The Civil Rights Movement
Segregation Divides America
1. What did the court case Plessy vs Ferguson say about segregation?
2. In what areas of life was segregation enforced?
3. List 4 ways that segregation negatively impacted the lives of blacks in America?
4. What did the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) do to try to end segregation?
5. Who was Jackie Robinson?
6. What did President Harry Truman do in 1948 to stop segregation?
Brown vs Board of Education
7. In the 1950’s, what area of life did the NAACP, led by Thurgood Marshall, fight to end discrimination in?
8. What did the Brown vs Board of Education ruling say?
9. What did “Brown II” say about how quickly schools should be integrated?
Federal and State Governments Clash
10. What happened when Arkansas tried to integrate Central High School in Little Rock?
11. How did President Dwight D Eisenhower react to the problems at Central High School?
12. What did the Civil Rights Act of 1957 do?
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
13. How did Rosa Parks begin the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
14. Who became the leader of the year long bus boycott in Montgomery?
15. How did the bus boycott end?
Student Activists Make a Difference
16. What was a “sit-in”?
17. How did “non-violent” protest work?
Riding for Freedom
18. What were the freedom rides?
19. What happened to the buses in the freedom rides? And how did President Kennedy react?
Protests and Confrontations Intensify
20. Who was James Meredith and why was he important?
21. What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 say?
The Movement Marches on Washington
22. How many demonstrators attended the March of Washington?
23. Where was the most important speech of the March given? Who gave it? What is it now called?
Congress Passes the Civil Rights Act of 1964
24. What occurred on September 15, 1963? In Birmingham, Alabama?
25. What happened on November 22nd 1963 in Dallas Texas?
26. What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 say?
The Push for Voting Rights
27. How had blacks been prevented from voting in the South?
28. What happened during “Freedom Summer” 1964 in Mississippi?
29. What happened in Selma, Alabama in 1965?
30. What did the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the 24th Amendment do to help blacks to vote?
Frustration Explodes into Violence
31. Where did racial violence break out in the 1960’s?
New Voices for African Americans
32. How did Malcolm X, the Nation of Islam, and the Black Panthers differ from Martin Luther King’s message?
Martin Luther King’s Final Days
33. What happened on April 4, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee?
34. What were some gains of the early Civil Rights Movement?
35. What were some areas of controversy that still remained into the 70s?