Throughout history individuals and groups have taken great risks to pursue their beliefs, even if those ideas challenged the mainstream of society. This project will
ask you to explore a specific topic, event, or events surrounding an individual which either involves an action of nonconformity or intolerance.
You are to research and prepare a 3 to 5 page paper on one of the following topics:
1. Labor/Unions
a. Eugene Debs and Socialism
b. Industrial Workers of the World/Big Bill Haywood
2. Immigration
a. Sacco and Vanzetti
b. Japanese internment
c. Quota Acts
3. Religious Concerns
a. Revivalist
b. Scopes Trial
c. Prohibition
d. Trial and execution of Leo Frank
4. Political
a. Red scar and Attorney General Palmer's deportation
b. Nixon's Red scare/ Alger Hiss controversy
House Un-American Committee/Hollywood Ten/McCarthyism
5. Women's Rights
a. Margaret Sanger
b. National Women's Party v. American Women's Suffrate Association
c. Eleanor Roosevelt
6. Civil Rights
a. Rise of KK
b. Marcu Garvey
c. Brown v. Board of Education
d. Montgomery Bus Boycott
e. Little Rock
f. Jackie Robinson and exclusion from professional baseball
g. Selma to Montgomery
You will be graded on a 5 to 7 minute presentation on your topic and a 3 to 5 page thesis based paper. Please use MLA format including bibliography. Presentation should include a visual aid as well as a class handout.
Here are come excellent websites to begin your searching with. If you are planning to use search engines, then the Librarian's Internet Index is a great place to start!
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