UNIT 8 QUICK SHEET – THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
COMPELLING QUESTION: Is nonviolent protest effective?
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Civil Rights movement
Lynching
Emmett Till
Nonviolent civil disobedience
Thurgood Marshall
Brown v. Board of Education
Rosa Parks
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Southern Christian Leadership
Conference (SCLC)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Little Rock Nine
Civil Rights Act of 1957
Filibuster
Sit-ins
Medgar Evers
Freedom Riders
Student Nonviolent Coordinating
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Voter Education Project
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Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
James Meredith
Letter from a Birmingham Jail
The Children’s March
Robert F. Kennedy
March on Washington
Civil Rights Act of 1964
24th Amendment
Selma March
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Black Power movement and
Stokely Carmichael
Malcolm X
Black Panthers
Watts Riot
Kerner Commission
Nation of Islam
Students for a Democratic Society
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36. National Organization for Women
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37. Title IX
38. Office of Equal Opportunity
39. Warren Court
40. Miranda v. Arizona
41. Affirmative Action
42. UC Regents v. Bakke
43. Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta
44. La Raza Unida
45. American Indian Movement (AIM)
46. Wounded Knee (1973)
47. Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
48. Phyllis Schlafly
49. Roe v. Wade
50. Stonewall Riots
51. Gay Liberation Movement
52. Harvey Milk
53. HIV/AIDS epidemic
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
1. Explain how earlier events and movements helped lead to the rise of the civil rights movement in the 1950s.
2. What was the ruling in Brown v. Board of Education? How was it limited in ending racial discrimination in America?
3. Why was Rosa Park's courageous stand and the resulting Montgomery bus boycott so important to the 1950s civil rights
movement?
4. How did Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy respond to the civil rights movement? In what ways were their actions
similar, and what ways were they different? Why?
5. How did the media affect the civil rights movement? Give examples in your answer.
6. Explain Martin Luther King’s reasoning behind non-violent civil disobedience.
7. How were young people involved in the fight for civil rights? How successful were their protests? Why?
8. Why was the Civil Rights Act of 1964 such an important piece of legislation?
9. How did the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the 24th Amendment affect African American voting rights?
10. Describe the various African American organizations that were created during the 1950s, and how they fought
segregation and racism.
11. Why did riots break out in Watts in 1965? What was the federal government’s response to the riots?
12. What were some of the key beliefs advocated by Malcolm X? How and why did his ideas/tactics differ from those of Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.?
13. Explain the development of the Black Power movement and the creation of the Black Panthers. Why did they arise? What
were their goals?
14. How did the SDS and Free Speech Movement show the frustration of America’s youth with the status quo?
15. Explain and give examples how the Warren Court expanded civil and individual rights.
16. What were the goals of affirmative action policies? How did this negatively affect Allan Bakke?
17. What was the reason behind the creation of the United Farm Workers and their strike in the late 1960s?
18. Why did the AIM occupy Alcatraz and Wounded Knee? What was the long-term result of these protests?
19. How did Second Wave feminists seek to gain social, economic, and political equality? How successful were they?
20. What were the goals of the ERA? What were some of the reasons people opposed it?
21. What events sparked the Gay Liberation Movement? How were laws and social attitudes changed towards
homosexuality as a result?
TEST DATE: ________________________________________________________
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