Civil Rights Picture Book Assignment
Plessy vs. Ferguson 1896
22. Jo Ann Robinson
2. Muhammad Ali
23. Malcolm X
3. Jesse Owens
24. Mahatma Gandhi
4. Autherine Lucy
25. Jackie Robinson
5. NAACP
26. Thurgood Marshall
6. W.E. B. Dubois
27. SCLC
7. Frederick Douglass
28. Booker T. Washington
8. Marcus Garvey
29. Birmingham Church Bombing
9. John Brown
30. Roy Wilkins
10. Billie Holiday
31. Medgar Evers
11. Rosa Parks
32. Mississippi Burning Case
12. Barack Obama
33. Sit-Ins Greensboro NC
13. Ernie Davis
34. Claudette Colvin
14. James Meredith
35. Martin Luther King
15. Jim Brown
36. Emmett Till Case
16. Jimmy Lee Jackson
37. Freedom Rides
17. Crisis @ Little Rock
38. Diane Nash
18. Brown vs. Board of Ed.
39. 761st tank battalion
19. Cesar Chavez
40. A. Philip Randolph
20. USS Mason
41. Tuskegee Airmen
21. Selma March/Voting Rights
Act 1965
42. Fred Shuttlesworth
Research the Topic:
Research and take notes on your topic. Do not cut and paste information, do not plagiarize
information.
Cover who, what, when, where, and why.
Analyze the effects this person or event had on other individuals, groups, society, and or
governments and nations.
Focuses mainly but not exclusively on their role in helping African Americans achieve civil rights.
Be prepared to take a quiz on your topic. You will need to become an expert on this person,
place, or event.
The quiz will be worth 10 points.
Create a Picture Book or Slide Essay:
Draw a picture book that contains illustrations of the story covered in your research.
Samples from previous years will be passed around for you to analyze.
The work should include a cover page, and about 20 more drawings that convey the history and
significance of your topic.
Use the pictures to complement your story; do not write the story around the pictures.
NO STICK FIGURES SHOULD BE USED. CLIP ART SHOULD NOT BE USED!
If you are not quite as artistic and would prefer an alternative assignment you may choose to
create a slide essay with your topic rather than draw a picture book. This assignment requires
you to include 20 photos, pictures, or drawings to accompany your summary of the topic. They
should complement your story.
You must include a work cited page with at least 5 sources!
Cover Page
5 points
Neatness
5 points
Punctuation, spelling, and grammar
5 points
Collection of Pictures
10 points
Coverage of the topic & translation in your own
20 points
words
Work Cited Page
5 points
Total Point Value: 50 due upon completion of the unit on Civil Rights. (TBA)