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I created this fake RFP as the exigence for the rhetorical situation my business writing students will work within during their branding project. Here's a link to a template version: https://www.canva.com/design/DAEZalZJVkg/56WSq1JKc6VB-eE3IV6t7A/view?utm_content=DAEZalZJVkg&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=publishsharelink&mode=preview

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I use VoiceThread to have students make a virtual presentation analyzing a protest song from the Civil Rights Era.
They are tasked with presenting on:

Artist Background

Song Details

Context of Protest

Analysis of Style (Music/rhythm/beat)

Analysis of Lyrics (Poetic/literary devices)

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...Opening Spotify...

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This is the framework for my Protest Literature -- Civil Rights Era course. The course seeks to help students understand the links between the many protest movements of the 60s and 70s.

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1961

April: USSR puts first man in space

April: Bay of Pigs

August: National Indian Youth Council founded

November: Women Strike for Peace march

1962

March: United Farm Workers founded

May to December: Freedom Rides

June: SDS releases Port Huron statement

July to August: Albany Movement

September: Ole Miss integration

October: Cuban Missile Crisis

October: Operation Breadbasket

1963

February: La Alianza Federal de los Mercedes founded

May: Birmingham bombings and riot

June: Medgar Evers assassinated

July: Newport Folk Festival

August: March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

August: Nuclear Test Ban Treaty signed

September: Birmingham 16th Street Church bombing

September: War Resisters League antiwar protest

October: Chicago Freedom Day walkout

November: JFK assassinated

1964

January: LBJ announces War on Poverty

January: 25th Amendment ratified

February: New York Freedom Day walkout

February: The Beatles invade

April: Cleveland student protest

May: May 2nd Movement

June to August: Freedom Summer

June: Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner murdered

June: Jacobellis v Ohio

July: Civil Rights Act of 1964

August: Gulf of Tonkin resolution

November: LBJ elected president

October: Rolling Stones appear on Ed Sullivan Show

October to December: Free Speech Movement

December: National antiwar protests

December: UC Berkeley Sproul Hall sit-in

December: MLK accepts Nobel Peace Prize

1965

January: Selma Teacher's march

February: Malcolm X assassinated

March: Moynihan report released

March: Viola Liuzzo murdered

March: Bloody Sunday

March: Selma to Montgomery march

March to October: National antiwar teach-ins

April: March Against the Vietnam War

April: Julius Bar sip-in

May: Antiwar teach-in at UC Berkeley

May: Vietnam Day Committee founded

June: Griswold v Connecticut

June: International Poetry Incarnation

June to August 1966: Chicago Freedom Movement

July: Medicare signed into law

August: Voting Rights Act of 1965

August: Watts uprising

August: Alberta Odell Jones murdered

September to July 1970: Delano grapes strike

September: El Teatro Campesino founded

October: Hart-Celler Act

November: Veterans for Peace founded

1966

March to April: Delano to Sacramento march

June: Miranda v Arizona

June: National Organization of Women founded

July: Fort Hood Three

August: Compton Cafeteria riot

August: National Transsexual Counseling Unit founded

October: Black Panthers founded

November: Cuban Adjustment Act

1967

January: San Francisco Human Be-In

March: Mexican American Youth Organization founded

April: National Mobilization to End the War in Vietnam

April: Muhammad Ali refuses Vietnam War draft

April to October: Summer of Love

April: Nashville riot

May: Bobby Seale and armed Black Panthers enter California State Assembly

May: Spring Mobilization Conference

June: Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountain Music Festival

June: Vietnam Veterans Against the War founded

June: Loving v Virginia

July: Detroit riots

August: Thurgood Marshall confirmed to Supreme Court

December: Stop the Draft Week

December: Young Chicanos for Community Action founded

1968

January: Youth International Party founded

January: Tet Offensive

February: Orangeburg massacre

February: Kerner report released

March to October: East LA blowouts

March: My Lai massacre

March: National Council on Indian Opportunity created

March: Educational Issues Coordinating Committee founded

April: MLK assassinated

April: Oakland shootout with Black Panthers

April: Fair Housing Act/ Indian Civil Rights Act/ Anti-Riot Act

May: Resurrection City established

May: Cantonsville Nine

May: Louisville riot

June: Robert Kennedy assassinated

July: UC Berkeley student protests close campus

July: American Indian Movement founded

August: Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund founded

August: Democratic National Convention in Chicago

September: Miss America protests

September: Young Lords founded

October: Presidio mutiny

October: Mexico Olympics protest

November: Richard Nixon elected president

November to March 1968: San Francisco State strike

1969

January to February: University of Chicago Administration Building occupation

January: Brandeis Ford and Sydeman Hall occupation

January: Third World Liberation Front founded

February: Duke Allen Hall sit-in

February: UW Madison student protest

February: Tinker v Des Moines

February: Santa Barbara oil spill

March: Chicago 7 Trial

March: National Chicano Youth Liberation Conference

April: Harvard students sit-in

April: Cornell Willard Straight Hall occupation

April: Colgate Merill House occupation

April: Howard students occupation

April: CUNY student protests close campus

May: Bloody Thursday

May: Greensboro uprising

May: GI Alliance founded

June: Weather Underground founded

June: Stonewall riot

June: SDS splits into Worker Student Alliance and Revolutionary Youth Movement

July: US Moon landing

July: National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam founded

July: Gay Liberation Front founded

August: Charles Manson murders

August: Woodstock

September: GIs United Against the War in Vietnam founded

September: Chicano Liberation Day

October: Days of Rage

October to November: Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam protest and march

November to June 1971: AIM/Indians of All Tribes occupation of Alcatraz

December: Vietnam war draft lottery

December: Altamont Free Concert

December: Fred Hampton murdered

1970

January: Environmental Protection Agency established

January: La Raza Unida party founded

February: Weather Underground bombings

February: UC Santa Barbara student protests

February: SUNY Buffalo student protests

May to May 1971: New Haven Black Panther trials

May: Gloria Steinem testifies before Congress in support of Equal Rights Amendment

May: Kent State massacre

May: Jackson State massacre

May: International Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty takes effect

May: National GI Antiwar Conference

May: Huey Newton trial

June: Christopher Street Liberation Day

June: Fort Lewis Six

August: UW Madison Sterling Hall bombing

August: Women's Strike for Equality

August: Chicano Moratorium Committee Los Angeles march

September: Operation RAW

November: AIM occupation of Mayflower replica

1971

January: Winter Soldier investigation

January: Wilmington school boycott

February: Mike's Grocery firebombing and Wilmington 10 trial

March: Ali vs Frazier heavyweight champion fight

March: COINTELPRO exposed

April: Veterans Against the War testify before Congress

April: Operation Dewey Canyon III

May: La Marcha de la Reconquista

May: May Day protests

June: AIM occupation of Mt. Rushmore

June: Pentagon Papers leaked

June: Cohen v California

July: 26th Amendment ratified

July: National Women's Political Caucus founded

September: Attica prison riot

September: John Sinclair freedom rally

December: Vietnam veterans occupation of Statue of Liberty and Lincoln Memorial

1972

January: Roe v Wade

February to June: Angela Davis trial

May: Weather Underground bombing of Pentagon

June: Watergate

June: Title IX established by Education Amendments of 1972

August: Republican National Convention in Miami

September: Richard Oakes murdered

October to November: Trail of Broken Treaties caravan

November: AIM occupation of BIA office in Washington

November: Richard Nixon re-elected president

November: Southern University massacre

1973

January: Paris Peace Agreements signed

February to May: AIM occupation of Wounded Knee

May: Senate Watergate hearings

July: Summer Jam at Watkins Glen

September: King vs Riggs Battle of the Sexes

October: Vice President Spiro Agnew resigns; Gerald Ford tapped as replacement

1974

August: Richard Nixon resigns after impeachment

1975

April: Fall of Saigon

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My favorite lecture; introducing southern studies in literature.

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My favorite lecture; introducing southern studies in literature.

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I like to introduce "the South" as fantasy when I start a southern studies unit. To do this, I use Flannery O'Connor's short story "A Late Encounter with the Enemy."