SUNY at Buffalo The Civil Rights Movement Strengthens Analysis Questions

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Essential Questions:

• How can we ensure equality for all?
• What were the causes, main events, and effects of the civil rights movement?
• How did the policies of Presidents Kennedy and Johnson affect the nation?

Section 1: The Civil Rights Movement Strengthens

• Describe efforts to end segregation in the 1940s and 1950s.
• Explain the importance of the landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education.
• Describe the controversy over school desegregation in Little Rock, Arkansas.
• Discus the Montgomery bus boycott and its impact.

Section 2: The Movement Surges Forward

• Describe the sit-ins, freedom ride, and the actions of James Meredith in the early 1960s.
• Explain how the protests at Birmingham and the March on Washington were linked to the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
• Describe how the Civil Rights Act of 1964 addressed minority rights in the United States.

Section 3: Success and Setbacks

• Explain the significance of Freedom Summer, the march on Selma, and why violence erupted in some American cities in the 1960s.
• Compare and contrast the goals and approaches taken by African American leaders to expand political rights and economic opportunities.
• Describe the social and economic situation of African Americans by 1975.

Section 4: Kennedy’s Reforms

• Discuss the election of 1960.
• Evaluate Kennedy’s domestic policies.
• Assess the impact of Kennedy’s assassination.

Section 5: Reform under Johnson

• Evaluate Johnson’s policies up to his victory in the 1964 election.
• Analyze Johnson’s goals and actions as seen in his Great Society programs.
• Assess the achievements of the Great Society in creating economic opportunities for citizens.
• Analyze the effects of US Supreme Court decisions.