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?