History Project Help Me Choose A Project!? :) Thanks..!?

Question

I want to do a type of project along the lines of civil rights racial

tensions like an event little people know about. i was going to do

remember the titans the real story of 2 mixed racial groups forging

together but there is too many diffrences between real life and the

movie. Doing a simple project of Martin Luther King would be nice but

is mostly what everyone does. I want to do something people will

remember like a specific event at a university or town something that

has meaning...Can Anyone Help Or Give Me Any Ideas?

Thanks For Just Reading..X x x x xXxX

Answer 1

How about the Greensboro Sit ins (NC) 4 freshman in college started a movement that deseg the woolworth lunch counter. A lot of whites also joined in to help. A lot of racial tensions there.

You could do remember the titans and talk about how blacks and whites acted towards each other after the school waIntegrateded. And when the white kid from CA and the black kid went to threstaurantnt and they couldn't be served together.

Answer 2

Prince Edward County, VA 1954.

One of the many cases tried under Brown v. Board - Really a starting point for the Civil Rights in Education Movement. Really interesting.

Answer 3

Trying doing a project on Brown v. Board of Education. It's when the Supreme Court Unanimously said that segregation in public schools in unconstitutional, and it gave way to outlawing segregation in all 50 states.

Answer 4

How about racial problems in South Africa, how Nelson Mandela lead everything? or the issues between white people and Native americans?

Answer 5

There is lots of information on the Port Chicago Disaster http://www.portchicagomutiny.com/



http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=port+chicago&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=



Or the little known Detroit race riot of 1943

http://www.eotu.uiuc.edu/pedagogy/grogers/GRP/Detroit_1.htm



http://www.google.com/search?num=30&hl=en&q=detroit+riots+1943&btnG=Search