Creating an Online Civil Rights Movement Magazine
ASSIGNMENT SHEET
Your job is to create a magazine covering aspects of activism, culture, politics, arts, music, lifestyles and the like from one of the phases of the Civil Rights Movement. You will create this magazine in a group of two, with each person working to create a product that is reflective of the time period.
Magazine Requirements
You will choose a magazine format, which you will imitate. After analyzing the magazine's format, you will create a magazine that mimics that format. Examples will be provided in class.
As a group, you will create a magazine with the following components:
Cover Page Lead story, picture, title of magazine & date
Table of Contents (this has to be created last
One feature or news article per group member
Articles must be written as if they could be in your model
magazine during the Civil Rights Movement (e.g. in a 1960's issue of Time).
Each group must choose a different event and write a 1,600 word news article that uses primary sources from the same ONE of the three phases of the Civil Rights Movement. Some examples are below:
· Brown V. Board Victory
· Albany Movement
· Birmingham Movement
· Assassination of MLK, X, or JFK
Trial of Huey P. Newton
Articles should be typed in column format, like a newspaper or magazine.
Keep margins of 1 inch all around
All articles should be single spaced in a 11 pt font
The page on which your article is written should be in magazine format; that is, no large expanses of blank paper. To prevent this, you might wrap the article around a picture or an advertisement.
Your articles must correspond to the phase of your magazine and have some perspective of time. For instance, if your magazine is written in 1954, you cannot write include any information on Martin Luther King Jr., for he has not emerged yet.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Include a properly formatted bibliography at the end of your article. For each article, you must use at least two sources of information –
In addition to the article, each group member is responsible for the following:
3 Advertisements (one full page, one half page, and one quarter page)
You may copy images, but you must create the text yourself. The ads
must suit the audience of the magazine and be a popular product of the era.
1 Letter to the Editor - on a controversial issue specific to the phase on which you are writing
2 Political Cartoons (must be created, not copied) may be done on
full size page and then scanned and shrunk to quarter page.
These items should be original creations – not a print out from a computer or a copy of a political cartoon or advertisement you have seen in your research. They should combine your historical knowledge with your imagination. Each should be tailored to your magazine's audience.
ASSIGNMENT SHEET
Your job is to create a magazine covering aspects of activism, culture, politics, arts, music, lifestyles and the like from one of the phases of the Civil Rights Movement. You will create this magazine in a group of two, with each person working to create a product that is reflective of the time period.
Magazine Requirements
You will choose a magazine format, which you will imitate. After analyzing the magazine's format, you will create a magazine that mimics that format. Examples will be provided in class.
As a group, you will create a magazine with the following components:
Cover Page Lead story, picture, title of magazine & date
Table of Contents (this has to be created last
One feature or news article per group member
Articles must be written as if they could be in your model
magazine during the Civil Rights Movement (e.g. in a 1960's issue of Time).
Each group must choose a different event and write a 1,600 word news article that uses primary sources from the same ONE of the three phases of the Civil Rights Movement. Some examples are below:
· Brown V. Board Victory
· Albany Movement
· Birmingham Movement
· Assassination of MLK, X, or JFK
Trial of Huey P. Newton
Articles should be typed in column format, like a newspaper or magazine.
Keep margins of 1 inch all around
All articles should be single spaced in a 11 pt font
The page on which your article is written should be in magazine format; that is, no large expanses of blank paper. To prevent this, you might wrap the article around a picture or an advertisement.
Your articles must correspond to the phase of your magazine and have some perspective of time. For instance, if your magazine is written in 1954, you cannot write include any information on Martin Luther King Jr., for he has not emerged yet.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Include a properly formatted bibliography at the end of your article. For each article, you must use at least two sources of information –
In addition to the article, each group member is responsible for the following:
3 Advertisements (one full page, one half page, and one quarter page)
You may copy images, but you must create the text yourself. The ads
must suit the audience of the magazine and be a popular product of the era.
1 Letter to the Editor - on a controversial issue specific to the phase on which you are writing
2 Political Cartoons (must be created, not copied) may be done on
full size page and then scanned and shrunk to quarter page.
These items should be original creations – not a print out from a computer or a copy of a political cartoon or advertisement you have seen in your research. They should combine your historical knowledge with your imagination. Each should be tailored to your magazine's audience.
