US History Spring Final Growth Portfolio

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Montgomery Bus Boycott, Alabama — 1955–1956

• 📚  Library books on the book cart

• 📺  A Time for Justice film clip

Lunch Counters — 1960

• 📚  Library books on the book cart

• 📺  A Time for Justice film clip

• 📖  Article from Up Front Magazine

Freedom Riders, Mississippi — 1961

• 📚  Library books on the book cart

• 📺  A Time for Justice film clip

• 📖  Article from Up Front Magazine

 Albany Movement, Georgia — 1962

• 📚  Library books on the book cart

• 📺  Online historical videos   👉 Task #14

• 📄  Online historical texts   👉 Task #14

Birmingham Children's Crusade, Alabama — 1963

• 📚  Library books on the book cart

• 📺  A Time for Justice film clip

• 📖  Article from Up Front Magazine

• 📺  Online historical videos   👉 Task #14

• 📄  Online historical texts   👉 Task #14

Freedom Summer, Mississippi — 1964

• 📚  Library books on the book cart

• 📺  A Time for Justice film clip

Selma "Bloody Sunday", Alabama — 1965

• 📚  Library books on the book cart

• 📺  A Time for Justice film clip

• 📺  Selma film trailer

• 📖  Article from Up Front Magazine

• 📺  📄  Online historical videos & texts   👉 Selma Documents

Part 1 — READ & ANNOTATE 2+ ARTICLES ABOUT THE FILM SELMA

🟢 Pick ONE from this list:

• 1. What ‘Selma’ gets wrong

• 2. The movie ‘Selma’ has a glaring flaw

• 3. How Accurate is ‘Selma’?

🟢 And pick ONE from this list:

• • A. Is ‘Selma’ historically accurate?

  • B. It’s critics of ‘Selma’ who are distorting Civil Rights history

  • C. What matters in Selma

  • D. Selma Did Distort History

🟦 Upgrade Opportunities:

• Walk with Me (interview with director Ava Duverney)

• Selma is Stronger than MAGA

• Ethics on Film: Discussion of "Selma"

• Based on a True Story? (scene-by-scene analysis of the film; scroll down to find Selma)

PART 2 — ANALYZE HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS ABOUT THE SELMA CAMPAIGN OF 1965

🟢 / 🟦  Primary Sources about Selma, 1965:

• Selma Historical Documents

⬥ Upgrade Opportunities:

• Civil Rights Resources: Selma Voting Rights Campaign & March to Montgomery