Process

Before You Begin:

1.  Talk with your partner about the person or event that you will be researching.  Decide who will record the research today and who will keep up with it until tomorrow.

2) Next you will need to familiarize yourself with historical timelines so that you will be able to place your person or event.

Timelines

African Americans' Quest For Freedom

Timeline of selected events in the Civil Rights Movement

African American History Timeline

Getting Started

Listed below are the names of the people and events that you will be researching.  Click on the name and a website will pop-up.

Thurgood Marshall 

Rosa Parks

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Medgar Evers

Jesse Jackson

Brown vs. Board of Education

Montgomery Bus Boycotts

Freedom Rides

Oprah

Maya Angelou

Jackie Robinson

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Benjamin Banneker

Greensboro Sit-ins

George Washington Carver

Other Helpful Resources To Explore:

International Civil Rights Center and Museum

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

We Shall Overcome

Google.com

Wikipedia

Biographies of selected activists and reformers

People Spot Biographies of Civil Right's Activists 

Biographies of Famous African Americans