For this assignment, you will examine African-Americans, women, or Native Americans and their struggle for equality. You will create a technology presentation that highlights some of the key events for one of the three groups. You can use Microsoft Powerpoint, Prezi, or Animoto to create your presentation. You will include 8-10 photographs of the events, people, or the movements that have shaped each group's history.
You can choose to research any person or event that you feel is important in the history of your group. You do not need to use any of the examples listed below. This is simply meant to help get you started in your search for the noteworthy events in your group's history.
I. African-Americans
1. The National Association for the Advancement for Colored People (NAACP)
2. The Great Migration
3. Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers
4. Brown vs. Board of Education
5. Montgomery Bus Boycott
6. Emmett Till
7. The Little Rock Nine in Little Rock, Arkansas
8. Civil Rights March on Washington
9. Bloody Sunday
10. Election of Barack Obama
Women
1. World Anti-Slavery Convention in London - Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
2. Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, NY
3. Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and the National Woman Suffrage Association
4. Alice Paul, Lucy Burns, and the National Women's Party
5. Betty Friedan and The Feminine Mystique
6. The Equal Rights Amendment - 1972
7. Title IX - 1972
8. The Glass Ceiling
9. Roe vs. Wade
10. Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act
Native Americans
1. Squanto
2. Sacajawea and the Louisiana Purchase
3. Indian Removal Act - 1830
4. Trail of Tears
5. Battle of Little Big Horn
6. Dawes Act
7. Oklahoma Land Race
8. Battle of Wounded Knee
9. Jim Thorpe
10. American Indian Movement (AIM).