Civil Rights Movement Worksheet
African-Americans Civil Rights Worksheet
Purpose: To understand the basic facts of the African-American Civil Rights Movement and how they relate to each other
1. Timeline Create a timeline for every major event involved in the struggle for African-American civil rights. Include answers to all questions for all events. This can be simply written or put into a more artistic timeline.
|Events |Questions |
|Boston Busing |What is it? (One sentence) |
|Brown v Board of Education |When did it happen? (Placed on your timeline) |
|The Civil Rights Act of 1964 |Who was involved? (Name major groups and |
|The Congress of Racial Equality is formed |leaders) |
|Desegregation of the military |Where did it happen? |
|Formation of the NAACP |Name one major cause. |
|The Freedom Riders |Name one major effect. |
|Freedom Summer | |
|Little Rock Nine | |
|Malcolm X begins leading the Nation of Islam | |
|Martin Luther King Jr’s “I have a Dream” Speech | |
|Martin Luther King’s assassination | |
|Montgomery Bus Boycott | |
|The Murder of Emmitt Till | |
|Plessy v Ferguson | |
|Race Riots in Watts and other cities | |
|Rodney King Trial | |
|Southern Christian Leadership Conference is formed | |
|Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee is formed | |
|The Strategy of Sit-Ins | |
|The Voting Rights Act of 1965 | |
2. Vocabulary Write a definition or explanation for each of the following terms and people.
|Boycott |Lynching |Nation of Islam |
|Civil Disobedience |Segregation |Rosa Parks |
|Integration |Bull Connor |Thurgood Marshall |
|Jim Crow Laws |WEB Du Bois |Black Power |
|Literacy Tests |Booker T Washington |Huey Newton |
|Black Panthers |Reconstruction | |
3. Short Answer Write a one-page response to this question: Was the African-American Civil Rights Movement successful? To help you clarify the question, think of it this way: what was the purpose of the Civil Rights Movement, and did it achieve that purpose?
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