Lesson 2 \u2013 Timeline of Major Civil Rights Events
VT Standards:
Objectives:Students create an original, hand-drawn timeline of major civil rights era

timeline paper \u2013 12 x 36 inches
Colored pencils
Rulers
Instruction sheet

Upon completing the map project, introduce students to the need to keep a
correct chronological sequence of events. Since the Civil Rights movement was a series
of different events over the course of roughly a decade, keeping a straight timeline is
especially valuable and important.

Create a timeline of the major Civil Rights events which you located on your map. The timeline will help give you a sense of when each event happened, which were earlier in the movement, and which were the \u201cculminating events.\u201d

1. Your timeline must cover a 20 year time span. Take the timeline paper provided and figure out how to divide it up into 20 even parts. Each part will count as 1 year, and must be large enough to contain a picture (which you draw) and a short paragraph (which you write). THINK THIS THROUGH!! Talk it out and plan with your partner before you start making marks on the paper.

4. These are the events for your timeline. Research each event in the library or
online to learn about it and the year it happened. Check off each one when you
are finished putting it on your timeline.

l. Civil Rights workers Goodman, Schwerner, and Chaney disappear near Philadelphia, Mississippi. Their murdered bodies are found many weeks later.