Para 9: Modern Civil Rights Movement

Question 1

What year was the Brown decision?

Answer 1

1954

Question 2

What did the Brown decision do?

Answer 2

The Brown decision marks the beginning of the modern Civil Rights Movement and it is here which the philosophy, and not simply the application, of segregation is questioned, and this leads to segregated schooling becoming illegal

Question 3

What year was the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

Answer 3

1955

Question 4

What did the Montgomery Bus Boycott do and prove?

Answer 4

It successfully desegregated Montgomery transport and underlined that protests which were most successful were those which demonstrated that segregation negatively impact white people economically, rather than appealing morally

Question 5

What year were the Freedom Rides

Answer 5

1960

Question 6

What did the Freedom Rides do?

Answer 6

The Freedom Rides were key in illustrating a crisis in the application of new laws and the psychological treatment of African American’s in America

Question 7

What year was the March on Washington?

Answer 7

1963

Question 8

Where did Martin Luther King deliver his ‘I Have a Dream’ speech?

Answer 8

March on Washing 1963

Question 9

What did the I Have a Dream speech utilise?

Answer 9

The tactic of not seeking to rewrite notions of American freedoms, but asking to subscribe to them

Question 10

What legislation caused by the Civil Rights Movement expanded African American freedoms?

Answer 10

Civil Rights Act 1964 and the Voting Rights Act 1965

Question 11

What year was the Civil Rights Act passed?

Answer 11

1964

Question 12

What year was the Voting Rights Act passed and what did it do?

Answer 12

1965, repeals the poll tax and literacy tests for African American voters

Question 13

What do the modern Civil Rights Movement and subsequent legislative shifts mark?

Answer 13

A change in American definitions of freedom and highlights the contradictions of freedom and the exclusivity of it