Why was the Civil Rights Movement Necessary?

Intro to the Civil Rights Movement

By Madeleine Lilley

Let's see how much you already know...

Match

Match the following vocabulary from your homework yesterday.

• The separation of people based on race, often enforced by law.

• Laws in the South that made segregation legal and kept Black and white people separate.

• Peacefully breaking unfair laws to protest injustice.

• Rights guaranteed to all people by law, like voting and equal treatment.

• The belief that some races are better than others, often leading to unfair treatment.

segregation

Jim Crow laws

Civil disobedience

civil rights

racism

• segregation

• Jim Crow laws

• Civil disobedience

• civil rights

• racism

Match

Match the following vocabulary from your homework yesterday.

• Refusing to buy or use something as a form of protest.

• Taking action to support a cause, especially for social or political change.

• The illegal killing of someone, often by a mob, usually as a form of racial terror.

• A white supremacist group that used violence to oppose civil rights for Black Americans.

• A type of protest where people sit and refuse to leave until they are heard.

boycott

activism

lynching

KKK (Ku Klux Klan)

sit-in

• boycott

• activism

• lynching

• KKK (Ku Klux Klan)

• sit-in

Multiple Choice

After the Civil War ended, African Americans were legally citizens of the United States under the 14th Amendment.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Black Americans could vote everywhere in the US after the 15th Amendment passed.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Laws in some Southern states often made it illegal for black and white people to marry each other.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Some states in the South gave Black Americans "tests" that they would have to pass in order to vote.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Martin Luther King Jr. was the only leader of the Civil Rights Movement.

• True

• False

Lesson Context

Today we will be reading about why the Civil Rights Movement was necessary. This will give some context of what happened after the Civil War and the years leading up to the Civil Rights Movement.

Read the article on the following slide with your seat partner. Then, record your answers to the questions on the sheet you got at the beginning of class.

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