We are going to talk about the march from Selma to Montgomery and how it changed African Americans percent on voting. Six hundred people gathered and led by John Lewis and Hosea Williams of SCLC, to go on a voting march. The March took place on Bloody Sunday, March 7, 1965 and wasn’t put into effect until Thursday morning March 25, 1965. Most of the marchers where from the south. This is important because it helped everyone that was segregated to vote get more voting percentage. The marching helped everyone and it had been put to use with our following and upcoming presidents. This means that the decision and outcome of our presidents were based on the march and other rights that took place. This relates to the Box Project because it explains why many ethnic groups got more voting percentage when it came to choosing a president.

S.S Benchmark Brainstorm: Tkeyah Chandler, London Artis: (complete)

What we basically did was that we brained stormed ideas on what we wanted to talk about.

Develop Topic and Project Ideas: T'keyah Chandler: (complete)

What we basically did was we gathered the we had and put them together.

Historical Research & Pre-write: T'keyah Chandler: (complete)

what we basically did was we wrote our ideas down. Turned them in so they could be graded.

Conceptual Solution (Sketch #1) Feasability Assessmeny : T'keyah Chandler: (complete)

What we basically did waas we drew a first sketch to see if it was feasable for our light box.

Descriptive Essay & Poem prewriting: T'keyah Chandler:(complete)

All we basicalyy did was wrote a poem on our subject and we had to describe what our box does in each step.

T’keyah Chandler

March 24, 2009

Group A

The Light Box Project

The benchmark chosen is people in society. The benchmark that is being addressed is to analyze the consequences of oppression and discrimination and conflict between cultures. The subject chosen was the march from Selma to Montgomery.

This first image has blue LEDs that represent the policeman on one side of the bridge and green LEDs that represent the people trying to march across the bridge the first time they marched to Selma to get the privilege or right to vote. They were not able to reach their destination because they were stopped by the policemen at the end of the bridge at gun point. The day of the march they called it Bloody Sunday because of all the violence and pain the marchers went through that day.

The second image represents the way the marchers were running back the way they came because of how they were not able to cross the bridge due to you were either arrested or beaten. The third image shows how the marchers didn’t give up and went back across the bridge and how it was successful. The box represents the way African Americans fought for freedom and rights, and also how brave they were to stand up for what they thought was right.

The march from Selma to Montgomery was important and it paved the way for legislation of the Voting Rights Act of 1964. The march all started when Selma black leaders asked Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., to come to their town with his organization and help to get people registered to vote. The organization that Mr. King is with is the SCLC, which means the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Another reason they asked him to come is because their town has a total population of 30,000 people, and of that 15,000 are blacks who are registered to vote. The blacks who are registered to vote only have 333 of them who get counted. While Mr. King was there, he stood with 250 citizens who wanted to vote. They were thrown in jail. 500 school kids heard about what happened and started to march, until they were arrested. Two days later 300 more were arrested. In Selma every time someone marchers, they are beaten by the police. On March 7, 1965 six hundred men, women, and children gathered in Selma to march a 58 mile walk to Alabama’s capital Montgomery, on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. After getting close to the end of the bridge, they were stopped by Montgomery police and they were equipped with weapons to stop the marchers. After a while, the police threw tear gas and hitting them with other weapons. Six days after the incident, 4,000 blacks and whites marched from the Pettus Bridge and camped outside. This time they were protected by National Guardsmen. On March 25, 1965 they have reached the capital and 25,000 people have joined them to march. At the state capital they had received what they were marching for. This is important because it helped the voting rights act get put into place even more and it had been helping with the presidents we get to choice. What this means is that the decision and outcome of our United Stated presidents were based on the Voting Rights march. This relates to the Box Project because it explains why we have had the presidents that we had.

If it weren’t for the brave men and women to march across the bridge to fight for our rights to vote on Sunday, March 7,of 1965 then we would not have the wonderful new presidents Barrack Obama and maybe there will still segregation in the world. The images explain that there was a conflict of oppression, and discrimination between two cultures and the consequences that came of this.

The march from Selma to Montgomery 2002 http://www.pbs.org/wnet/historyofus/web15/segment5_p.html

“Selma to Montgomery”. spidermartin online. 1992 <http://www.spidermartin.com/history.html>.

1. What is going well? nothing is going well right now.

2. What is not going well? The things that are not going well is the whole project. There is no team work and every teacher is tell us different rules and what to do and its confusing me.

3. What do you need to do to make sure that you meet all of your deadlines? Try my best to get along with the teachers and students and try to make it to every class early.

4. What is your overall impression of the project? I thought the project was gone to be fun.

5. If you had to rate your own progress what score would you give yourself? I would give myself a 5 because I had alot  of work to do with job shadowing and the box project and I still manage to get all my work done.

How does the box work? The person would have to push the button and the box will light up and we will explain what's going on and what it means.

What matrials were used to make the box? The materials used to create the box are LEDs and buttons.

How does the box interact with an outside system? The device has buttons. The person has to interact with the box. They have to press the buttons to make it work. Its interactive and manual. To get the box to start running you have to press the button number 1 then the LEDs will light up and Tkeyah will explain what's going in the 1st image and the same for the rest of the other squares.