PROCESS

This WebQuest is for NSW Preliminary Year (Year 11) Modern History students doing the Civil Rights Movement option. This WebQuest is designed to take 8 weeks with 2-3 lessons per week spent on the webquest.

Tasks will cover:

1. Background information on slavery, racism and state of civil rights in the USA prior to 1950.
2. Four dot points of the syllabus:

• Segregation in the US in the 1950s
• Martin Luther King and the use of non-violence to achieve civil rights
• The development of more radical methods and individuals in the 1960s
• Achievements of the Civil Rights Movement

  Scenario

  This WebQuest is located in a small town in Alabama. Here is a map of the USA with Alabama down south near the Gulf of Mexico, shown above in dark mauve between Mississippi and Georgia.