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Civil Rights Information Hunt

 

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal."

 On this website you will be asked to find the answers to the question provided.  The answers will be found by examining the websites and graphics that are linked to each question.

 

 

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Questions: 1-4:

http://www.digisys.net/users/hootie/brown/view.htm

 

1.   Briefly describe the background of the Brown vs. the Board of Education case.
 

 

2.  Who said "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever."?.

 

3Why did the Supreme Court find that segregation  was unconstitutional ?

 

4. What civil rights attorney involved in this case would become America's first Black Supreme Court Justice.?

 

 

Questions 5-11  Helpful Links:  

www.infoplease.com/spot/mlkbiospot.html

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAnonviolent.htm

http://www.infoimagination.org/ps/martin/

http://www.grandtimes.com/rosa.html

http://www.scholastic.ca/titles/lifemlksamp.htm

http://members.aol.com/klove01/movies/dream.mov

Helpful Links

 

5.Who emerged as a the leader of the Civil Rights movement? .

 

6. What famous world leader strongly influenced Martin Luther King and why? 

 

7. What forms of nonviolent resistance did Martin Luther King lead? 

 

8. Who was Rosa Parks and what form of nonviolent protest (civil disobedience) did her actions produce?  7

 

9. Martin Luther King and Malcom X were prominent Black leaders of the Civil Rights Movement.  Compare their statements in using violence to bring about change in America.

 

10. What event happened on April 4, 1968 ?

 

11. In Martin Luther King's famous "I Have Dream" speech who does he hope will soon join hands? Watch the Movie!

 

 Test your knowledge on this Civil Rights quiz!  

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