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Activity Four: Photo Analysis
There are two photo links to use for this activity:
http://archives.state.al.us/cvl/cvl_rit1.html
(photos of Selma-to-Montgomery march, Alabama Sovereignty
Commission)
http://www.spidermartin.com/gallery44.html
(Spider Martin Photo Gallery of the Selma-to-Montgomery
march)
Have students select at least five images from each
link that they think are the most moving. Students will
use the images to create a photo journal to tell the
story of the 1965 Selma-to- Montgomery voting rights
march. Each image must have a caption. The journal should
have a brief introduction explaining the importance
of the march. If students do not have access to the
Internet, the teacher should select the image or images
to display. The images may be shown as a PowerPoint
presentation or copied and used as transparencies. In
either case, students should use the Photo Analysis
Worksheet (pdf)
to interpret the documents.
Extension Activities:
Create a book jacket for a fictional book on the voting
rights struggle and its impact on the United States.
Write a children’s story of the voting rights
march.
Have students interview a family member who took part
in civil rights activities or who can remember events
of that era. Share the interviews with class.
Have students develop PowerPoint presentations that
shed light on the overall movement or that focus on
an aspect of it.
Read the article “The/A Child of the Movement”
(pdf) to gain the
perspective of a child who was a “foot soldier”
for justice. Ask students to discuss the article. Solicit
responses about what they would have done if they had
lived at that time.
Read the poems “Alabama Centennial” and
the “Road from Selma.” Have students write
poems to share what they have learned. Allow them an
opportunity to share their work with their classmates.
(pdf)
Ask students to do research to show how the voter rolls
changed in states other than Alabama.
Additional Resources:
http://www.nvrmi.org/
a virtual tour of the National Voting Rights Museum
http://www.bcri.org/resource_gallery/overview/index.htm#
online resource tour of the Birmingham Civil Rights
Institute
http://www.splcenter.org/center/tt/teach.jsp
The video "A Time for Justice." Teachers can
receive the video free of charge by contacting Teaching
Tolerance, the project that sponsors this website.
http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/voting/intro/intro.htm
Introduction to Federal Voting Rights Laws
http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/voting/intro/intro_a.htm
Before the Voting Rights Act
http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/voting/intro/intro_c.htm
The Effect of the Voting Rights Act
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/index.php
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow. Click on a Century of
Segregation to view the Interactive Timeline.
http://rubistar.4teachers.org
Securing the Vote Project rubrics. This website offers
a free service. If you do not have an account, you can
set one up and then you will be able to access the rubrics
developed for this project or use the website to create
one of your own.
http://www.turnersouth.com/video/player/0,,3288%7C7,00.html
Selma video
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