Civil Rights

Review Questions

pages 699-701

1. Do you think the Brown v Board of Education case was a reawakening of Reconstruction?

2. What were the primary goals of Martin Luther King? How did Martin Luther King justify breaking the law? Why did the Black Civil Rights movement center around the churches? Who did King follow the direction of in his passive resistance and civil disobedience? (You may want to revisit pages 660-663 in chapter 26 and your lecture notes on this question.)

3. Who was a part of The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and what did they do?

4. Who was James Meredith and how does he become a student at the University of Mississippi? What happens in Birmingham, Alabama? What is President Kennedy’s reaction to events in the south?

5. How did Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael, Huey Newton and Black Panthers challenge the leadership of Martin Luther King? What happen in Northern cities in the mid-1960's? (You may want to revisit pages 705-707 in chapter 28 for this question.)

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6. What was Richard Nixon’s "Southern Strategy" ? Where does Richard Nixon stand on desegregation and the federal government?

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7. What factors gave rise to the women’s movement? What were the major goals of the movement? Why did some women opposed the women’s movement?

8. Describe the status of Hispanic Americans in the 1960s and 70s? What did Cesar Chavez do? What did the Hispanic movement accomplish?

9. What were the goals and accomplishments of the American Indian protest movement? What is AIM?

10. What is going on with the environmental movement?