Chapter 29 Objectives- Civil Rights (1954-1968)
U.S. History- Moberg
1954
1955
Brown v. Board Montgomery
of Education
bus boycott
decision orders begins.
the
desegregation
of public
schools.
1956
Dwight D.
Eisenhower
is reelected.
1957
School
desegregation
crisis occurs in
Little Rock,
Arkansas.
1959
Fidel
Castro
assumes
power
in Cuba.
1960
John F.
Kennedy is
elected
president.
1962
South
African
civil rights
leader
Nelson
Mandela is
imprisoned.
1963
Lyndon B.
Johnson
becomes
president
upon John
F. Kennedy’s
assasination.
1964
Lyndon
B.
Johnson
is elected
president.
Congress
passes
the Civil
Rights
Act.
1967
Race
riots
occur
in
major
U.S.
cities.
1968
Richard M.
Nixon is
elected
president.
1969
U.S.
astronauts
walk on
the moon.
Martin
Luther King,
Jr., is
assassinated.
Tet offensive
begins in
Vietnam.
Section One: Activism and a series of Supreme Court decisions advanced equal rights for African Americans in the 1950s and 1960s.
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Explain how legalized segregation deprived African Americans of their rights as citizens.
Summarize civil rights legal activity and the response to the Plessy and Brown cases.
Trace Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s civil rights activities, beginning with the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Describe the expansion of the civil rights movement.
Section Two: Civil rights activists broke through racial barriers. Their activism prompted landmark legislation.
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2.
3.
4.
Identify the goal of the freedom riders.
Explain how civil rights activism forced President Kennedy to act against segregation.
State the motives of the 1963 March on Washington.
Describe the tactics used by civil rights organizations to secure passage of the Voting Rights Act.
Section Three: Disagreements among civil rights groups and the rise of black nationalism created a violent period in the fight for civil rights.
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2.
3.
4.
Compare segregation in the North with segregation in the South.
Identify the leaders who shaped the Black Power movement.
Describe the reaction to the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Summarize the accomplishments of the civil rights movement.
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1. Trace (via a timeline) the evolution of civil rights.