Unit project - Civil Rights / Native Son

Here is a link to Richard Wright's "How Bigger Was Born," for those of you who want to read the author's perspective on this book and the main character.

Today we started the project that will end our unit on Civil Rights and Native Son.
Here is a link to the assignment handout.

For tonight, your task is to collect 6 quotations from the unit. You will write these out on note cards.
Here are the different sources we used:

• Plessy vs. Ferguson
• Jim Crow web activity
• Booker T Washington
• W.E.B. DuBois
• "Without Sanctuary"
• Harlem Renaissance
• Zora Neale Hurston
• Langston Hughes (essay and poetry)
• Brown vs. Board of Education
• Emmett Till (In the Time of Our Singing)
• Little Rock 9
• Nashville sit-ins
• SNCC articlee
• Birmingham
• MLK
• "Letter from Birmingham Jail"
• "I Have a Dream"
• John Lewish speeches
• Selma
• Song lyrics (played in class)
• Malcolm X
• Native Son