CIVIL+RIGHTS+RESEARCH


 * 1. Choose one of these topics.**

Rodney King

Emmet Till

Bob Dylan – ‘The Hurricane’

Rosa Parks

Little Rock Nine

Freedom riders

James Meredith

Letter from Birmingham Jail

Medgar Evers

Sixteenth Street Baptist Church

Jim Crow Laws

James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner

Bloody Sunday, Montgomery

Rodney King

Edgar Ray Killen

Trayvon Martin

Hong Kong Domestic helpers’ Residency Rights


 * 2. Find out about the topic. This is a test of your RESEARCH skills. Wikipedia is fine for a start but use the links at the bottom of each page to go further.**

Some suggestions:

Civil rights timeline Key people and terms [|Timeline for kids]


 * 3. Be prepared to feed back verbally to the class. You'll be expected to tell us:**


 * When did this thing happen?**
 * Where did it happen?**
 * What happened?**
 * Why is it considered important?**

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