Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Civil Rights Movement Primary Sources

All of these documents are found on the PBS Eyes on the Prize  website at:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eyesontheprize/sources/index.html

The Emmitt Till Case





http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eyesontheprize/sources/ps_schools.html








http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eyesontheprize/sources/ps_bakke.html

Monday, August 17, 2015

Zinn: "Or Does It Explode?"

Zinn: "Or Does It Explode?"
1. What do the poems in the chapter's introductory pages reveal about the black experience in the United States preceding the Civil Rights Movement? What were the conditions for blacks in the US?
2. Discuss the significance of the Brown vs. The Board of Education Supreme Court decision in 1954. How long did it take to make the changes the decision ruled?
3. Discuss the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955.
4.  Discuss the lunch counter sit-ins that began in Greensboro, N.C in 1960. What were the results?
5. Birmingham Sunday, 1963
6. James Cheney, Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman
7. 1965 Voting Rights Act.
8 . What was Malcolm X's interpretation of the lead up to the March on Washington?
9. Why did Martin Luther King Jr. speak out against the Vietnam War in 1968?

10. What points does Zinn make regarding the economics of racism in America?

Civil Rights Book Questions

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