Mr. Maltsberger's: American History

April/May

Ch. 21

Civil Rights, 1954-1970

Reading Assignment: Pages 698-726

Big Picture:

-To understand the African American struggle for civil rights during the 1950s and 1960s.

What you will learn...

1. After decades of discrimination, African Americans begin a struggle for equality. They make gains against unfair laws in the South, but as the movement reaches northern cities, gains are fewer.

2. African Americans use strong organization and nonviolent tactics to confront the South's policies of segregation and racial inequality.

3. Civil rights activists break down numerous racial barriers through continued social protest and prompting of landmark legislation.

4. The civil rights movement turns north, new leaders emerge, and the movement becomes more militant, thus leaving behind a mixed legacy.

Esssential Vocabulary, Terms, & People

1. Plessy v. Ferguson

2. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

3. Thurgood Marshall

4. Rosa Parks

5. Martin Luther King, Jr.

6. Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

7. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

8. Sit-in

9. Freedom Riders

10. James Meredith

11. Civil Rights Act of 1964

12. Freedom Summer

13. Fannie Lou Hamer

14. Voting Rights Act of 1965

15. De facto Segregation

16. De jure Segregation

17. Malcolm X

18. Nation of Islam

19. Black Power

20. Black Panthers