10.5: Civil Rights Movement in the USA - Q -

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10.5. The Civil Rights Movement in the USA

Practise questions

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

2. What is segregation?

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.

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?

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.

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

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

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

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?

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

9. What is a lynching?

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

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?

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

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

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.

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.

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