Spring Break Project!

Hello students!

So for those of you who want to get started, here are the instructions for the Spring Break project.  We will give out a hard copy for those of us who need it, and the instructions should also be on SchoolLoop.

Civil Rights Spring Break Assignment

You and a partner will choose a person from the list below and make a poster on that person. The poster will include the facts about who, what, when, where, and why. The why part will include the person's significance and be written in one to two paragraphs. In this poster, explain the person's role in Civil Rights the person's  effect on the Civil Rights movement. You must include a visual/picture in the poster. (Please cite your sources).

African American Rights            Bernice Fisher                        James Farmer                        Shirley Chisholm             Medgar Evers    Thurgood Marshall                         Stokely Carmichael             John Lewis                         Ella Baker                         Viola Liuzzo            

Fannie Lou Hamer                         Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale

Native American Rights            Vernon Bellecourt            Reuben Snake                        Leonard Peltier           

Lehman Brightman             Winona LaDuke

Hispanic Rights            Dolores Huerta            Hector P. Garcia             Linda Chavez-Thompson      Sylvia Mendez

Bert Corona                        Ruben Salazar

Asian Americans Rights Yuri Kochiyama            Harry Wu                        Dalip Singh Saund            Philip Vera Cruz Norman Mineta

Women's Rights            Betty Friedan                        Geraldine Ferraro            Eunice Kennedy Shriver     Angela Davis

Gloria Steinem            Sandra Day O'Connor                       

Gay Rights                        Harvey Milk                         Elaine Noble                         Barbara Gittings            Harry Hay

Del Martin& Phyllis Lyon