A Civil Rights Tour of the South

• Introduction
• Task
• Process
• Evaluation
• Conclusion
• Credits


• Teacher Page

by Shellie Rich

The purpose of this WebQuest is to guide students in researching an itinerary for a trip to see the most important civil rights sites in the South. Students will be required to research, synthesize, and evaluate information, as well as to prepare a final product that will be presented to the class.

Introduction

In its complex past, the American South has been a place of beauty and a place of terror. It's a place where great acts of inhumanity occur side-by-side with great acts of courage. The Civil Rights Movement is a story of all of those things -- beauty and terror, inhumanity and courage -- and the primary setting of that story is the American South.