Teaching Activity

Divide the class set into groups, each with the task of assessing the role of an individual in the development of African American civil rights. Choose from Booker T Washington; WEB du Bois; Marcus Garvey; A Philip Randolph; Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Jesse Jackson.

Each group should be given the task of drawing up a defence of the views of the person chosen.

Each group nominates a member to put forward their case in a class debate on:
‘Who achieved most for African Americans in his lifetime?’