Chapter 29: Civil Rights Read pages 904 to 932. Answer the questions. Section 1: Taking on Segregation What humiliating event did Jo Ann Gibson Robinson face in 1955? How did the segregation system work? What did the famous court case of Plessy v. Ferguson say about segregation? What was flawed about the ruling? During WWI, what did many southern African Americans decide to do? In what way is American segregation similar and different to South African Apartheid? How did WWII set the stage for the civil rights movement? How was Charles Hamilton Houston influential? What were the major accomplishments of Thurgood Marshall? What was at stake in the court case Brown v. Board of Topeka Kansas? What ruling did Chief Justice Earl Warren make? How did the state of Arkansas resist Brown v. Board decision? Who were the Little Rock Nine? What steps did President Eisenhower take to resolve the Little Rock Crisis? What historic action did Rosa Parks take in 1955? Who emerged as the leader of the Montgomery Bus Boycott? How did the boycott achieve success? Eventually what position did the Supreme Court take on the segregated buses of Montgomery? What ideas and philosophies did Martin Luther King bring to the civil rights movement? What organization did King start? What was this purpose of this group? What organization did college students start? What new tactic did CORE and SNCC create in Greensboro, NC? How does it work? Section 2: The Triumphs of a Crusade Who were the freedom riders? What was James Peck’s experience as a freedom rider like? Who was the leader of the Freedom Riders? What role did Federal Marshals play in the Freedom Rider Movement? What happened to a Freedom Rider bus in Montgomery? Who was James Meredith? What courageous act did he undertake? What happened at the college because of what Meredith was trying to do? Who invited King to Birmingham? Why was Birmingham perhaps the toughest of all places in the south? Who was the antagonist in Birmighham? What were his tactics to stop King and SCLC? What historic document did King compose in a jail? What did it say? What role did JFK play in the Birmigham demonstrations?
Chapter 29: Civil Rights Read pages 904 to 932. Answer the questions. Section 1: Taking on Segregation What humiliating event did Jo Ann Gibson Robinson face in 1955? How did the segregation system work? What did the famous court case of Plessy v. Ferguson say about segregation? What was flawed about the ruling? During WWI, what did many southern African Americans decide to do? In what way is American segregation similar and different to South African Apartheid? How did WWII set the stage for the civil rights movement? How was Charles Hamilton Houston influential? What were the major accomplishments of Thurgood Marshall? What was at stake in the court case Brown v. Board of Topeka Kansas? What ruling did Chief Justice Earl Warren make? How did the state of Arkansas resist Brown v. Board decision? Who were the Little Rock Nine? What steps did President Eisenhower take to resolve the Little Rock Crisis? What historic action did Rosa Parks take in 1955? Who emerged as the leader of the Montgomery Bus Boycott? How did the boycott achieve success? Eventually what position did the Supreme Court take on the segregated buses of Montgomery? What ideas and philosophies did Martin Luther King bring to the civil rights movement? What organization did King start? What was this purpose of this group? What organization did college students start? What new tactic did CORE and SNCC create in Greensboro, NC? How does it work? Section 2: The Triumphs of a Crusade Who were the freedom riders? What was James Peck’s experience as a freedom rider like? Who was the leader of the Freedom Riders? What role did Federal Marshals play in the Freedom Rider Movement? What happened to a Freedom Rider bus in Montgomery? Who was James Meredith? What courageous act did he undertake? What happened at the college because of what Meredith was trying to do? Who invited King to Birmingham? Why was Birmingham perhaps the toughest of all places in the south? Who was the antagonist in Birmighham? What were his tactics to stop King and SCLC? What historic document did King compose in a jail? What did it say? What role did JFK play in the Birmigham demonstrations?
academicch1to34hwfortheyear.docx