African American History and Movements

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• How did Plessy v. Ferguson make the fight against segregation more difficult?
• What was the significance of the Supreme Court's ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson?
• How does Douglass become known to the anti-slavery world?
• Who was Rosa Parks, and what was her role in the challenge of Jim Crow laws?
• When did Martin Luther King, Jr. deliver his famous "I Have a Dream" speech?
• How do the views of Martin Luther King Jr. compare to those of Malcolm X?
• How was the Civil Rights Movement affected by the deaths of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr?
• Who were Exodusters?
• What happened in Little Rock during the summer of 1957 to help set the stage for the crisis at Central High School?
• What was the purpose of the Jim Crow Laws?
• What was the role of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the civil rights movement?
• What types of discrimination are prohibited by Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
• What happened in the Red Summer of 1919?
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• Why is participation in community service projects an appropriate way to honor the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.?
• What event was started by the actions of Rosa Parks?
• What happened to Medgar Evers after he helped James Meredith integrate the University of Mississippi?
• What event three weeks after the March on Washington showed Americans that change was needed?
• In what year was the first Civil Rights Act passed?
• What principle did Martin Luther King Jr and others learn from the political strategy of Gandhi?
• What established American policy was reinforced by the 1896 supreme Court ruling of Plessy v. Ferguson ?
• What southern city did President Eisenhower send federal troops to enforce school integration in 1957?
• What was the outcome of the Brown v Board of Education of Topeka Supreme Court decision in 1954?
• What were some of the consequences of Rosa Parks refusing to give up her bus seat to a which white person in 1955?
• What was the main debate in setting up colleges and universities for African Americans?
• What was an argument made by supporters of vocational training in African American colleges and universities?
• During World War II, many blacks migrated from the South to industrial cities in the North. Why did they do this?
• What name was given to African Americans who moved to the Great Plains?
• What was Blanche Bruce the first African American to do?
• When was the NAACP established?
• Why did Du Bois believe that black people should be taught history, literature, and philosophy?
• How is the migration pattern for African- Americans different than that of whites?
• Who were Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois? What different ideas did they hold?
• What was the relationship between the Farmers' Alliance and African Americans?
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• Who was the first black secretary of state?
• Who are some African-American performers in the Country Music Hall of Fame?
• What African American pressured FDR to issue an executive order which made discrimination in hiring illegal?
• What was the effect of the passage of Jim Crow laws in the United States in the late 19th century?
• What key principle of the teachings of the Nation of Islam was the opposite of the goal of the civil rights movement in the South?
• What was the effect of the civil rights movement on the economic status of African Americans by 1975?
• What were the effects of legal segregation?
• How are the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the 15th Amendment similar?
• What was the effect of Jim Crow laws?
• What were the Jim Crow laws?
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• What occurred in Little Rock, Arkansas, after the Supreme Court declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional in Brown v Board of?
• What was the Great Migration?
• What does Dr. King want his children to be judged by?
• Under President Johnson's Reconstruction plan who received amnesty? Did African Americans have equal rights? Was slavery officially outlawed?
• What tactic did Senators use to try block the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for more than two months?
• Which group used the legal system to challenge racial discrimination?
• What precipitated the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955?
• What were laws mean to keep black people and white people segregated known as?
• What was nonviolent civil disobedience? Why was this approach so successful?
• In Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, what did the Supreme Court say about separate schools for whites and African Americans?
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• What method of protest did civil rights leaders use in Greensboro, N.C?
• What landmark Supreme Court case finally overturned the ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson?
• What did Freedom Summer try to accomplish?
• How did the Black Power movement impact the fight for civil rights?
• What African-American farmer and surveyor helped design the city of Washington D.C?
• What did the Freedom Riders achieve?
• Why did Governor Wallace resist enrolling African Americans in the University of Alabama?
• Which amendment gave African-Americans citizenship and equal protection under the law?
• Why is the Civil Rights Act of 1964 an important act of legislature?
• What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 provide?
• How did the concept of black power differ from Martin Luther King, Jr.'s approach to civil rights?
• Who were some of the African American poets of the Harlem Renaissance?
• What did African Americans seek to escape when they moved to the North in the 1920's?
• What was the significance of the use of Federal marshals to protect African-American students in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957?
• The Sharpeville demonstration of 1960 resulted in what?
• What was the focus of the Freedom Summer?
• Why might black musicians have been commercially less successful than white musicians in the 1950s?
• When did Congress adopted the first in a series of laws designed to protect civil rights?
• A landlord refuses to rent an apartment to an African American based on race, even though there are vacancies. What is this an example of?
• Why were segregated schools morally wrong?
• Who had become a symbol of the black power movement sweeping the nation by the early 1960s?
• Why was Brown v. Board of Education important to people of color?
• In the case Plessy v. Ferguson, what did the Supreme Court upheld?
• What was the main goal of protestors at the 1963 March on Washington?
• How did African Americans respond to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in April 1968?
• What are the plaintiffs seeking for their children in Brown v. Board of Education?
• What did Jim Crow laws mandate?