Students will work in partners to make a “family tree” of the civil rights movement. (Trees can be posters, web pages, etc.) The tree should include pictures of Baker, Carmichael, King, Malcolm X, and other civil rights leaders. It should also include organizations: NAACP, SNCC, SCLC, Nation of Islam, Black Panthers, and CORE. The students diagram the relationships, such as brother, cousin, mother, aunt, etc., then present their trees to the class and justify the relationships they chose to use among the leaders and organizations.

Each student should also answer the questions: 

How did the variety of approaches and ideas within the civil rights movement help it succeed? Hinder its success? Has it succeeded?