1. The Civil Rights Movement

2. 1.Why did and did not Eisenhower promote civil rights during his presidency? 1.Soviet Propaganda 2.Doubts 1.State and Local Action 2.Effectiveness of National Laws 2.What were conditions like for minorities, especially in the south, after WWII? 1.Schools 1.Segregation 2.Plessey v. Ferguson 2.Voting 1.Black Codes or Jim Crow Laws 3.Housing 4.Jobs 3.What was the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, and what impact did it have on American Schools? 1.NAACP 2.Eisenhower’s Response 3.Chief Justice Earl Warren 4.Sociological and Psychological Findings 5.With all deliberate speed 6.Massive Resistance 1.KKK 2.Southern Manifesto 4.What was the Montgomery Bus Boycott and how did it help spark the civil rights movement? 1.Rosa Parks 2.Martin Luther King Jr. 3.Montgomery Bus Boycott 4.Violent Reaction 5.Non-Violent Disobedience 6.Supreme Court Intervenes

3. 5.How was the desegregation of Little Rock’s Central High School a significant victory for the civil rights movement? 5.Orval Faubus and National Guard 5.Little Rock Nine 6.Eisenhower and Federal Troops 5.Closing of Central high School 6.Deep South Resisted desegregation 6.How did Sit-Ins and Freedom Riders promote civil rights in the Deep South? 5.The Greensboro Four 5.Woolworths 6.Sit-In 7.Role of Young Activists 8.Gained Momentum and Woolworths Reaction 6.Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) 5.Violent Counter Reaction 7.Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) 5.James Farmer 6.Freedom Riders 7.Fire Bombed Bus, Beatings and Arrests 8.Kennedy Response 9.Bobby Kennedy and the Federal Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) 10.Demonstrated young African Americans desire for freedom and equality 7.How did Martin Luther King Jr. become the leader of the Civil Rights Movement? 5.James Meredith and University of Mississippi 6.George Wallace and University of Alabama 7.Letter From Birmingham city Jail 5.Southern Violent Resistance 6.Non-Violent Response 7.Nobel Peace Price 8.March on Washington DC 5.I Have a Dream Speech 9.Birmingham Church Bombing 10.James Earl Ray in 1968

4. 8.What was the Freedom Summer and how did it change the nations notions of racism and injustice in the south? 8.Voting Rights in Mississippi 9.Freedom Summer 8.Robert Moses 9.White College Kids 10.Freedom Schools 11.Voter Registration 10.James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner 8.Local officials and KKK involvement 9.Mr. X 10.Search for Bodies 11.How they died 11.Impact of Killings on Americans View of Civil Rights 8.Televisions Role on American Conscious 9.Civil Rights Act (Passed Before) 10.Voting Rights Act (Passed After)