Civil Rights Homework Due Friday, May 6th

Directions: Complete 2 out of the 4 questions. For extra credit complete a 3rd question of your choice. Must be done well!!!

1.Create a diary entry for an African American living in the Old Civil Rights movement. Chose from one of these events to write about: Birmingham Protest, Selma March, March on Washington, Montgomery Bus Boycott, Emmett Till Murder, Sit Ins. The diary should be at least 15 sentences long and include specifics from one of these events.
2.Write your own newspaper article about the New Civil Rights Movement. It should be at least 20 sentences long and cover at least one of the topics of The Black Panther Party, Malcolm X, Black Power, Muhammad Ali, Martin Luther King Jr.’s death, Busing Riots. Be Creative!!!!!!!
3.Create your own cover for an issue of Ms Magazine. Include headlines that deal with both present day issues for women and past issues for women. Be Creative! It should be drawn on a piece of 8x10 paper.
4.Look in the newspaper, or online news sources for an issue dealing with minority civil rights today. Print or cut out the article and write a 10 sentence paragraph discussing the article and relating it to what we discussed about the minority civil rights movement in class.