The Civil Rights Movement

Textbook: Chapter 28, 29, 30
Lesson
Minimum of 1 primary source
Minimum of 4 scholarly sources (in addition to the textbook)
Address the corresponding questions/prompts for your selected topic. Use at least one (1)
documented example of the corresponding primary source in your writing.
Using the Internet, locate and read Martin Luther King Jr’s “I Have a Dream” speech given in
Washington D.C., August 1963. Copy and paste the following keywords into your Google search
bar: “I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr.” Feel free also to locate and incorporate
additional scholarly sources to respond to this case study, including information on the Civil
Rights Movement.
Construct the case study by responding to the following prompts:
Explain if the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s effectively changed the nation.
What effect would the Civil Rights Acts have across the continent on minority groups?
Do you think that the tactics and strategies that civil rights activists used in the 1960s would
apply to today’s racial and ethnic conflicts? Why or why not?
Do the ideas of the 1960s still have relevance today? If so how? If not, why not?
Analyze how the Civil Rights Movement would impact diversity in America today.