African American History and Movements U.S. History Modern America and Conflict African American History and Movements Questions How did Plessy v. Ferguson make the fight against segregation more difficult? What was the significance of the Supreme Court's ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson? How does Douglass become known to the anti-slavery world? Who was Rosa Parks, and what was her role in the challenge of Jim Crow laws? When did Martin Luther King, Jr. deliver his famous "I Have a Dream" speech? How do the views of Martin Luther King Jr. compare to those of Malcolm X? How was the Civil Rights Movement affected by the deaths of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr? Who were Exodusters? What happened in Little Rock during the summer of 1957 to help set the stage for the crisis at Central High School? What was the purpose of the Jim Crow Laws? What was the role of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the civil rights movement? What types of discrimination are prohibited by Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964? What happened in the Red Summer of 1919? Question #d9361 Why is participation in community service projects an appropriate way to honor the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.? What event was started by the actions of Rosa Parks? What happened to Medgar Evers after he helped James Meredith integrate the University of Mississippi? What event three weeks after the March on Washington showed Americans that change was needed? In what year was the first Civil Rights Act passed? What principle did Martin Luther King Jr and others learn from the political strategy of Gandhi? What established American policy was reinforced by the 1896 supreme Court ruling of Plessy v. Ferguson ? What southern city did President Eisenhower send federal troops to enforce school integration in 1957? What was the outcome of the Brown v Board of Education of Topeka Supreme Court decision in 1954? What were some of the consequences of Rosa Parks refusing to give up her bus seat to a which white person in 1955? What was the main debate in setting up colleges and universities for African Americans? What was an argument made by supporters of vocational training in African American colleges and universities? During World War II, many blacks migrated from the South to industrial cities in the North. Why did they do this? What name was given to African Americans who moved to the Great Plains? What was Blanche Bruce the first African American to do? When was the NAACP established? Why did Du Bois believe that black people should be taught history, literature, and philosophy? How is the migration pattern for African- Americans different than that of whites? Who were Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois? What different ideas did they hold? What was the relationship between the Farmers' Alliance and African Americans? Question #b9fa7 Who was the first black secretary of state? Who are some African-American performers in the Country Music Hall of Fame? What African American pressured FDR to issue an executive order which made discrimination in hiring illegal? What was the effect of the passage of Jim Crow laws in the United States in the late 19th century? What key principle of the teachings of the Nation of Islam was the opposite of the goal of the civil rights movement in the South? What was the effect of the civil rights movement on the economic status of African Americans by 1975? What were the effects of legal segregation? How are the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the 15th Amendment similar? What was the effect of Jim Crow laws? What were the Jim Crow laws? Question #ef1b7 What occurred in Little Rock, Arkansas, after the Supreme Court declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional in Brown v Board of? What was the Great Migration? What does Dr. King want his children to be judged by? Under President Johnson's Reconstruction plan who received amnesty? Did African Americans have equal rights? Was slavery officially outlawed? What tactic did Senators use to try block the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for more than two months? Which group used the legal system to challenge racial discrimination? What precipitated the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955? What were laws mean to keep black people and white people segregated known as? What was nonviolent civil disobedience? Why was this approach so successful? In Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, what did the Supreme Court say about separate schools for whites and African Americans? Question #ebc54 Question #14c83 Question #0490c What method of protest did civil rights leaders use in Greensboro, N.C? What landmark Supreme Court case finally overturned the ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson? What did Freedom Summer try to accomplish? How did the Black Power movement impact the fight for civil rights? What African-American farmer and surveyor helped design the city of Washington D.C? What did the Freedom Riders achieve? Why did Governor Wallace resist enrolling African Americans in the University of Alabama? Which amendment gave African-Americans citizenship and equal protection under the law? Why is the Civil Rights Act of 1964 an important act of legislature? What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 provide? How did the concept of black power differ from Martin Luther King, Jr.'s approach to civil rights? Who were some of the African American poets of the Harlem Renaissance? What did African Americans seek to escape when they moved to the North in the 1920's? What was the significance of the use of Federal marshals to protect African-American students in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957? The Sharpeville demonstration of 1960 resulted in what? What was the focus of the Freedom Summer? Why might black musicians have been commercially less successful than white musicians in the 1950s? When did Congress adopted the first in a series of laws designed to protect civil rights? A landlord refuses to rent an apartment to an African American based on race, even though there are vacancies. What is this an example of? Why were segregated schools morally wrong? Who had become a symbol of the black power movement sweeping the nation by the early 1960s? Why was Brown v. Board of Education important to people of color? In the case Plessy v. Ferguson, what did the Supreme Court upheld? What was the main goal of protestors at the 1963 March on Washington? How did African Americans respond to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in April 1968? What are the plaintiffs seeking for their children in Brown v. Board of Education? What did Jim Crow laws mandate? Modern America and Conflict View all chapters America and World War I America and World War II The Cold War and the Space Race Vietnam War Korean War Social Movements in America African American History and Movements Prev