AMERICAN HISTORY
CHAPTER 21 PACKET:
Civil Rights
Take-Home Homework Packet
100 Points
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21.1
Taking on Segregation
pp. 700-709
OUTLINING YOUR NOTES: Take notes as you read the text. Use outline formatting.
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The Segregation System
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Plessy v. Ferguson
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Segregation Continues into the 20th Century
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A Developing Civil Rights Movement
Challenging Segregation in Court
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The NAACP Legal Strategy
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Brown v. Board of Education
Reaction to the Brown Decision
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Resistance to School Desegregation
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Crisis in Little Rock
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
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Boycotting Segregation
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Walking for Justice
Martin Luther King and the SCLC
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Changing the World with Soul Force
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From the Grassroots Up
The Movement Spreads
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Demonstrating for Freedom
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21.1
Taking on Segregation
pp. 700-709
TERMS AND NAMES: For each term or name, write a sentence explaining its significance.
1. Thurgood Marshall
2. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
3. Rosa Parks
4. Martin Luther King, Jr.
5. Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
6. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
7. sit-in
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21.1
Taking on Segregation
pp. 700-709
MAIN IDEAS: Answer each question as you read the text.
A. What were the effects of the Supreme Court decision Plessy v. Ferguson?
B. How did events during World War II lay the groundwork for African Americans to fight for civil rights in the 1950s?
C. How did the Brown decision affect schools outside of Topeka?
D. Why weren’t schools in all regions desegregated immediately after the Brown II decision?
E. What effect do you think television coverage of the Little Rock incident had on the nation?
F. Why was Rosa Parks’s action on December 1, 1955, significant?
G. What were the central points of Dr. King’s philosophy?
H. What was the role of the SCLC?
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21.2
The Triumphs of a Crusade
pp. 710-716
OUTLINING YOUR NOTES: Take notes as you read the text. Use outline formatting.
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Riding for Freedom
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New Volunteers
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Arrival of Federal Marshals
Standing Firm
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Integrating Ole Miss
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Heading into Birmingham
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Kennedy Takes a Stand
Marching to Washington
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The Dream of Equality
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More Violence
Fighting for Voting Rights
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Freedom Summer
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A New Political Party
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The Selma Campaign
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Voting Rights Act of 1965
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21.2
The Triumphs of a Crusade
pp. 710-716
TERMS AND NAMES: For each term or name, write a sentence explaining its significance.
1. freedom riders
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James Meredith
3. Civil Rights Act of 1964
4. Freedom Summer
5. Fannie Lou Hamer
6. Voting Rights Act of 1965
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21.2
The Triumphs of a Crusade
pp. 710-716
MAIN IDEAS: Answer each question as you read the text.
A. What did the freedom riders hope to achieve?
B. What events led to desegregation in Birmingham?
C. Why did civil rights organizers ask their supporters to march on Washington?
D. Why did civil rights groups organize Freedom Summer?
E. Why did young people in SNCC and the MFDP feel betrayed by some civil rights leaders?
F. In what ways was the civil rights campaign in Selma similar to the one in Birmingham?
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21.3
Challenges and Changes in the Movement
pp. 717-725
OUTLINING YOUR NOTES: Take notes as you read the text. Use outline formatting.
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African Americans Seek Greater Equality
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Northern Segregation
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Urban Violence Erupts
New Leaders Voice Discontent
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African-American Solidarity
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Ballots or Bullets?
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Black Power
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Black Panthers
1968—A Turning Point in Civil Rights
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King’s Death
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Reactions to King’s Death
Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement
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Civil Rights Gains
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Unfinished Work
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21.3
Challenges and Changes in the Movement
pp. 717-725
TERMS AND NAMES: For each term or name, write a sentence explaining its significance.
1. de facto segregation
2. de jure segregation
3. Malcolm X
4. Nation of Islam
5. Stokely Carmichael
6. Black Power
7. Black Panthers
8. Kerner Commission
9. Civil Rights Act of 1968
10. affirmative action
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21.3
Challenges and Changes in the Movement
pp. 717-725
MAIN IDEAS: Answer each question as you read the text.
A. How were civil rights problems in Northern cities similar to those in the South?
B. What were some of the causes of urban rioting in the 1960s?
C. Why did some Americans find Malcolm X’s views alarming?
D. Why did some leaders of SCLC disagree with SNCC tactics?
E. Why was the public reaction to the Black Panthers mixed?
F. What were some accomplishments of the civil rights movement?
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