Group+Process+Paper

=Black, white, male, or, female. That’s how people judged you when our country started. Is it fair that because you're born black or white, boy or girl you're better or worse off than someone else? Discrimination tears people down. That is why we decided to do our History Day Project on women and blacks' rights, and their fight to gain those rights. Since this is a very general topic we had to narrow it down. Finally, we decided to compare the different ways women and blacks fought for their rights, and the compromises that gained them those rights. = = To get us started, we read a book as a group, __There Comes a Time__ by Milton Meltzer. It gave us a lot of information about the civil rights movement. It told us about Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, the Little Rock Nine, the Greensboro Four, Linda Brown, and other blacks who took a stand. We also read a packet on women’s suffrage as a group. We focused on Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Next, we split up to work individually and read our own books. We searched the Internet for useful information and pictures. Along the way, we shared important facts that we discovered from these resources.= = We decided an exhibit was the best way to present our information because we wanted to visually show our audience what we learned. There is no limit to how long you can examine the display. =  **Our topic relates to the National History Day theme because the  fight for equal rights was a major conflict that needed to be solved. To reach a compromise, the blacks worked together in great numbers, and refused to give up until their goal was reached. The women used the same strategy of working together and refusing to quit until they gained their rights. If a compromise had not been found, women, who make up half of the population of our world, and blacks, whose population is growing rapidly in the United States, would still be treated wrongly today. **