There have been many times in which other cultures have been discriminated against because of something that doesn’t really matter- like the stars on bellies. We are going to focus on the African American culture, specifically segregation and discrimination based on skin color.
Choose one person from the list below. You will be researching that person and writing a short (1-2 pages) research paper on him or her. We will be going to the library- you will be able to check out books about your historical figure then.
In your paper, talk about the hurdles that your figure had to jump. How did racial discrimination keep your person from using their gifts and talents? How did people treat them? How did they succeed?
In the last paragraph of your paper, connect what your person went through to what the plain-bellied Sneetches went through. How were their experiences different? How were they similar?
Harriet Tubman
Phyllis Wheatley
Nat Turner
Booker T. Washington
Madame CJ Walker
Louis Armstrong
Satchel Paige
Thurgood Marshall
Jesse Owens
Jackie Robinson
Muhammed Ali
Sojourner Truth
Frederick Douglas
Rosa Parks
Martin Luther King Jr
Malcolm X
W.E.B. DuBois
Langston Hughes
Zora Neale Hurston
Choose one person from the list below. You will be researching that person and writing a short (1-2 pages) research paper on him or her. We will be going to the library- you will be able to check out books about your historical figure then.
In your paper, talk about the hurdles that your figure had to jump. How did racial discrimination keep your person from using their gifts and talents? How did people treat them? How did they succeed?
In the last paragraph of your paper, connect what your person went through to what the plain-bellied Sneetches went through. How were their experiences different? How were they similar?
Harriet Tubman
Phyllis Wheatley
Nat Turner
Booker T. Washington
Madame CJ Walker
Louis Armstrong
Satchel Paige
Thurgood Marshall
Jesse Owens
Jackie Robinson
Muhammed Ali
Sojourner Truth
Frederick Douglas
Rosa Parks
Martin Luther King Jr
Malcolm X
W.E.B. DuBois
Langston Hughes
Zora Neale Hurston