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SSUSH22 The student will identify dimensions of the Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1970.
a. Explain the importance of President Truman’s order to integrate the U.S. military and the federal
government.
b. Identify Jackie Robinson and the integration of baseball.
c. Explain Brown v. Board of Education and efforts to resist the decision.
d. Describe the significance of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail and his I
Have a Dream Speech.
e. Describe the causes and consequences of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act
of 1965.
1. Why was Truman’s order to integrate the military so important?
2. Who was Jackie Robinson?
3. What did the Supreme Court rule in Brown v. Board of Education?
4. What were some of the ways people and politicians resisted integration of schools?
5. What was Martin Luther King Jr.’s primary tactics during the Civil Rights Movement?
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6. What was the central theme of MLK’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”?
7. What was the central theme of MLK’s “I Have a Dream” speech? On what occasion was the
speech given?
8. What were the major provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
9. What were the major provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965?