7.01 The Years Leading Up to the Civil Rights Movement

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The Civil Rights Movement was a period of time

when people fought for civil rights for African Americans.

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What are civil rights?

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What is something you know about Jackie Robinson?

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As you watch this video about Jackie
Robinson, look for answers to the following
questions:

1. What sports did Jackie Robinson letter

in while at UCLA?

2. While in the army, why was Jackie

Robinson arrested?

3. What did fans and players do to Jackie

Robinson when he was playing for the
Brooklyn Dodgers?

Think about what might have happened if
Jackie Robinson had not played with the
dignity that he did and had not walked away
from the insults and threats made by fans
and the treatment he received from other
baseball players.

No, Jackie Robinson was not

the first Black man to play Major League Baseball.

Go to VerifyThis and read about the first African Americans

to play in the major leagues.

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What is something you learned from reading this article?

Multiple Choice

Why is Jackie famous?

• He's a great baseball player.

• He played four sports.

• He was very fast.

• He was the first African American in the Major Leagues in the modern era.

Multiple Choice

What does the phrase "color line" mean?

• A set of barriers that exist between racial groups

• A colored line on the baseball field

• A baseball record

• A different league based on race

Multiple Choice

When Jackie's college sports teams traveled, he ________

• couldn't ride the team bus

• couldn't stay in the same hotels as the white players

• had to sit on the bench during games and just watch the action

• had to apply light-colored makeup to his face and arms

Multiple Choice

How did Robinson respond to the other team calling him names?

• laughed

• yelled back at them

• ignored them

• quit

Multiple Choice

IN 1962, Jackie Robinson became

• the owner of the Baltimore Orioles baseball team

• a sports announcer for CBS network

• the first black player named to the Baseball Hall of Fame

• the general manager of the New York Yankees

Multiple Choice

What did Jackie do after he retired from baseball?

• He opened a sports camp

• He worked for social change

• He went back to study at UCLA

Multiple Choice

How is Jackie Robinson Day celebrated in MLB?

• There is a 42 second moment of silence

• No one is allowed to wear his number

• Every player wears the # 42 on their jersey

• Every game starts at 4:20pm.

Multiple Choice

What word describes keeping people of different races separate?

• equality

• segregation

• kindness

• commitment

Multiple Choice

Strom Thurmond was a long-serving politician from SC who began his career as a segregationist.

• True

• False

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What is something you learned about civil rights in the 1940s?