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Civil
Rights Reading
Guide
Chpt. 21
1.
Sect 1
Name
Taking on Seg
regatIon
Due Date:
What was the process for boarding a bus for
blacks in Montgomery, Alabama in the 50s
?
2. What did the Court rule in the
3.
Hr.
p.700
Provide
Plessy v. Fergus
on case
5 examples of places
Jim Crow
LaWS
C.________________
b.
(1896)?
separated the races. a.
e.
The separate facilities for blacks were alw
ays equal to those of whites.
4. During WW I what specific problems did
blacks who headed north face?
a.
True
or
d.
False
b.
5.
True
or
False
segregation in 1952.
In general, what region of the U.S. required
school segregation in 1952?
6. In what 3 ways did WW II help set the stag
e for the civil rights movement?
a.
b.
Minnesota prohib
ited school
C.
lawyer argued the Brown’s case?
8. What was the Supreme Court’s verdict in the
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
case?
7.
What African-Am
eric
an NAACP
9. True
or
integrate their schools following the Brown
decision.
10. What 2 groups emerged to demonstrate thei
r resistance to school desegregation?
a.
b.
11. What was the purpose of the 1955
II ruling?
12. Who
the “Little Rock Nine?”
13. How did Arkansas Governor, Orvai Faubus
react to the NAACP plan to integrate Littl
e Rock
Central H.S.?
False
All states moved qui
ckly to
Brown
were
14.
How did
President Eisenhowe
r react to
the
actions of Govern
or
Faubus?
15. What did Faubus do at the end of the 1957
school year?
16. SpecifIcally, why
Parks
Dec. 1, 1955?
was Rosa
17.
arrested on
What organIzation
was formed to sup
port Rosa
18. Together, they organized a 381 day bus
that resulted in a Supreme Court
that outlawed
ruling
Parks?
(term) led by,
in 1956.
19. What did M.L. King learn from each of the follo
wing that inspired his own actions & beli
efs?
Jesus:
Henry David Thoreau:
A. Philip Randolph:
Mohandas Gandhi:
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20. Who was Emmett Till?
21. What was the purpose of SCLC?
Who was its president?
22. A similar organization of young people (SNCC), pronounced”
“,was formed in 1960.
SNCC was willing to be more confrontatlonal than the SCLC.
True or False
23. SNCC built upon the model of
(an earher protest group) by staging
to challenge segregated
counters.
True or False TV coverage of these protests helped expand the movement, even North.
Sect. 2: The Triumphs of Crusade p. 710
24.
What
was
the
goal
of
the
Freedom
Riders?
What happened to them?
25. What was the Kennedy administration’s ultimate response/ action in this matter?
26. Who was James Meredith and what was his goal?
27. In the end, Meredith achieved his goal with help from: Gov. Ross Barnett I Pres. JFK (circle).
28. Why was Birmingham, Alabama the perfect place to test the power of nonvloienóe in 1963?
29. How did Police commissioner Eugene “Bull” Connor’s men deal with the protesters?
30. The stunning images of Birmingham convinced Pres.____________ to draft a new civil rights act.
31. Who proclaimed: “Segregation fowl, Segregation tomorrow!, Segregation forever!”?
32. What happened just hours after JFK’s civil rights speech?
33. What was the goal of the March on Washington D.C.?
34.
Who
*
attended
the
August,
1963
J was here that
35. What happened:
gave his now famous”
Civil
Rights
Act
“speech.
2 weeks after the speech?
2 months after the speech?
36. The new President,
the
march?
of
pledged to carry on JFK’s work, and signed into law
1964 which:
37. What was the goal of the Freedom Summer Project?
Who volunteered for the project?
What state did the woricers focus on?
38. What happened to the 3 project workers that disappeared?
39. Following the killing of Jimmy Lee Jackson, M.L King announced a
mile protest march
from
to
. Alabama to call attention to Voting Rights.
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40. What role did the violence shown on TV play in this march?
41. Finally, Congress passed LBJ’s Voting Rights Act of 1965 which:
42. What Impact did
the Act have on the %of registered
blackvoters?
43. Spotlight: What did the 24th Amendment ban or abolish
Sect.
3
tripled
1964?
Challenges and Changes Inthe Movement p.717
44. Why
45.
in
doubled
List 3
is
defacto segregation harder to fight than de jure
problems for African American
a.
living in urban
b.
46. True or False
segregation?
areas in the North by the mid 1 960s.
c.
From 1964-1967 race riots were becoming more common in America’s cities.
47. Although President Johnson had declared War on
program, the money to fund the program was used to fund the war
in
through his Great Society
48. Who joined the Nation of Islam while in prison for burglary?
True or False
This man preached in favor of integration and pledged nonviolence.
49. What event changed Malcolm X’s views toward whites?
What
happened to
him
in 1965?
50. Who was shot and wounded during his one man “Walk against Fear?”
51. What new slogan did Stokiey Carmichael invent during the march?
Who urged Carmichael to stop using the phrase?
Why?
52. What things were the Blank Panthers advocating?
53. What happened in Memphis on April 4, 1968?
True or False
The nation’s cities responded with a period of quiet, peaceful, mourning.
54. What was the basic conclusion of the 1968 Kerner Commission’s report?
55. Describe 4 important gains made by the civil
a.
b.
56.
Spotlig
rights movement.
c.
d.
ht:
Shirley
Chisho
im
was
the
first
57. What trend had reversed much of the school integration efforts in the U.S. by
the 90s?
58. Chart:
.....% of blacks lived in poverty, nearly
x that of whites in that same year.
About how much greater was the % of whites completing college in 1999 than the % of
African Americans?
in 1999,
59. What is the purpose of Affirmative Action?
60. Describe the major criticism of affirmative action?