Progress Test 6 The Civil Right movement

Give one way in which WW2 improved the position of Black Americans in society

Give one way in which opportunities were limited during and after WW2

What is the significance of the 1896 Plessy vs Ferguson ruling?

Which famous legal case in 1954 ended segregation in schools, ruling separate but equal ‘unconstitutional?

How did the Governor of Arkansas react to integration at Little Rock high school?

What actions did President Eisenhower take over the Little Rock crisis in 1957?

Give two facts about the Montgomery Bus Boycott

What is a ‘Sit-in’ and when did the first one occur?

What was infamously fire bombed at the town of Aniston in 1961

Which town did Martin Luther King target for a de-segregation campaign in 1963?

Which famous speech did Martin Luther King make at the March on Washington in 1963?

Which infamous assassination in 1963 held back a new Civil Rights Law

When was the Civil Right law eventually passed and what did it mean?

Give two facts about the Civil Right movements campaign to gain voting rights

Give two facts about the ‘Nation of Islam’

Give two facts about the ‘Black Panthers’

What year was Malcolm X assassinated?

Which famous Civil Right leader was assassinated in 1968 and how did people react?