Questions and Topics We Can Help You To Answer:
Paper Instructions:
Required Sources:

    Multimedia: Civil Rights virtual field trip
        Lyrics of the freedom songs
        Mavis staples lyrics – Eyes on the prize
    Video: A class apart [Video] From the Films on Demand database.
    Video: The way we never were: American families and the nostalgia trap
    Scholarly Source: The Chicano movement: Paths to power.

Recommended Sources:

    Time line: Civil rights timeline.
    Video: Save our history: Voices of civil rights [Video] from the  Films on Demand database.
    Scholarly Source: May, E. (2008). Fanning the home fires. Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era [electronic resource] NY : Basic Bks. Retrieved from Ashford University Library Ebook Collection.

Instructions: Based on your textbook and the required videos and reading, analyze the development and success of the Civil Rights Movement using the following questions as the basis of your analysis:

    What precisely did the African American Civil Right Movement gain?
    What objectives did it fail to achieve?
    What are some similarities and differences between the African American Civil Rights movement and one other social movement pushing for equality discussed in your textbook during this period?