Before You Read…

1. Before You Read… Some Helpful Hints

2. Creating a Time Line • Make an illustrated time line of the Civil Rights Movement, using pictures of the times to illustrate the events. • Explain the events and discuss why you selected the photos/clipart you did.

3. Name That Tune • Explore the music that was popular in 1963, especially in the African American community. • Research two of the artists popular in 1963.

4. What Should I Wear? • What fashions were popular in 1963? Create a Poster! http://www.sixtiescity.com/Fashion/Fashion.htm

5. Having a Bad Hair Day???? People in 1963 “conked” their hair. • What was “conked hair,” and how was it conked?

6. Celebrate a Hero • Research the influence of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on the Civil Rights Movement. Create a poster board of his famous “I Have a Dream Speech” and annotate it for display.

7. Meet Rosa Parks • Rosa Parks is often called the “Mother of the Civil Rights Movement.” Read her biography and then prepare a list of ten questions you might like to ask her.

8. The Jim Crow Laws • www.nps.gov/malu/documents/jim_crow_laws.htm • http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/ • http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/ Make a collage that shows how the life of an African American in the late 1950s or early 1960s would have differed from that of a white person in the south. Use these web sites to research the “Jim Crow” laws. In your collage show places where African Americans would have been treated differently or places where their lives were “separate but equal.”