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10.5. The Civil Rights Movement in the USA

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 The Time of Television and Computers
10.5. The Civil Rights Movement in the USA

Practise questions

Slide 1 - Slide

1. What does it mean to be a second-class citizen?

Slide 2 - Open question

2. What is segregation?

Slide 3 - Open question

3. Supporters of segregation often describe the way people
live together there as ‘separate, but equal’.
Was this true of the segregation in the USA?
Use the concept ‘Jim Crow Laws’ in your answer.

Slide 4 - Open question

Slide 5 - Slide

4a) When do you think the photograph was taken?
c) What do you think the man who carries the sign saying ‘No Vietnamese
ever called me a nigger’ wanted to say?

Slide 6 - Open question

Students shouting at African American student Elizabeth Eckford, as she tries to pass through the lines of National Guardsmen in an effort to gain entrance to Little Rock's (Ark.) Central High School.

Slide 7 - Slide

Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division escort the Little Rock Nine students into the all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Ark.

Slide 8 - Slide

5. Why do the students in the photograph need protection from the army?


Slide 9 - Open question

6. Name three forms of non-violent protest that the
Civil Rights Movement used.


Slide 10 - Open question

7. The Montgomery bus boycott was probably more successful if coloured people refused to use the bus than if white people had refused to take the bus. Can you explain this?


Slide 11 - Open question

8. Watch the video of Martin Luther King's speech.
Fill in the gaps.

slave owners
brotherhood
the American Dream
content of their character
that all men are created equal
slaves
skin
freedom and justice

Slide 12 - Drag question

9. What is a lynching?


Slide 13 - Open question

10. When and why was the Ku Klux Klan founded?


Slide 14 - Open question

11. How many years are there between the abolition of slavery in the USA and the year the African American population of the USA received full civil rights?



Slide 15 - Open question

12. Name two differences between the new movements - Black Power and Black Panthers - and the original Civil Rights Movement.




Slide 16 - Open question

Protesters took part in a Black Lives Matter rally in Seattle on Apr. 15, 2017

Slide 17 - Slide

13. Would you say that the struggle against inequality and discrimination of African Americans is over?
Use at least two arguments to support your answer.





Slide 18 - Open question

That's it. All clear?

Write down one question about something in this lesson that you still don't fully understand.

IN THE NEXT SLIDE YOU CAN FIND THE VIDEO ABOUT THE LITTLE ROCK HIGHSCHOOL INCIDENT.
YOU CAN WATCH IT IF YOU ARE INTERESTED.

Slide 19 - Open question

Slide 20 - Video

Slide 21 - Video

congratulations
congratulations

Slide 22 - Slide