US History through the African American Experience

• 4 secondary sources
• 4 primary sources (from the time period)
• 2 reference sources
• 1 textbook

TIMELINE

4/13 choose a topic and write a paragraph explaining why this topic is of interest to you. 10

4/15 Find 8 sources on your topic.  At least one must be a book.  Put them in noodle bib. 24 points

4/30 – Write 500 words answering the following questions

1.  What is your question?

2.  What are the long term causes of your event?

3.  What is the spark of the event?

4.  What happened?

5.  What are the effects of the event?

6.  Include 4 footnotes from 3 different sources.

7.  List the 5 other sources you are going to use.

5/4 notecards on the spark 4 cards 8

5/5 notecards on the long term causes – 8 cards 16

5/7 notecards on the effect 8 cards 16

5/10 Formulate and answer to the question posed – To what extent did your event lead to equality and justice for African Americans? This is your thesis 10

5/11 Write a one-page outline of your paper 10

5/19 –Complete a rough draft of your paper with 5-10 pages including:

1 photo

Footnotes and bibliography with 8 sources including your textbook

Use of 3 quotes

Paragraphs that use the RACE format 20

5/17 to 5/26 conference with Dr. Wilson for 10 minutes about your paper.  Come prepared with 3 questions to ask. 20

6/1 Final draft due including 5-10 pages, photo, footnotes, bibliography and a copy of your primary documents. 400 points (worth 4 in class essays)
Possible topics:

1. March from Selma to Montgomery for voting rights 1965
2. Freedom Riders – integrate interstate buses – 1961
3. March on Washington 1963
4. Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and Fannie Lou Hamer 1964
5. Shirley Chisholm runs for President, 1972
6. Althea Gibson wins Wimbledon 1958
7. Jackie Robinson integrates baseball in 1947
8. Jackie Robinson fights for equal rights when he retires, 1957-1972
9. Larry Doby – the second baseball player to integrate the majors
10. Muhammad Ali avoids the draft
11. The Jackson 5 and Motown Records, 1971-1976
12. Harold Washington becomes first African American mayor of Chicago
13. Martin Luther King and the Poor People’s Campaign 1967-8
14. Martin Luther King opposes the war in Vietnam
15. Stokely Carmichael takes over SNCC and calls for Black Power
16. Angela Davis on trial for providing a gun for the murder of Judge Harold Haley, in attempt to free Soledad Brothers
17. Huey Newton founds the Black Panthers
18. Thurgood Marshall argues the Brown v. Board of Ed case
19. Autherine Lucy 1956 tries to integrate U of Alabama
20. James Meredith integrates U of Mississippi
21. 1958 Alvin Ailey Dance theater formed
22. Medgar Evers assassinated in 1963, head of Miss. NAACP
23. Septima Clark builds Ciizenship schools
24. 1951 Jet Magazine published for first time
25. Lorraine Hansberry – writes Raisin in the Sun
26. The Production of The Hate that Hate Produced  – Black Muslims
27. 1961 Goodman, Schwerner and Chaney killed while trying to register people in Mississippi to vote.
28. ***1960, 4 students in Greensboro begin a sit-in at Woolworth’s Drug Store to protest banning African Americans from sitting at counters.
29. Integrating the football Washington Redskins in 1961
30. Integration of the University of Alabama
31. ***1968 Memphis garbage worker strike
32. Ella Baker helps found SNCC
33. ***Malcolm X Message to the Grassroots 1963
34. Malcolm X’s jihad to Mecca
35. Sidney Poitier in Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
36. Church bombing in Birmingham, Sept 1963
37. ***Watts Riot 1965
38. Hartford Riot Sept 1969
39. Development of Project Concern, busing program from Hartford to suburbs, 1966
40. Muhammad Ali converts to Islam
41. ***Chaney, Schwerner, Goodman murdered in Mississippi
42. James Meredith shot in March Against Fear in Mississippi 1966
43. James Lawson practices non-violent direct action
44. ***Loving V. Virginia allows for interracial marriage
45. Police kill 2 black student protestors at Mississippi’s Jackson State College
46. ***Attica prison uprising 1971
47. ***Tommie Smith and John Carlos raise fists on Olympic Stand 1968
48. Roots television show 1977
49. ***1986 national holiday for Martin Luther King
50. Clarence Thomas becomes Supreme Court justice
51. Alice Walker and the Color Purple
52. The rise of hip hop
53. ***Sugar Hill Gang’s Rappers Delight hits billboard #36, 1979
54. Jesse Jackson runs for president in 1984
55. Louis Farrakhan’s Million Man March 1995
56. Affirmative Action
57. John Conyers fights for reparations
58. 1970 3 college students killed at Jackson State
59. The rise of the Afro hairstyle
60. Resurrection City in May 1968
61. ***Viola Liuzzo murdered by KKK 1965
62. Barbara Jordan first woman and African American to give keynote address at national convention of Democratic Party
63. Vanessa Williams became first African American selected as Miss America;
64. Oprah founds Harpo productons
65. 1951 On May 24, a mob of 3,500 whites attempt to prevent a black family from moving into a Cicero, Illinois apartment. Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson calls out the Illinois National Guard to protect the family and restore order.
66. 1955 Chuck Berry, an early breakthrough rock and roll artist, records “Maybellene”
67. 1959—On January 12, Berry Gordy, Jr. founds Motown Records in Detroit.
68. ***1968—On February 8, 3 students at South Carolina State 3 killed by police in what will be known as the Orangeburg Massacre.
69. 1974—On April 8, Henry “Hank” Aaron hits his 715th home run to become the all-time leader in home runs in major league baseball.
70. 1980 – Robert L. Johnson begins (BET) out of Washington, D.C.
71. 1986 Spike Lee releases his first feature film, She’s Gotta Have It,
72. Rodney King, Police Brutality and riots in 1991