EXAMPLE FOR THE SPRING BREAK PROJECT

Hello darling students!

Hope you are enjoying your spring break, and are doing something grand and exciting (besides your project).

AT THIS POINT: You should be finished with your research and have a rough draft of what you want on your poster.

Here is a finished example of what Miss Blake and I expect CONTENT-WISE come Monday.  Our example is super boring, because I (Ms. A) have yet to figure out to format fanciness on this blog.  We did our example on Viola Liuzzo.    (Don't worry none of you chose her, so we are not helping anyone out)

                         Viola Liuzzo

Born on April 11, 1925 in California, Pennsylvania, Viola Gregg was born to a World War I veteran and a part-time teacher.  Her father was injured when working at the coal-mines, and her family was forced to depend on her mother's inconsistent income.  Soon her family had to move to Tennessee, and she was able to experience first-hand the segregated life in the South.  Her family lived in extreme poverty and lived in similar conditions that African American citizens would live under, yet still experienced more privileges due to the Jim Crow laws.  After dropping out of high school, and going through her first of three marriages, her family moved to Detroit for job opportunities to help with the war effort.  Her years here turned her into the Civil Rights activist we know today (Stanton, 1998).

            She returned back to school, and worked with the NAACP and SCLC to help with their movements.  After witnessing news broadcasts on "Bloody Sunday" Liuzzo traveled to Selma to help Martin Luther King and the other marchers with their cause.  She worked with SCLC's transportation units, and was seen in a car with Leroy Morton, a 19-year-old African American activist, by KKK members.  The initial goal of the Klansmen were to get an opportunity to kill MLK, but decided that they needed to make an example out of Liuzzo. They quickly engaged Liuzzo in a high-speed chase, and about 20 miles outside of Selma shot and killed Liuzzo.  Morton escaped with his life by pretending to be dead.  Scandal quickly surrounded her death because an undercover FBI agent was thought be linked with her death, and even caused President Johnson to start investigating the KKK and petitioned to quickly move the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to ensure no more innocent lives were lost.  Liuzzo is the only white woman to be killed during the Civil Rights Movement (Stanton, 1998).

Source:

Stanton, Mary. From Selma To Sorrow: The Life and Death of Viola Liuzzo. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1998.

SEE?! Not that bad!  You all got this!  See you Monday!