Starter quiz
- Match the keywords with their definitions
- enrol⇔to officially register as a student on a university course ✓
- direct action⇔the use of demonstrations or protest to achieve a goal ✓
- integrated⇔groups with both black and white Americans ✓
- Which of the following groups came together to organise Freedom Rides?
- CORE ✓
- NAACP
- SNCC ✓
- SCLC ✓
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- In which year had the Supreme Court had ordered interstate bus terminals and stations to desegregate.
- 1955
- 1957
- 1959
- 1960 ✓
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- Which president supported the enrolment of James Meredith at the University of Mississippi with federal troops.
- President Johnson
- President Eisenhower
- President Kennedy ✓
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- Who were the first black students to enrol at the University of Alabama on 11th June 1963?
- James Meredith
- Vivan Malone ✓
- James Hood ✓
- Elizabeth Eckford
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- ______ is the act of signing up to be able to vote, which often involves meeting certain criteria.
- 'Voter registration' ✓
Exit quiz
- Which two organisations launched the Birmingham campaign?
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) ✓
- Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR) ✓
- National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP)
- Congress for Racial Equality (CORE)
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- The temporary schools set up in Mississippi to help overcome the inequalities in schooling were known as ______.
- 'freedom schools' ✓
- What did Martin Luther King Jr write in April 1963?
- Letter from Birmingham Jail ✓
- March on Washington for jobs and freedom plan
- 'I have a dream’ speech
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- How many civil rights protestors were at the 'March on Washington' in August 1963?
- 250 000 ✓
- 80 000
- 2 000
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- What was organised in June 1964 to reignite the Civil Rights Movement following the assassination of President Kennedy?
- Boycott Summer
- Freedom Summer ✓
- Freedom Rides
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- Which act was signed by President Johnson in 1964?
- Brown v Topeka
- Plessy v Fergusson
- Civil Rights Act ✓
- Voting Rights Act
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Key learning points
- King wrote the 'Letter from Birmingham Jail' after he was arrested following demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama.
- Kennedy became directly involved in Birmingham in May 1963, deciding to introduce a Civil Rights Act.
- In August 1963, the March on Washington became one of the most famous moments of the movement with 250,000 protestors.
- After the assassination of Kennedy in November 1963, many felt the civil rights movement began to slow down.
- Freedom Summer aimed to increase voter registration in Mississippi, but their schools became targets of violent attacks.
Common misconception
After Martin Luther King's famous 'I have a dream' speech, the civil rights movement continued to progress until the Civil Rights Act was passed.
The assassination of President Kennedy stalled the momentum the movement had gained with the events in Birmingham, he was the president that many black American had put their hope in - and many feared their hope died with him.
Keywords
Direct action - the use of demonstrations or protests to achieve a goal, rather than negotiation
Freedom schools - temporary schools set up in Mississippi to help overcome the inequalities in schooling
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