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Kennedy King College
Family Net Center
747 West 63rd Street
Building V Room 106
WEEK 2
Civil Rights Movement
Use the Internet to find the answers to these questions. Submit your answers in writing to The Family Net Center or via
email to [email protected]. All submissions are due by 5:00 pm on Friday, February 17, 2012.
1. Watch the clip entitled “Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock” to determine what historical event Daisy Bates
orchestrated. http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/blog/independent-lens-honors-black-history-at-tca
2. Name the students who became known as “The Little Rock Nine”?
3. Watch this clip from the motion picture “Boycott” to determine what historical event this movie depicted?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0255851/
4. True or False: Many Civil Rights Movement Organizations such as The Freedom Riders, CORE, SNCC and SCLC
consisted mainly of young people and college students.
5. Who coined the phrase “I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired”?
6. The Civil Rights Bill of 1964 did which of these?
a. Outlawed major forms of discrimination against African Americans and women
b. Ended unequal application of voter registration requirements
c. Ended unequal racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public
d. All of the above
7. What US Supreme Court decision overturned the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson ruling that sanctioned "separate but equal"
segregation of the races, ruling that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal"?
8. James Farmer, the one-time National Director Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), was also portrayed in what 21
Century movie?
9. What do the letters in SNCC and SCLC stand for?
10. Use this Civil Rights timeline to put these events in chronological order.
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/civilrightstimeline1.html
___ Four little girls are killed when a bomb explodes at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church
___ March on Washington
___ Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat of a bus to a white passenger
___ Four black students from North Carolina A & T began a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter
Bonus: Watch the film “Freedom Riders” and go to the Family Net Center’s Facebook account “Family Net Center
(Englewood)” and make a comment about the film. (Bonus 15 points)
Click on or cut and paste this link into the address box: http://video.pbs.org/video/1925571160
For more information about classes or programs at The Family Net Center contact Clarence Hogan at (773) 487-3731 or
check out The Englewood Portal at www.englewoodportal.org or our Facebook page: Family Net Center (Englewood)