Civil Rights Movement

Civil Rights Movement

Today we will identify the key people and events associated with the Civil Rights Movement.

Topic: Civil Rights Movement

Make this graphic organizer in your Social Studies Notebook.

3 minutes

In the first column write down what you already know about the Civil Rights Movement.

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What do you already know about the Civil Rights Movement?

In the second column of the chart write at least 2 questions you have about the Civil Rights Movement.

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What questions do you have about the Civil Rights Movement?

As you watch the video write down a least 3 facts you want to remember in the third column.

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Write down one fact you want to remember about the Civil Rights Movement.

Multiple Choice

The African American Civil Right Movement was about having universal _______for all people.

• laws

• constitutions

• rights

• segregation

Multiple Choice

What was the name of the African American student who was barred from attending school closer to home?

• Rosa Parks

• Linda Brown

• Dr. Martin Luther King

• Jo Ann Robinson

Multiple Choice

In what state did Rosa Parks refuse to give up her seat to a white passenger?

• Montgomery, Alabama

• Dallas, Texas

• Jackson, Mississippi

• New Orleans, Louisiana

Multiple Choice

Which word means to stop buying or using a product or service?

• purchase

• boycott

• segregation

• movement

Multiple Choice

In what year did the Supreme court ban segregation buses?

• 1954

• 2010

• 1956

• 1963

Read the article make note of important information.

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In the 1950s the Supreme Court ruled that

of schools was illegal.

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He worked with Ida B. Wells to found the NAACP.

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He freed the slaves with the Emancipation Proclamation.

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Laws that kept black seperated from whites.

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People who thought slavery was morally wrong.

Read the article and make note of important information.

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What year was the Fair Housing Act outlawing discrimination in selling or renting houses put in place?

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What year did President Lyndon Johnson pass the Civil Rights Act outlawing segregation and the Jim Crow Laws of the south?

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In what year was Rosa Parks arrested for refusing to relinquish her seat to a white passenger?

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In what year was the Voting Rights Act, stating that citizens could not be denied the right to vote based on race pass?

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Why the African American Civil Rights Movement an important part of American History?