Wintana Kiflu May 8, 2012 Period 1
Civil Rights Movement
Directions: Use the links to complete the webquest about the Civil Rights Movement Background: Slavery existed in America until the end of the Civil War in 1865. African Americans in the South then became victims of Jim Crow laws that limited their economic and political freedoms. Many African Americans fled the South during the Great Migration, but those that remained in the South had to deal with Jim Crow laws that enforced segregation. In the 1950s a Civil Rights movement was launched by African American southerners to obtain the equality they were promised a century before. Brown vs. Board of Education [Link] In 1896, the Supreme Court (Americas highest court) heard the case of Plessy v. Ferguson. In this case, the Supreme Court decided that segregation was legal. They used the phrase, separate, but equal to explain that facilities (such as schools and restaurants) could be separated by race as long as they were equal. In 1954, the Supreme Court heard another case about segregation, Brown v. Board of Education. 1. What did the Supreme Court decide in Brown v. Board of Education? They decided that school segregation was unnecessary and unconstitutional as well. They made all schools become desegregated schools. 2. How did this case change American public schools? (hint: look around the room) It changed schools for the better because now our schools are integrated and blacks and whites are together and are learning together. The Montgomery Bus Boycott [Link] Southern states required African Americans to sit in the back of the bus and to give up their seats to white riders upon request. 3. Why was Rosa Parks arrested? Rosa Parks was arrested because she refused to give up her seat to a white man when the driver asked her to get up even though she was sitting in the row that was meant for blacks. 4. Who was the leader of the Montgomery Bus Boycott? Marin Luther King Jr.
5. How did the Montgomery Bus Boycott end? Segregation on public buses was ruled unconstitutional and blacks were given the same rights as whites. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Wintana Kiflu May 8, 2012 Period 1 [Link] 6. Dr. King believed in civil disobedience. What does that mean? No, king did not believe in civil obedience. He was the opposite, he fought for freedom in a civilized way, by organizing peaceful ways of protesting. 7. Do you agree with civil disobedience? Why or why not? No, I do not agree. Why go for a violent protest when you can go for a peaceful and nonviolent protest? Why hurt people when you can achieve the same thing and no one gets hurt? Non-violent Protests - Sit-ins and Freedom Riders [Link] Dr. King advocated for passive resistance and non-violent protests. He thought that African Americans could best achieve equality by protesting without violence 8. What is a sit-in? It is when you go to a store or a public place and protest by just sitting and protesting peacefully. You would not hit back even if they hit you first. 9. What were the students protesting at the Woolworth lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina? Four freshmen went sat at the Woolworth lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. They sat at the all white man section and asked to be served. 10. Did these students succeed? Explain. In a way, they won because they caught the other attention of blacks and they also joined and so many more people joined their protests. But they still failed at getting that barrier at the lunch counter and just destroying it.
[Link] 11. What were the freedom riders trying to accomplish? The freedom riders were there seeking to integrate the bus, rail and airport terminals. What happened to the freedom riders in Anniston, Alabama? They were attacked, severely beat, hurt, and near death. They were attacked by people that wanted to stop them from trying to desegregate buses, cars, airplanes and other public places. The Death of Emmitt Till [Link]
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Wintana Kiflu May 8, 2012 Period 1 1. Where was Emmitt Till from and how old was he when he went to visit Mississippi? (slide 1) He was born in Chicago and he was 14 years old when he went to Mississippi. 2. Who killed Emmitt Till and why did they kill him? (slide 2) Bryant and Milam and they killed him because he was accused of whistling at a white woman 3. Did the man who killed Emmitt Till go to jail? Why or why not? (slide 3-4) No they did not, they were quickly ruled innocent. 4. How did African Americans in Mississippi protest the death of Emmitt Till? (slide 7) They boycotted the store that was owned by one of the guilty defendants 5. What does the Emmitt Till murder tell you about race relations in the South in the 1950s? blacks were thought of as nonsuperior race and whites as a superior; they were treated horribly because of that
Other links to explore if time allows Dr. Kings assassination [Link] Little Rock Nine - [Link] BrainPop videos Civil Rights [Link]
Brown v. Board [Link]
Wintana Kiflu May 8, 2012 Period 1 Dr. King [Link] jr/ Malcolm X [Link] Cesar Chavez - [Link]
