Civil Rights Webquest
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart9.html
1. What are three ways African Americans resisted racial segregation and discrimination?
2. What other groups were inspired by African Americans struggle for civil rights?
3. Name the president during WW2 that wiped out military segregation?
Scroll down to the subheading “Psychological Effects on Racism”
4. In your own words, what was the “doll test”? What was the outcome of the test?
Scroll down to Thurgood Marshall on “Saving the Race”
5. Who was the first African American to serve on the US Supreme Court?
Scroll down to the Montgomery Bus Boycott
6. Who refused to give up her seat to a white person in Montgomery, Alabama?
Scroll down to James Meredith and Ole Miss
7. Who did the federal court order the University of Mississippi to accept? What did he do in
1966 that resulted in his death?
Scroll down to Two Baseball Greats
8. Name two famous African American baseball players inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
9. Who was the first black player in the major leagues?
Scroll down to the bottom and click Part 2
Sit-ins, Freedom Rides, and Demonstrations
10. What did the lunch sit-ins get accomplished in 1964?
Freedom Riders Seek to Integrate Southern Transportation
11. What did the Freedom Riders of the early 1960s want to be integrated? (3 things)
1963 March On Washington
12. Who was the reverend that delivered the stirring message with the refrain “I have a Dream”
at Washington, D.C.?
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
13. What did the Voting Rights Act of 1965 accomplish for African Americans?
http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/lbjforkids/civil.shtm
Click on Civil Rights Timeline
Scroll down to April 4th
14. MLK, Jr. was assassinated on (provide full date) ____________________________. His
killer’s name was ______________________________________, and he was sentenced to
_________ years in prison.
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/king-bio.html
15. Name two facts that you did not already know about Martin Luther King, Jr.
http://teacher.scholastic.com/rosa/index.htm
Click on Sitting Down
16. Who refused to give up her seat to whites on the Montgomery bus? How many years has she
been fighting for civil rights?
Click on Arrested
17. What happens to Rosa Parks when she refuses to give up her seat?
Click on Boycott
18. What do the black leaders in Montgomery decide to do in response to bus segregation? Who
leads to boycott?
19. African Americans in Montgomery decide to boycott the buses. How do they get to work?
Click on Dr. King’s Speech
20. How did Martin Luther King, Jr. ask the protestors to fight?
21. What were the 3 simple demands the protestors wanted from the bus company?
Click on Boycotts Work
22. What are 2 things the bus company had to do in response of African Americans boycotting
the buses?
Click on Nonviolence
23. What happens Dr. King’s home while he is at a church meeting?
24. Dr. King told his supporters that you must meet violence with what?
Click on Court Ruling
25. What did the Supreme Court rule on November 13th, 1956?
http://www.timeforkids.com/news/sitting-down-take-stand/5426
26. What was the goal of the four black students in Greensboro, North Carolina?
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/civilrightstimeline1.html
Scroll down to 1964
27. What did the 24th Amendment abolish?
Scroll down to 1965
28. Who was assassinated on Feb. 21st by members of the Black Muslim faith?
29. What happens on March 7th in Selma, Alabama?
Scroll down to 1992
30. What happens on April 29th 1992?