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History Chapter 16 Study Guide

California Content Standards:
11.10 Students analyze the development of federal civil rights and voting rights.
1.Explain how demands of African Americans helped produce a stimulus for civil rights, including President Roosevelt's ban on racial
discrimination in defense industries in 1941, and how African Americans' service in World War II produced a stimulus for President
Truman's decision to end segregation in the armed forces in 1948.
2.Examine and analyze the key events, policies, and court cases in the evolution of civil rights, including Dred Scott v. Sandford, Plessy v.
Ferguson, Brown v. Board of Education, Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, and California Proposition 209.
3.Describe the collaboration on legal strategy between African American and white civil rights lawyers to end racial segregation in higher
education.
4.Examine the roles of civil rights advocates (e.g., A. Philip Randolph, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Thurgood Marshall, James
Farmer, Rosa Parks), including the significance of Martin Luther King, Jr. 's "Letter from Birmingham Jail" and "I Have a Dream" speech.
5.Discuss the diffusion of the civil rights movement of African Americans from the churches of the rural South and the urban North,
including the resistance to racial desegregation in Little Rock and Birmingham, and how the advances influenced the agendas, strategies,
and effectiveness of the quests of American Indians, Asian Americans, and Hispanic Americans for civil rights and equal opportunities.
6.Analyze the passage and effects of civil rights and voting rights legislation (e.g., 1964 Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act of 1965) and the
Twenty-Fourth Amendment, with an emphasis on equality of access to education and to the political process.
7.Analyze the women's rights movement from the era of Elizabeth Stanton and Susan Anthony and the passage of the Nineteenth
Amendment to the movement launched in the 1960s, including differing perspectives on the roles of women.

Terms
1. Separate-but-equal (16.1)
2. De facto segregation (16.1)
3. Sit-in (16.1)
4. NAACP (16.1)
5. Southern Christian Leadership Conference (16.1)
6. Plessy vs. Ferguson (16.1)
7. Brown vs. Board of Education (16.1)
8. Montgomery Bus Boycott (16.1)
9. Little Rock Nine (16.1)
10. Freedom Summer (Notes)
11. Freedom Riders (16.2)
12. Filibuster (16.2)
13. Cloture (16.2)
14. Poll Tax and Literacy Test (16.2)
15. Civil Rights of 1964 (16.2)
16. March on Washington (16.2)
17. Selma March (16.3)
18. Racism (16.3)
19. Watts Riot (16.3)
20. The Kerner Commission (16.3)
21. Black Power (16.3)
22. Nation of Islam (16.3)
23. Chicano Movement (16.3)
24. Blank Panthers (16.3)
25. Regents of University California Vs. Bakke (Notes)

People
1. Thurgood Marshal (16.1)
2. Linda Brown (16.1)
3. Martin Luther King Jr. (16.1)
4. Rosa Parks (16.1)
5. James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman (Notes)
6. Jesse Jackson (16.2)
7. Ella Baker (16.2)
8. James Meredith (16.2)
9. Richard Daley (16.3)
10. Stokely Carmichael (16.3)
26. Malcolm X (16.3)
11. Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, and Eldridge Cleaver (16.3)
Questions
1. Explain the origin of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. (16.1)

2. Discuss the role of the Federal Government in the civil rights movement. (16.1)

3. Evaluate the Civil Rights Act of 1964. (16.2)

4. Summarize the efforts to establish voting rights for African Americans. (16.2)

5. Describe the division between Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and the black Power movement. (16.3)

6. Discuss the direction and progress of the civil rights movement after 1968. (16.3)