Create one diary entry of 350- to 700-words from the perspective of one of the following 1960s personas:
-Student at the University of Mississippi when James Meredith tried to enroll
-Witness to the assassination of Malcolm X
-Protestor at the Lincoln Memorial who hears King give his
"I Have a Dream" speech
-A freedom rider on a bus headed to New Orleans in 1961
-Store owner and witness to the Watts riots in LA
-African American participant in one of the Selma marches in 1965
-An African American supporter and political organizer for Robert Kennedy in 1968
Create a second diary entry of 350-to 700-words from the perspective of one of the following 1960s personas:
-An nurse serving in Vietnam
-A draft dodger who goes to Canada during Vietnam
-A witness to the Kent State protests and subsequent shootings (1970)
-An American soldier fighting during the Tet Offensive
-An American bomber who bombed Cambodia or Laos
-An Vietnamese citizen supportive of the Americans during the Fall of Saigon
-American soldier leaving Vietnam during the Fall of Saigon