Civil Rights Webquest
CIVIL RIGHTS WEBQUEST http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/freedom-summer
1. What was the purpose of Freedom Summer? 2. What do CORE and SNCC stand for? 3. What were their roles in the Freedom Summer? 4. What was the result of the Freedom Summer? http://www.sitins.com/story.shtml
5. What did the Greensboro Four do? 6. Who supported the Greensboro Four? http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/freedom-rides
7. What were the Freedom Rides? 8. What troubles did they face in Alabama? 9. Why were freedom riders sentenced to 30 days in jail in Mississippi? 10. What was the result of the freedom rides? http://www.ducksters.com/history/civil_rights/birmingham_campaign.php
11. What was the Birmingham Campaign? 12. Who was the main opponent to the Birmingham Campaign? 13. Who wrote the letter from Birmingham Jail? 14. What were the results of the campaign? http://www.crmvet.org/info/mow.pdf
15. In 1941, which individual first proposed the March on Washington? 16. What were the seven goals demanded by A. Philip Randolph at the March on Washington? http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm
Read Martin Luther King’s I Have a Dream Speech.
17. List four specific injustices against Black Americans that King mentions?
18. Does King address White people or Black people in his speech? Give evidence to back up your answer.
19. What are four messages that King gave in the speech?
20. Why do you feel this speech is considered one of the most important in American history? http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/al4.htm 21. What was the Selma-to-Montgomery March?
22. As a result of the marches, what did President Lyndon Johnson sign?
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23. Why did John F. Kennedy want a Civil Rights bill passed?
24. What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 do? http://ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=100
25. What did the 1965 Voting Rights Act do?
26. How were African-Americans being denied the right to vote before this Act was passed? http://malcolmx.com/biography/ 27. According to Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad, how did white society keep African-Americans down? What was the goal of the Nation of Islam? http://www.biography.com/people/malcolm-x-9396195#troubled-youth 28. Why did Malcolm X criticize Martin Luther King Jr. and the mainstream Civil Rights Movement?
29. After leaving the Nation of Islam, how did Malcolm X try to improve racial and economic problems? http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1516 30. Why did Stokley Carmichael advocate Black Power? Why did he promote black rage and militancy?
31. In 1968, what did Stokley Carmichael promote in American cities? http://www.blackpanther.org/TenPoint.htm 32. Summarize the ten goals of the Black Panther Party.