Civil Rights Era

  • Text book: Ch 29 pg. 810-828

     

    Key questions:

    Why did African Americans strive for equality?

    What forms of passive resistance were used to help achieve equality?

    What has changed since the Civil Rights Era for minority groups?

     

              1. Discrimination

    2. Passive Resistance

    3.      Civil Rights

    4.      Supreme Court

    5.      Jim Crow Laws

    6.      Boycott

    7.      Segregation

    8.      NAACP

    9.      Brown vs. Board p. 814

    10. Sit-in  p. 817

    11. Freedom Ride p. 818

    12. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. p. 815

    13. Malcom X p. 823

    14. Rosa Parks  p. 813

    15. Thurgood Marshall p. 814

    16.  Montgomery Bus Boycott p.815

    17. Civil Rights Act of 1964 p. 820

    18. Voting Rights Act of 1965 p. 821

    19. March on Washington p. 820

    20. Affirmative Action

    21. SNCC

    22. SCLC