Name: ________________________________ Per: ____
American Cultures 6.0, Mr. Gutsche
Chapter 28, Section 2 Notes: “No Easy Road to Freedom, 1957-1962”
What is the NAACP and how did they primarily fight for equality?
What is CORE and what tactics / approaches did this organization use to promote equality?
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
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What is the SCLC?
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What influence did Walter Rauschenbusch and Mohandas Gandhi have on King on the tactics of
SCLC?
Explain “Sit-Ins” and this tactic’s impact on the Civil Rights Movement. What did these “sit-ins” achieve?
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
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What was SNCC?
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How was it different from other Civil Rights organizations at the time (such as CORE, NAACP, SCLC, etc)?
The Election of 1960 and Civil Rights:
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What were JFK’s and Nixon’s responses to Civil Rights during the elections?
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What impact did Civil Rights have on the election of 1960?
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What did Kennedy do for Civil Rights?
Freedom Rides
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What were the Freedom Rides and what were the Freedom Riders goals?
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What was the outcome of the Freedom Rides?
Name: ________________________________ Per: ____
American Cultures 6.0, Mr. Gutsche
Chapter 28, Section 2 Notes: “No Easy Road to Freedom, 1957-1962”
Albany Movement
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What was the Albany Movement?
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What limits of protests did it expose? (Ultimately, why did the movement fail?)
Summarizing Questions about Civil Rights during 1957 – 1962:
1.
As one of the early civil rights protest organizations, the Congress of Racial Equality primarily pursued its goals
through
A) peaceful and non-violent protests.
B) the United States Federal Court system.
C) the organization of church groups and ministers.
D) the organization of African American college students.
2.
The actions related to the Greensboro, Nashville and Atlanta sit-ins established what phase in civil rights tactics?
A) Activism that challenged the laws and practices denying civil rights.
B) Working through the Congress and state legislatures for a legal solution.
C) Legal challenges through the federal court system.
D) Calculated hostile and often violent resistance
3.
The organization most responsible for the legal challenges against various racial inequalities in American society was
the
A) Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee.
B) Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
C) Congress for Racial Equality.
D) National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
4.
The main strategies used by the SCLC were boycotts and
A) non-violent protest.
B) legal challenges through the state and federal courts.
C) militant confrontation, often aggressive and violent.
D) working through the traditional political process.
5.
The SNCC was established to represent the civil rights concerns of
A) elderly, educated, middle-class African Americans.
B) urban poor African Americans.
C) members of the African American religious community.
D) African American college students.
6.
All of the following were civil rights actions or laws passed during the Kennedy Administration EXCEPT:
A) The creation of a Civil Rights Division within the Justice Department.
B) African American appointments to the Federal Court system.
C) “Minimum legislation, maximum executive action”
D) The passage of an extensive, comprehensive Civil Rights Voting Bill
7.
The Freedom Riders
A) brought their civil rights message to Northern cities.
B) supported Rosa Parks and challenged Montgomery, Alabama’s busing laws.
C) challenged the practice of segregation in interstate busing.
D) received little attention from the Kennedy Administration.