Scavenger Hunt

1.) What was Rosa Parks Arrested for?

2.) What was Bloody Sunday?

3.) What was the Montgomery bus boycott?

4.) What does the kkk stand for?

5.) When was Martin Luther King jr. born?

6.) What were the Jim Crow laws?

7.) When did the civil rights movement occur?

8.) When was Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated?

 Answers

1.) December 1st 1955

2.) Six hundred marchers assembled in
Selma on Sunday, March 7, and, led by
John Lewis and other SNCC and SCLC
activists, crossed the Edmund Pettus
Bridge over the Alabama River to
Montgomery.
3.) African Americans refused to ride city
buses in Montgomery, Alabama.
4.) Ku Klux Klan.
5.) Martin Luther King Jr. was born on
January 15, 1929
6.) Legalized segregation between blacks
and whites.
7.) The Civil Rights Movement that began in
the late 1950's.
8.) April 4, 1968
 Website review
1.) http://kingencyclopedia.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/documentsentry/
doc_arrest_report_for_rosa_parks.1.html
This website receives a 3 for design and authority. There wasnt
really much to this website, it was plain and quite boring. The
coolest part about this website is the citations that occurred. This
receives a 5 in that category. There were pictures of documents that
are primary sources form the 1950s.

2.) http://www.blackpast.org/aah/bloody-sunday-selma-alabama-march-
7-1965
This website was a great one to use, navigation was very easy and
receives a 5 in that category. It was very clear and the search
engine was available. The site also showed absolutely no bias, and
portrayed only primary sources of articles and recorded events. It
kept strictly to facts on specific events. So in the bias category the
website received a 4. For design again this website receives a 4. It
was well organized and labelled well allowing easy access to other
topics.

3.) http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/montgomery-bus-
boycott
This website receives a 5 for design. It was very organized and
intriguing to the eye. There was a ton of information and even video
to offer other types of soaking in the information. The search bar
was present and there was no problem loading the website of any
kind. Navigability and authority were a 5 as well, this showed clearly
who the author was and additional links to other sites.

4.) http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/kkk-founded
There were active links to other works within the website so it
receives a 5 in the links category. There was not many handicapped
pages offered so it receives a 3 in that category. The site receives a
5 in dates, there were dates of creation for the website and articles.

5.) http://www.biography.com/people/martin-luther-king-jr-9365086
This website receives a 5 in authority category, there is a link to the
page on who created the website and all the contact information. All
sources were properly sited, using a full bibliography and active
links, receiving a 5. And the website design itself receives a 5. It was
clear cut and organized as well as captivating to the eyes.

6.) http://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/history/jim-crow-laws.html
 This website wasnt very easy to access receiving a 3 in navigability.
Though a search bar is easily located the direct article I attempted
to search took a while to find. The design receives a 3 as well. It was
a boring site, which was very wordy. There was a ton of information
that was on display but it was in small font and not broken up well.
The citation category for the site is a 4. Every piece of information
was sited with different links.

7.) http://www.pbs.org/johngardner/chapters/4b.html
This website receives a 1 in all categories. Though it was an article
of information that was present the website would not show. It was
just a plain article with a picture above it as well as a title. The
information given could be verified with other sites.

8.) https://www.maryferrell.org/pages/Martin_Luther_King_Assassination
.html
This website was amazing. It was strictly on the topic, and very
relevant, and exceeded all instructional objectives. The site was
easy to navigate as well as fun. The search bar was present and
directly placed you into multiple sited articles that were chosen. The
information about when the site was published and by who had its
own tab making this convenient.