Students will pick one topic from the list below and write a 1000 word essay using the sources to explain the historical topic. Your paper will need a thesis statement, an historical argument, evidence from the readings with appropriate citations, and a

1000 Words
Double Space paper
Have a clear thesis
Have evidence to support your thesis
Do not use direct quotes.  Paraphrase the reading.
Proof read
Organize your paper
Us in-text citations for all information taken from the reading.  Per the rubric, papers without citations will receive an automatic F. 
Do not use outside sources.  I want you to react and analyze the assigned sources.  Not google things.  The American YAWP and the sources contain all the information you need to analyze these sources.

Topics:

Civil Rights Movement

Secondary Sources:

Civil Rights Activism in 1960s Virginia by Simon Hall.pdfPreview the document
Ruth Feldstein-I Don’t Trust you Anymore-Nina Simone, Culture and Black Activism in the 1960s.pdfPreview the document
Primary Sources

Lyndon Johnson on Voting Rights and the American Promise (1965) (Links to an external site.)
Famous Malcolm X speech “Any means necessary” (Links to an external site.)

Nina Simone: Mississippi Goddam (Links to an external site.)

1966) STOKELY CARMICHAEL, BLACK POWER (Links to an external site.)
Martin Luther King – I Have A Dream Speech – August 28, 1963 (Links to an external site.)

1960s

Secondary Sources:

Tear down the Walls-Jefferson Airplane, Race, and Revolutionary Rhetoric in 1960s Rock by Patrick Burke.pdfPreview the document
The Conservative 1960s by James Jijiya.pdfPreview the document
Primary Sources:

LBJ’s University of Michigan speech, 5-22-64. (Links to an external site.)

Vietnam Veterans Against the War Statement by John Kerry to the Senate Committee of Foreign Relations (Links to an external site.)
Port Huron Statement