THE STRUGGLE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS
Section 1, Chapter 21
I. The Struggle began with non-violent protests
A. Jim Crow laws made African American's second class
citizens
1. Jim Crow was a
term used...
2. These laws
segregated blacks almost....
*separate...
*black residents...
*separate...
*little Emmet Till
3.
Martin Luther King Jr. was fed the desire to resist these laws by his....
B. African Americans used passive
resistance to fight segregation
1.
Rosa Parks began a new phase in the African struggle...
2. Rosa refused to give her seat on a bus....
3. African American's everywhere boycotted....
4. The boycott continued for more than....
5. African American's had won....
C. Black activism
originated during World War II
1. Major underlying social changes....
2. A. Phillip Randolph's threatened march on Washington D.C. to get
FDR
to....
3. World War II reminded blacks that they were still....
4. White Southerners sought to....
5. Eventually the fight against Communism....
D. Plessy vs.
Ferguson is reversed
*Plessy vs. Ferguson was when...
1. On May 17, 1954, the NAACP won its most important victory when
2. National Guards aided in.....
E.
King emphasized voting rights
1. King and other black ministers formed the...
2. In April he told 25,000 people that.......
3. In 1957, Congress passed the first....
Links:
The Jim Crow Laws-- http://www.nps.gov/malu/documents/jim_crow_laws.htm
The Murder of Emmet Till-- http://www.heroism.org/class/1950/heroes/till.htm
Martin Luther King Jr.-- http://www.thekingcenter.org/
Rosa Parks-- http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/par0pro-1
The Little Rock Nine-- http://pbskids.org/wayback/civilrights/features_school.html
Governor Orval Faubus-- http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAfaubus.htm