A written essay connecting the Civil Rights Movement to a current event. Use outside sources and put them in conversation with some of the relevant works you learned about throughout the semester. Where footnotes are called for, please use the Chicago Manual ofStyle 16th edition. I realize many of you come from different disciplines and use a variety of styles to indicate scholarship. Required readings -McGuire, Danielle. At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance –A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of BlackPower. New York: Random House, 2011. (Available on Audible)Carson, Clayborne. 1987. Eyes on the prize: America′s civil rights years : a reader and guide. New York, NY: Penguin Books.Joseph, Peniel E., ed. The black power movement: Rethinking the civil rights-black power era. Taylor
