida, the Supreme Court frees three Black men who were coerced into confessing to a murder.
Richard Wright writes "Native Son"
United Negro College Fund is incorporated
Jackie Robinson becomes the first black baseball player in professional baseball in 60 years.
Dr. Charles R. Drew becomes the first African-American surgeon to serve on the American Board of Surgery
President Harry S. Truman issues Executive Order Executive Order 9981 ordering the end of segregation in the military
1950s
Brown vs. Board of Education
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on the bus
Chuck Berry begins to record his music
"Raisin in the Sun" produced on Broadway
Alvin Ailey founds a theater
Sit-in at the Woolworth's Counter in Greensborough
1960s
The Freedom Rides begin
Malcolm X becomes political minister of Nation of Islam
March on Washington for largest Civil Rights demonstration ever
Bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham
President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act
Martin Luther King, Jr. wins Nobel Peace Prize
Step 3 (Day 1)
Each student researches his or her event. You will need to share computers, so we will switch halfway through. Every student will get half the class period to use the computer. You may also use books and encyclopedias.
Use the Event Map handout or lined paper for your notes.
Step 4 (Day 1 or 2)
Print or draw a picture related to your event.
Step 5 (Day 2)
Write a 9-sentence paragraph about your event, using your notes. Use the template on your handout.
If you have time, type and print your paragraph (change the font size to 20 point).
Step 6 (Day 2)
Make your timeline on butcher paper with your group of 4. You should have 4 events, each with a paragraph and a picture.
-- Title
-- Timeline with dates (1930, 1931, 1932. . . all the way to 1940, for example).
-- 4 paragraphs with lines drawn to the correct date
-- 4 pictures connected to the events
-- Names of the 4 people in the group (upper right corner)
You will be in a group of 4 students.
Your group chooses one time period:
1930s
1940s
1950s
1960s
Step 2 (Day 1)
Each student in your group chooses one significant Civil Rights event from your decade (10-year time period). You are responsible for one event from that decade.
Make sure you all choose events from the same decade -- for example, from the 1950s.
However, every student will choose a DIFFERENT event to research!
Here are suggestions. If you would like to pick a different event, please check with Ms. Doyle first.
1930s
Scottsboro Boys arrested
Tuskegee syphilis experiment begins
Jesse Owens wins four gold medals in the Olympics
Murray v. Pearson decided
Zora Neale Hurston writes "Their Eyes Were Watching God"
Southern Negro Youth Congress founded
Billie Holiday performs "Strange Fruit" in New York City
1940s
In Chambers v. Florida, the Supreme Court frees three Black men who were coerced into confessing to a murder.
Richard Wright writes "Native Son"
United Negro College Fund is incorporated
Jackie Robinson becomes the first black baseball player in professional baseball in 60 years.
Dr. Charles R. Drew becomes the first African-American surgeon to serve on the American Board of Surgery
President Harry S. Truman issues Executive Order Executive Order 9981 ordering the end of segregation in the military
1950s
Brown vs. Board of Education
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on the bus
Chuck Berry begins to record his music
"Raisin in the Sun" produced on Broadway
Alvin Ailey founds a theater
Sit-in at the Woolworth's Counter in Greensborough
1960s
The Freedom Rides begin
Malcolm X becomes political minister of Nation of Islam
March on Washington for largest Civil Rights demonstration ever
Bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham
President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act
Martin Luther King, Jr. wins Nobel Peace Prize
Step 3 (Day 1)
Each student researches his or her event. You will need to share computers, so we will switch halfway through. Every student will get half the class period to use the computer. You may also use books and encyclopedias.
Use the Event Map handout or lined paper for your notes.
Step 4 (Day 1 or 2)
Print or draw a picture related to your event.
Step 5 (Day 2)
Write a 9-sentence paragraph about your event, using your notes. Use the template on your handout.
If you have time, type and print your paragraph (change the font size to 20 point).
Step 6 (Day 2)
Make your timeline on butcher paper with your group of 4. You should have 4 events, each with a paragraph and a picture.
-- Title
-- Timeline with dates (1930, 1931, 1932. . . all the way to 1940, for example).
-- 4 paragraphs with lines drawn to the correct date
-- 4 pictures connected to the events
-- Names of the 4 people in the group (upper right corner)
eventmap.pdf |
template.doc |