1.      The causes of the Great Depression

2.      The Cost of Living in the 1930’s (including food, housing, transportation, etc.)

3.      The Effect of the depression on the Farmers

4.      Unemployment

5.      Growing up Black vs. Growing Up White in the 1930’s

6.      Women’s Roles in the 1930’s

7.      Education in the 1930’s

a.    Brown   v.  Board of Education

b.    Plessy  v. Ferguson

8.      Role of the Courts/Trials of the 1930’s:

a. Powell  v. Alambama (Scottsboro Boys)

9.      Typical Lifestyle of professional People and their Families

10.  Relief Programs- What they are and why they were needed.

11.  Morals and Values of 1930’s 

a.       prohibition, etc.

12.  Jim Crow Laws

13.    Segregation -Society, Schools, Sports, Music etc.

14.  Entertainment

15.  Harper Lee- her life and influences

16.  important people: Jackie Robinson, Walt Dropo, Malcolm X, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Charlene Hunter, Gault  Orval Faubus , George Wallace

17.  Little Rock Nine

18.  Greensboro Four

19.  Negro Leagues

20.  1968

21.  Civil Rights Acts 1957, 1960

22.  Southern Christian Leadership Conference

23.  Student Non-Violent Coordination Committee

24.  Southern Manifesto, 1956

25.  Montgomery Bus Boycott

26.  The Great Black Migration

27.  Birmingham Church Bombing

28.  Sheff  vs. O’Neill

29.    Music:

Gospel, Blues, Doo Wop, Rhythm and Blues, Rock and Roll