The
Civil Rights Movement Study Guide
Chapter One: Jim Crow South
1. 13th,
14th, 15th Amendments
2.
Mississippi Plan
3. Ku Klux
Klan
4. Poll Tax
5.
Grandfather Clause
6. Literacy
Test
7. Reconstruction
8. Jim Crow
9. Black
Codes
10. The Birth of A Nation
11. Plessy vs Ferguson
12.
segregation
13. Document
1 (Page 140)
Chapter Two: Origins of the Movement
1. Booker T.
Washington
2.
disenfranchisement
3. W.E.B Du
Bois
4. National
Association For the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
5. A. Philip
Randolph
6. Marcus
Garvey
7. Great
Migration
8.
affirmative action
9.
non-violent resistance
10. sit-ins
11. To Secure These Rights
12. Jackie
Robinson
Chapter Three: The Brown Decision
1. What was Thurgood
Marshall's strategy leading to Brown Decision? (p 22-23)
2. List six
conditions that existed due to discrimination in education in South Carolina. What
actions did South Carolina take? How did Marshall adapt ? (22)
3. What
measures did Eisenhower take before Brown v. Board? (24)
4.. Earl
Warren
5. Brown vs.
Board of Education
6. What
states complied with Brown? (25)
7. What was
Eisenhower's position on Brown? How did his actions contribute to the
continuance of segregation? (24-25)
8. How did
the language of Brown, "with all deliberate speed" become a problem?
(24-on)
9. How did
the states participate in "the greatest defiance of the federal government
since the Civil War"? (24-on)
10. List at
least six measures taken by southern states to resist the Brown decision.
(26-on)
11. Southern
Manifesto (26)
12. States
Rights (26)
13. Uncle
Tom (26)
14.
Citizen's Council (27)
15. James
Eastland (27)
16. Emmett
Till (28-29) How did the Till Case effect the movement?
17. Autherine
Lucy (29)
18. Ruby
Bridges (30)
19. What was
the significance of the Brown decision? How effective was it? (29-30)
20. How were
the white authorities complicit in the violence?
Chapter 4: Little Rock Crisis
1. Orval
Faubus (33-)
2. Daisy
Bates (34)
3. Elizabeth
Eckford (35)
4. Ernest
Green (34-)
5. How was
the Little Rock Crisis viewed abroad? (37)
6. The
Little Rock Nine
7. When were
the Little Rock schools integrated? (39)
8. What were
the residual effects of the crisis? What was the significance? (40)
9. Documents
1, 2, 3, 4 (140-142)
10. How were
the white authorities complicit in the violence?
Chapter 5: Montgomery Bus Boycott
1. E.D Nixon
(43)
2. What were
the conditions for blacks in Montgomery, Alabama before the boycott? (43)
3. Jo Ann
Robinson (43)
4. Ralph
Abernathy (44)
5. Rosa
Parks (44)
6.
Highlander Folk School
7.
Montgomery Improvement Association (46)
8. List
several of the influences of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (46-47)
9. List five
methods the black community used to make the boycott effective. (49)
10. List five
methods the white community used to defeat the boycott. (49-)
11. Frank
Johnson (50)
12. Gayle
vs. Browder (50)
13. List
three ways the Montgomery Bus Boycott was significant in the Civil Rights
Movement. (51-)
14. Southern
Christian Leadership Conference
13. Civil
Rights Act of 1957
14. Civil
Rights Act of 1960
15. How were
the white authorities complicit in the violence?
Chapter 6: Sit-Ins
1. Greensboro
Four
2. Floyd McKissick
3. How did
economics figure into the movement's strategy in Nashville? (56)
4. "Jail,
No Bail"
5. What were
the tactics used by the movement in Nashville (57)
6. Julian
Bond
7. How did
the sit-ins spread throughout the South? (58)
8. What was
the white communities strategy? How did they respond? (59)
9. Stokely
Carmichael
10. Student
Non-Violent Coordinating Committee/SNCC
11. How did
JFK use Dr. King's imprisonment in his campaign for president in 1960?
Chapter 7: Freedom Ride
1. James
Farmer
2. CORE
3. Freedom Ride
4. What was
the action taken by the Kennedy administration and J. Edgar Hoover to the
Freedom Ride correspondence from James Farmer? (64)
5. Bull
Conner
6. How were
the white authorities complicit in the violence?
7. What was
the Faustian bargain Robert Kennedy made with Sen. Eastland?
8. What was
Kennedy's action in regards to the Freedom Ride that added another step on the
road to civil rights? (70)
9. Document
7.
Chapter 8: Battle of Ole Miss
1. James
Meredith
2. Battle of
Ole Miss
3. List the
measures the University of Mississippi used to deny Meredith entrance.
4. In the
early stages of the crisis, how did the legal system deny Meredith entrance to
Ole Miss? (72)
5. How did
Governor Barnett "stir the pot of racism" throughout the crisis?
6. How did
the state legislature conspire to deny Meredith?
7. How did
the Battle of Ole Miss bring the movement one step closer to breaking down
color barriers in the South? (76-77)
Chapter 9: Bombingham
1. George
Wallace
2. Black
Muslims
3. Malcolm X
4. Bull
Conner
5. Letter
From A Birmingham Jail
6. James
Baldwin
7. 24th
Amendment
8. How did
the Kennedy administration become more active in support of civil rights
during and
after Birmingham?
9. Documents
8 and 9
Chapter 10: March on Washington
1. What were
Hoover and the FBI's actions on King and the March on Washington?
2. How was
the March's base of support more than blacks?
3. What was
Malcolm X's criticism of the March?
4. Sixteenth Street Baptist Church
bombing.
5. Civil
Rights Act of 1964.
6. Equal
Employment Opportunity Commission
7. Great
Society
8. How did Hoover
threaten Dr. King? (95)
9. Documents
10, 11.
Chapter 11: Freedom Summer
1. Explain
the racism that existed in black voting, education, the legal system, and in
economic rights in the South. (99-101)
2. Medgar
Evers
3. Amzie
Moore
4. Aaron
Henry
5. State
Sovereignty Commission (100)
6. SNCC
(101). What were their strategies in Mississippi? How were their ways different
than Dr. King and the middle class movement?
7. Bob Moses
8. List the tactics the white power
institutions/structure used against the movement in Mississippi. (102-103)
9. How did
the FBI continue its non-support of the Movement? (103)
10. Fanny
Lou Hamer
11.
Mississippi Burning (108)
12. Documents
12, 13, 14, 15
Chapter 12: Bloody Sunday
1. Bull
Conner
2. How did the Dallas county voting
registrars office deny blacks the vote? (112)
3. How and
why did Malcolm X's views change? (115)
4. Jimmy Lee Jackson
5. Selma to
Montgomery March/Bloody Sunday
6. George
Wallace
7. What was
President Johnson's reaction to Bloody Sunday?
8. Voting Rights
Act of 1965
9. What were
the lessons of Selma? (124)
Chapter 13: Black Power
1. What were
the challenges for minorities in the inner city/urban areas?
2. Watts Riots
3. Kerner
Commission
4. Black
Power
5. Stokely
Carmichael
6. H. Rap
Brown
7. Huey Newton
8. The Black
Panthers
9. Poor
People's Campaign
10. The
Assassination of Martin Luther King
11. How did
the Vietnam War effect Lyndon Johnson's domestic reforms? (129)
12. How did
Dr. King's death effect the movement?
13. busing
14.
University of California: Regents vs. Bakke
case.
15. What
were Nixon and Reagan's policy towards domestic reforms and civil rights for
minorities?
16.
Documents 16, 17, 18, 19
