Civil Rights Movement Webercise

Answer the following questions using the links that are available at the end of this
handout.
1. Name three amendments that were added to the United States Constitution that
guarantee essential, or civil, rights. Give a one-sentence summary for each.
2. Explain the Jim Crow Laws and what they meant for African Americans.
3. List three differences between the major court cases Plessy vs. Ferguson and Brown
vs. Board of Education.
4. What did Governor Orval Faubus mean when he declared blood will run in the
streets, and what was he referring to? What happened afterward?
5. Was President John F. Kennedy for or against desegregation? What reservations
might he have had? Why?
6. Who was Cesar Chavez and what did he do?
7. Why was Malcolm X such a polarizing figure?

8. Visit the website: http://edtech2.boisestate.edu/croninv/502/Virtual_Field_Trip/

Virtual_Fieldtrip.html. Take the interactive Civil Rights Field Trip and respond to
the questions on the right-hand side of the screen for each stop on your trip.
9. With a partner, create a timeline using both text and photographs of the Civil Rights
Movement. You must include at least five famous figures and ten events with a brief
description of why they were important to the movement. Create your timeline on
http://popplet.com, where you can easily draw connections showing the
ramifications of each event or personality that you choose.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eyesontheprize/
http://old.seattletimes.com/special/mlk/
http://civilrightsmuseum.org
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LukWzli19M
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/civil-rights-movement
http://www.pbs.org/itvs/fightfields/