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The Civil Rights Movement
An Overview
Extra Credit Value 10 points
You will be using a PowerPoint presentation to learn about important events in the Civil Rights Movement
1. Answer the questions provided as you view the show. You only need to click on hyperlinks that are
specified within the questions.
2. Use the following address http://static.hcrhs.k12.nj.us/gems/americanstudies/eventscivilrightsmove.ppt
The Civil Rights Movement
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On the Title Page of the PowerPoint, click 10 times to display the 10 titles/links. At the end of each section, the
slide will have an action button with a picture of a house on it. Click on this to return to the homepage to choose
another section. You can answer the questions in any order that you prefer but all questions must be answered and
they must be ON A SEPARTE PIECE OF PAPER! Label each section and then number each question. (Any
answers handed on this handout will be given a zero.)
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Harlem Renaissance
In the picture of the grocery store in Harlem, how does the store name represent the growing selfidentity of the African American Middle Class?
How did African American artist and writers help support the push for civil rights?
Why would the development of an African American Middle Class be important to the future of the
civil rights movement? (This answer is not directly stated in the text. You must provide your own
opinion and support it.)
What were the major themes or impacts of Hughes, Hurston, and Smith & Ellington? (Be sure to
address each of these people/pairs.)
What factors brought an “end” to the Harlem Renaissance?
Segregation
Where did the term “Jim Crow” originate?
Besides showing that separate entrances existed for African Americans, what else does the photograph
of the theater in Belzoni, Mississippi imply? (Think about the inside.)
What is disenfranchisement?
What amendment guarantees the right to vote to African American men?
How were African Americans “legally” denied the right to vote?
How were conditions similar & different in the North and South?
Why were most immigrants more successful than African Americans in finding job opportunities?
What did Plessey V. Ferguson establish?
What were the goals of the Congress on Racial Equality, and the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People? (Address each organization!)
School Desegregation
Who was the leader of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and what did the
organization do?
Refer to the campaign poster entitled "Desegregate the Schools." What political group is using
desegregation as a platform?
What did Brown V. Board of Education undo and how did white southerners resist the court order?
Click on the link Little Rock, Arkansas. Why is September 24, 1957, a landmark day in the Civil
Rights Movement. (Don't just tell me what happened. Explain why it is significant on a national
level.)
How did school districts overcome "geographic" segregation in the 1970s?
What impact did desegregation have on the KKK? What tactics did the KKK use and why were so
few people, especially northerners, unaware of their activities?
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
What did Rosa Parks do that led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott? What factors made it so successful
so quickly?
What finally ended the boycott with a victory for African Americans?
How did the boycott impact Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.? What group did he become leader of?
What were the goals and tactics of the Southern Christian Leadership Council?
Sit-Ins
Explain how a "sit-in" was used as a form of protest and explain why you think they were often
successful.
Click on the link Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Who were some famous African
American leaders that came from this group?
According to SNCC leader Elia Baker, what should civil rights activities be based on? What was the
result of this?
Freedom Riders
What did the Freedom Riders do? What were they "testing?"
How were they received in the Deep South? Be specific.
What was the most important result of the Freedom Rides?
Desegregating Southern Universities
Draw a "timeline" showing the order of events in the desegregation of the University of Mississippi.
(You do not need actual dates, jus the correct order.)
What was the end result of President Kennedy getting involved in the desegregation of Southern
Universities?
The March on Washington
What was the purpose of the March on Washington? What were the circumstances under which a
previous march was planned? What was the result of that threatened march in 1941? (Be specific - in
other words, what was the actual act passed?)
What famous speech was given during the protest in Washington? Who gave it?
Was the March on Washington successful? How do you know this?
Voter Registration
Why did many African American leaders and groups feel that voter registration was an important area
for the success of the Civil Rights Movement?
How did white Southerners react to the voter registration drives? Provide two specific examples.
How did the actions of white Southerners backfire on them?
Describe the events of Bloody Sunday, including why African Americans were there.
What did the Voters Rights Act of 1965 do?
The End of the Movement
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In your opinion, is the Civil Rights Movement over? Why or why not?