THE FREEDOM “T”
COMMEMORATING
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
To help commemorate famous nonviolent protests conducted by civil rights
demonstrators, you will be creating an actual T-shirt that will depict one of the major
events of the non-violent protest movements of the 50’s and 60’s.
*Phase I of T-Shirt:
A. The design on the front of the shirt will depict a non-violent event (symbols or
drawings must be tastefully appropriate and non-offensive). Must be colored.
B. On the back, you will create an appropriate slogan for the event (if the slogan is not
original, you must write on the shirt the person’s name or who said it). Must be colored.
(See due dates below of Phase I & II of T-Shirt design)
The rough draft will be approved before moving to the next phase of this project.
**Phase II of Shirt: Students will bring T-shirts completed to class to be approved before
wearing on Feb 14th A Day and Feb 18th B Day
***Phase III of Shirt: Students wearing the T-shirts will bring the US History Civil
Rights Project-Extra Credit to each class period on Friday February 28th B Day and have
their teachers sign the form, indicating that it was worn. Teachers can comment if any
incidents occurred as a result of wearing the shirts in class.
*Phase I Assign T-Shirts: Friday February 14th A Day/ Tuesday Feb 18th B Day
Students will be given instructions and due dates on T-shirt designs.
*Phase I Due Dates of Art Approval (This is for a grade): see above
**Phase II T-Shirt w/ Designs to Class (For a Test grade): Wed Feb 26th B Day /27th A Day
***Phase III of T-Shirt: Wear Civil Rights T-Shirt for Extra Credit February 28th B Day
ALL STUDENTS. You will have a handout to have teachers sign showing proof that you wore
it.
THIS ASSIGNMENT IS NOT EXTRA CREDIT. IT IS A TEST GRADE. THE ONLY
THING THAT MAKES PART OF THE ASSIGNMENT EXTRA CREDIT, IS WEARING IT
TO SCHOOL. THIS HAS ALWAYS BEEN A FUN DAY FOR EVERYONE WHO DOES IT.
Montgomery Bus
Boycott
Rosa Parks
Malcom X
Martin Luther King Jr
American Indian
Movement
Russell Means
Maggie Kuhn
Betty Friedan
La Raza Unida
LULAC
Cesar Chavez
The Student NonViolent Coordinating
Committee (SNCC)
Jesse Jackson
Bayard Rustin
Civil Rights Act of
1964
24th Amendment
Bobby Seale
Chicano Movement
Poor People’s
Campaign
JFK
SCLC
American With
Disabilities Act
Education for All
Handicapped Children
Act
No Child Left Behind
Gray Panthers
American Association
of Retired Persons
(AARP)
Brown vs Board of
Education Topeka, KS
Medgar Evers
Bloody Sunday
Phyllis Schlafly
I Have a Dream
Speech
James Farmer
Equal Rights
Amendment
Letters from
Birmingham
Congress Of Racial
Equality
UFW (United Farm
Workers)
Black Panther Party
Dolores Huerta
Professor Ronald
Takaki Founder of
College of Ethnic
Studies
Stokley Carmichael
Brown Berets
Huey P Newton
Rodolfo “Corky”
Gonzales
Delano Grape Boycott
Gloria Steinem
Freedom Riders
Horace Julian Bond
Crusade for Justice
Alcatraz Occupation
Wounded Knee 1968
Immigration and
Nationality Act
Loving vs Virginia