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Assignment:
Timeline of The Civil Rights Movement L
1. Describe the three organizations and their goals
2. What is the color line? Describe the person/experience as it relates to breaking the color line.
3. What is Executive Order 9981 and why did President Truman sign it?
4. What decision did Brown v. Board of Education overturn? What did it change?
5. What happened on Dec. 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama?
6. Describe what came next How was nonviolent resistance part of the SCLC?
7. Describe the school year for the Little Rock Nine. What is a sit-in?
8. Why did they capture so much attention?
9. What is civil disobedience and direct action? How did SNCC use these tactics?
10. Describe the Freedom Rides.
11. Who is James Meredith?
12. Why did MLK Jr. write Letter from Birmingham Jail? Who was he writing to (both directly and indirectly)?
13. What took place in Birmingham that grabbed the nation's attention?
14. What was the goal of the March on Washington? What made so special?
15. What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 change?
16. Describe what took place in Selma and what happened in response?
17. How was Malcom X different than MLK Jr.?
18. What took place in Watts? Where else did this take place? Describe the Black Power/Black Panther movements.