Final Project

Good Day Class,

For your final project you still have to do a 2-3 minute historical video but the topic has changed. You can  either choose an African American sports player or Negro League team that you feel has made a positive contribution to African American History. This person should have played the sport before 1980. In the video you will answer the following:
-How is this person/team significant to African American History?
-When did the person/team play? What sport?
-How is this person/team remembered in 2013? Are they still relevant? Why? Why not?
-Why did you choose this person/team? How have they impacted you?
-How has the sport changed since the person/team played?

Please add any facts or stats that you find for the person/team. Also feel free to use music in the background but your voice should be featured reading the narrative of the video. Do not just answer the questions in short, choppy sentences, create a script that flows. Also, use pictures of the team/person throughout the video. You can use windows moviemaker, imovie, final cut pro, or any other movie making software that you may find. In the end the video will be posted to your youtube account and you will share it on your blog. Please start to look for topics and start to research some possible folks to look at.

By Monday October 21st you should have a proposal that outlines the person/team you chose and answering the question of why that person/team is significant to African American history. The proposal will also layout your plan for creating the video (what software you'll use, what sources you will use, etc.) Thereafter you will be tasked with doing research to create a good video. Please do NOTplagiarize! If you get information from a website about the person/team don't use it word for word, that's PLAGIARISM! Below you will find a few possible topics:

-Negro League Baseball Teams including: Atlanta Black Crackers, Baltimore Elite Giants, New York Cubans, St. Louis Stars, Newark Eagles, New York Black Yankees, Kansas City Monarchs

-Black Fives Negro League

-Jack Johnson

-Tommie Smith

-John Carlos

-Althea Gibson

-Arthur Ashe

-Lucy Diggs Slowe

-Wake Robin Golf Club

-Muhammad Ali

-Jessie Owens

-Bob Gibson

-Wilma Rudolph

-Bill Russell