Book Questions
Civil Rights
Please use the book the answer the following questions.
Desegregating American Society
1) Jim Crow Laws created separate social arrangements that effect Af. Am. in what 3 ways?
economically- job opportunites
Socially- only certain places would be acceptable for blacks to enter
politically- voting was not a right anymore
2) What examples does the book list to support this statement, “everywhere I go in the south the Negro is forced to choose between his hide and his soul”?
People being killed for no apparant, reason like that 14 year old boy who was lynched for looking at a white woman
3) Who were Wendell Willkie and Gunnar Myrdal and what effect did they have.?
speakers for civil rights, added attention to the cause as they were white
4) How did WWII effect the attitudes of Af. Am.?
"whiteys war" was the name as segregation existed there as well
5) Who and what was the NAACP?
national association for the advancement of colored peoples, group of lawyers legally battling for desegregation
6) Rosa Parks role in the Civil Rts movement?
not giving up a bus seat
7) Who was Dr. King?
Baptist preacher who fought for civil rights
8) What was the “To Secure These Rights” report?
done by Eisenhower after hearing of black veterens being lynched
9) Brown v. Board of Edu
separate was not equal in schools
10) “Declaration of Constitutional Principles”
Southern Manifesto written and signed by 99 southern congressmen to oppose Brown v Board
11) Ike and civil rits
largely indifferent to the issue but carried out supreme courts orders
12) Little Rock Nine
nine kids sent to little rock high for higher education
13) Civil Rights Act
1967- prevented segregation in public places, gave more power to enforce de segregation in schools, sent voting registrars to the south
14) SCLC
Southern Christian Leadership Conference- founded by mlk to use churches of south
15) Sit ins
peaceful demonstrations
16) SNCC
Student National Coordinating Comittee
The Struggle for Civil rights
17) Kennedy –“with a stroke of a pen”
Promised desegregation with stroke of a pen
18) Freedom rides
demonstrators taking interstate busses to petition
19) Kennedy & MLK
worked together
20) Voter Edu project
freedom summer, got allot of people voting
21) James Meredith
Air force veteren who applied to Mississippi University, Kennedy sent a total of 3400 to enroll him
22) MLK in Birmingham
MLK worked to desegregate this super segregated city, marching the people to montgomery
23) MLK march to Washington
200 thousand people
Battling for Black Rights
24) Civil rights Act 1964
prevented segregation in public places, increased government power to de-segregate schools and other public places and created the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to eliminate discrimination in hiring
25) Prevent af. Am. voting
poll tax, literacy test, publicizing of voters names
26) 24th amendment
no poll tax
27) MLK in Selma
march to montgomery
28) Voting Rights act 1965
no literacy test
29) Watts Riot
in los angeles
30) Malcolm X
radical black leader
31) Black Panther Party
violence in Oakland area
32) “burn, Baby burn”
term used by aggressive blacks
33) Not just a “southern” question.
de segregation was now in the north and west as well
34) Death of MLK
assassinaton
Please use the book the answer the following questions.
Desegregating American Society
1) Jim Crow Laws created separate social arrangements that effect Af. Am. in what 3 ways?
economically- job opportunites
Socially- only certain places would be acceptable for blacks to enter
politically- voting was not a right anymore
2) What examples does the book list to support this statement, “everywhere I go in the south the Negro is forced to choose between his hide and his soul”?
People being killed for no apparant, reason like that 14 year old boy who was lynched for looking at a white woman
3) Who were Wendell Willkie and Gunnar Myrdal and what effect did they have.?
speakers for civil rights, added attention to the cause as they were white
4) How did WWII effect the attitudes of Af. Am.?
"whiteys war" was the name as segregation existed there as well
5) Who and what was the NAACP?
national association for the advancement of colored peoples, group of lawyers legally battling for desegregation
6) Rosa Parks role in the Civil Rts movement?
not giving up a bus seat
7) Who was Dr. King?
Baptist preacher who fought for civil rights
8) What was the “To Secure These Rights” report?
done by Eisenhower after hearing of black veterens being lynched
9) Brown v. Board of Edu
separate was not equal in schools
10) “Declaration of Constitutional Principles”
Southern Manifesto written and signed by 99 southern congressmen to oppose Brown v Board
11) Ike and civil rits
largely indifferent to the issue but carried out supreme courts orders
12) Little Rock Nine
nine kids sent to little rock high for higher education
13) Civil Rights Act
1967- prevented segregation in public places, gave more power to enforce de segregation in schools, sent voting registrars to the south
14) SCLC
Southern Christian Leadership Conference- founded by mlk to use churches of south
15) Sit ins
peaceful demonstrations
16) SNCC
Student National Coordinating Comittee
The Struggle for Civil rights
17) Kennedy –“with a stroke of a pen”
Promised desegregation with stroke of a pen
18) Freedom rides
demonstrators taking interstate busses to petition
19) Kennedy & MLK
worked together
20) Voter Edu project
freedom summer, got allot of people voting
21) James Meredith
Air force veteren who applied to Mississippi University, Kennedy sent a total of 3400 to enroll him
22) MLK in Birmingham
MLK worked to desegregate this super segregated city, marching the people to montgomery
23) MLK march to Washington
200 thousand people
Battling for Black Rights
24) Civil rights Act 1964
prevented segregation in public places, increased government power to de-segregate schools and other public places and created the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to eliminate discrimination in hiring
25) Prevent af. Am. voting
poll tax, literacy test, publicizing of voters names
26) 24th amendment
no poll tax
27) MLK in Selma
march to montgomery
28) Voting Rights act 1965
no literacy test
29) Watts Riot
in los angeles
30) Malcolm X
radical black leader
31) Black Panther Party
violence in Oakland area
32) “burn, Baby burn”
term used by aggressive blacks
33) Not just a “southern” question.
de segregation was now in the north and west as well
34) Death of MLK
assassinaton