Civil Rights Movement DBQ

Multiple Choice

What is the purpose of this DBQ?

• To find out what DBQ means

• To understand how different strategies led to different outcomes in the Civil Rights Movement

• To learn about the Civil War

• None of the above

Multiple Choice

What US Supreme Court case led to this headline?

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Miranda vs. Arizona

• Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

• All of the above

Multiple Choice

What method was used to ban segregation from public schools?

• suing and using the court system

• vandalizing the segregated schools

• threatening a walkout of segregated schools

• None of the above

Multiple Choice

Why did the customers get food and drinks dumped on them?

• They told a bad joke (Roldan joke)?

• They were protesting against segregationin restaurants

• They were followed from a protest rally

• The food wasn't good to eat anymore

Multiple Choice

Where did these lunch counter sit-ins begin?

• Kansas

• Mississippi

• Georgia

• North Carolina

Multiple Choice

Where did the Black Panthers form?

• Los Angeles

• Oakland

• New York

• Chicago

Multiple Choice

What was the purpose of the Black Panthers forming?

• To seek revenge against white racists

• To prevent police brutality against

  young black males

• To feed the hungry

• All of the above

Open Ended

Why did Martin Luther King Jr. believe that African Americans had been oppressed when he wrote this letter?

Open Ended

What did MLK suggest African-Americans do to release their pent-up frustrations and resentments?

Multiple Choice

What approach did MLK suggest African Americans use to "get rid of their discontent?"

• non-violent methods

• violence

• None of the above

• All of the above