Two projects
1 - Individual Performance - Kent State
Kent State Song by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
Lewis and Hensely Book( 1978) FROM ABE.com
Iowa resource guide to protests
Get articles from New York Times - sam.gachik@ottumwaschools.com, bulldogs
Campus Wars - Heineman - ON AMAZON
Determine how people's understanding of the event changed over time.
Political life
Discourse/ dialog
Cultural Impact
Iowa Life
2 - Group Performance - Brian's Song
Brian's Song, IMDB and Wikipedia
ESPN Article about Book /Movie
Performance - 7 minutes Over Gale Sayers
He was one of the first black players to have a white roomate.
Costumes - Football Uniforms.
Henry Altfillisch and Vinnie Bishop
Interesting topic. Saw movie - Brian's song.
We like football. Changing point - about rights.
Sayers - KU (chamberlin - KU 58?)
Picolo - (Wake Forrest - South)
Before
During
Impact
Short Term
News.google.com
Long Term
More black people in the NFL
Quantify that?
Black people in the NFL then? Black people in the NFL now?
Johnathan (black - Stanford) vs. white (Incognito - Big 12, SEC).
Sports movies
"Set the model for how blacks and whites get along in NFL"
Dates
People
Blacks and whites in NFL
History of integration in the NFL
12/6/13
Corroborte sources and ideas about integrated roomates in the NFL.
Fist roomates in MLB? NHL? and NBA?
A - Also, specify other races involves in NFL?
B - How often does it happen?
Find statistics on roomates of different races in major professional sports.
C - Timeline
Rosa Parks got kicked off the bus
Martin Luther King, Jr did something with Civil Rights in the 1960s.
Slaves were free in 1864.
Jackie Robinson - 1949
Integration of the Armed Services - 1948
d - players and society
e - remake is more emotional.
cancer is more realistic.
desire for more people to connect.
Everything has to be more emotional - people now are used to the issues that were first shown.
first movie - focused on roomates and social issues and personal struggle, second one is more cancer.
pack an additonal emotional punch.
25 years for sports to move from blacks and whites separately to b and w together.
Kent State
April 30, 1970 - Invasions of Cambodia Announced
May 14, 1970 - Jackson state University shooting
Anti - Vietnam Protests.
Berkerley Teach In
SDS founded in Michigan
Wisconsin Bombing
Norman Morrison
Dates: March 14, 2014.
Be able to answer the following questions (these will help you develop your thesis statement):
1. What is the CONTEXT that created my event? What was the political, social, cultural, and intellectual atmosphere during the time of my event? What happened before my event that led up to my actual event?
2. What was the IMPACT and SIGNIFICANCE of my event? How did my event CHANGE HISTORY?
3. How did my topic reshape the established/accepted ideas?
4. What kind of social, political, and/or cultural action did your topic inspire?
5. Did everyone accept your topic? If no, how do they respond?
6. How did your topic spread to new people and places?
7. How did my event influence history? (What was the ripple effect?) What are the long-term effects of your subject in history?
8. How are our lives different today as a result of your topic?
9. How does your topic fit with the theme?
10. SO WHAT? Why should the judges care about your topic?