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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