Students may research any of the following topics during the third quarter Civil Rights research project in Mr. Randy Turner's eighth grade communication arts class at East Middle School:
-Freedom Riders
-Montgomery Bus Boycott
-Little Rock Nine
-Jackie Robinson's First Year in the Major Leagues
-Mississippi Murders/Freedom Summer
-Murder of Emmett Till
-Birmingham Church Bombing
-Assassination of Martin Luther King
-Assassination of Malcolm X
-Assassination of Medgar Evers
-Bloody Sunday/Selma March
-March on Washington/I Have a Dream
-Brown v. Board of Education
-Negro Leagues Baseball
-President Kennedy and the Civil Rights Movement
-President Johnson and the Civil Rights Movement
-Black Panther Party
Students may research another topic, but it must be related to the American Civil Rights Movement and must be approved by Mr. Turner.
-Freedom Riders
-Montgomery Bus Boycott
-Little Rock Nine
-Jackie Robinson's First Year in the Major Leagues
-Mississippi Murders/Freedom Summer
-Murder of Emmett Till
-Birmingham Church Bombing
-Assassination of Martin Luther King
-Assassination of Malcolm X
-Assassination of Medgar Evers
-Bloody Sunday/Selma March
-March on Washington/I Have a Dream
-Brown v. Board of Education
-Negro Leagues Baseball
-President Kennedy and the Civil Rights Movement
-President Johnson and the Civil Rights Movement
-Black Panther Party
Students may research another topic, but it must be related to the American Civil Rights Movement and must be approved by Mr. Turner.
