African American Notes Module

African American Civil Rights Notes Module

Due by Friday, March 28 - DOL on Friday, March 28

1. Complete your notes using the ThingLink page on the next slide.

2. Click on the red stars for your notes.

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4. Complete the activities after the notes.

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Match the following to the correct description.

• Formed CORE and organized freedom rides.

• Leader of the Houston NAACP and show Sweatt for Sweatt v. Painter

• President who passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964

• The first African American elected to the TX Senate after Reconstruction and the first southern African American woman elected to the US House.

• African American Civil Rights Organization

James Farmer Jr.

Lulu Belle Madison White

Lyndon B. Johnson

Barbara Jordan

NAACP

• James Farmer Jr.

• Lulu Belle Madison White

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• Barbara Jordan

• NAACP

Multiple Choice

Texas public schools were segregated until the U.S. Supreme Court rules in which of the following cases?

• Sweatt v. Painter

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Hernandez v. State of Texas

• Texas v. Johnson

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Organization that fights for African-American rights.

• NAACP
• LULAC
• CORE
• James L. Farmer Jr.

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President who passed the Civil RIghts Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

• Lyndon B. Johnson
• James Farmer, Jr.
• Hector P. Garcia
• Barbara Jordan

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African-American civil rights advocate who was a member of the Wiley College Debate Team, helped start CORE, and organized Freedom Rides

• Lyndon B. Johnson
• Barbara Jordan
• James Farmer, Jr.
• Hector P. Garcia

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Led the Houston NAACP and chose Sweatt for Sweatt v. Painter

• Lulu Belle Madison White
• Barbara Jordan
• James Farmer, Jr.
• Lyndon B. Johnson

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First African American elected to the Texas Senate after Reconstruction; First Southern African American woman in the U.S. House of Representatives.

• Barbara Jordan
• Jane McCallum
• Lulu Belle Madison White
• Kay Bailey Hutchison

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Aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote as guaranteed under the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

• Voting Rights Act of 1965
• Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Hernandez v. State of Texas
• Chicano Movement

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Prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Provisions of this act forbade discrimination on the basis of sex, as well as, race in hiring, promoting, and firing.

• Voting Rights Act of 1965
• Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Hernandez v. State of Texas
• Chicano Movement

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Civil Rights Movement

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Nonviolent resistance to Jim Crow Laws

Developed the Freedom Rides

Established C.O.R.E. (Congress of Racial Equality)

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