Date Class - Campbell County Schools
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Name _______________________________________ Date _________________ Class ___________ Study Guide – Civil Rights Movement 1. What was the “separate-but-equal” doctrine? _______________________________________________________________________________________ 2. What was de facto segregation? _______________________________________________________________________________________ 3. What was the initial goal of the NAACP? _______________________________________________________________________________________ 4. What was CORE? How did they operate? _______________________________________________________________________________________ 5. Describe the Supreme Court decision of Brown vs. Board of Education. _______________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________ 6. Who was Thurgood Marshall? _______________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________ 7. What was the Montgomery Bus Boycott? _______________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________ 8. Who was Rosa Parks? What was her story? _______________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________ 9. Who was Martin Luther King, Jr.? _______________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________ 10. Describe Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech. _______________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________ 11. How did African American churches play a role in the Civil Rights Movement? _______________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________ 12. How did Eisenhower deal with Civil Rights? _______________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________ 13. Describe the integration of Little Rock’s Central High School. _______________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________ 14. Describe the Civil Rights Act of 1957. _______________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________ 15. Who is Jesse Jackson? _______________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________ 16. What role did SNCC play in the Civil Rights Movement? _______________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________ 17. Who were the Freedom Riders? What happened to them in Anniston, AL? _______________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________ 18. What did JFK do to help the Civil Rights Movement? _______________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________ 19. What is James Meredith known for? _______________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________ 20. What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 do? _______________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________ 21. What happened at the March on Washington? _______________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________ 22. What is a filibuster? _______________________________________________________________________________________ 23. What is cloture? _______________________________________________________________________________________ 24. What is the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission? _______________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________ 25. What did the 24th Amendment to the Constitution do? _______________________________________________________________________________________ 26. What did the Voting Rights Act of 1965 do? _______________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________ 27. Describe the Watts Riot. _______________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________ 28. What did the Kerner Commission do? _______________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________ 29. Describe the shift to economic rights. _______________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________ 30. What was the “Black Power” movement? _______________________________________________________________________________________ 31. What ideas did Black Power stress? _______________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________ 32. Who was Malcolm X? What was his background and what was he known for? _______________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________ 33. Who were the Black Panthers and what did they do? _______________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________ 34. Describe the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. _______________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________ 35. What did the Civil Rights Act of 1968 do? _______________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________
