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The Smithsonian Institution is planning an online instructional unit on Leaders, Laws and events of the
American Civil Rights Movement 1865-1965. You have been asked to prepare a slideshow on one topic.
Each group of 2 or 3 students will select one leader, law or event and discuss its significance to the
movement. The presentation should include 5 slides accompanied by at least 4 points of information.
.Be sure to document your sources.

Choose from one of the following topics:

Ku Klux Klan
Brown v. the Board of Education March on Washington
Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Act of 1964
Emmett Till President Lyndon Johnson
Rosa Parks Stokley Carmichael
Little Rock Nine Swann V. Charlotte-Mecklinburg Board of Education
Orval Faubus Civil Rights Acts 1968
James Meredith Montgomery Bus Boycott
Freedom Riders Jim Crow Laws
Medgar Evers NAACP
Malcolm X
W.E.B. Dubois

Seneca Falls Convention 1848 Indian Reorganization Act of 1934

Suffragettes/Susan B. Anthony American Indian Movement
Chief Joseph/Nez Perce