Thursday, June 1, 2017

FINAL/QUIZ

For the final, you will be required to answer three of the following questions at random in addition to two document-based questions.
  • Explain events in the Civil Rights Movement up to the point of the Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954. Here is the reading that covered this in class.
  • What was the MFDP? What were their goals and tactics?
  • Identify and explain two events in the Civil Rights movement between 1954 and 1968.
  • Identify and explain two Civil Rights organizations. Compare and contrast. How were they similar? How were they different?
  • How and why did the Civil Rights movement begin to fragment in the late '60s?
  • How and why did FBI COINTELPRO target civil rights organizations?
  • Identity and explain how another group of Americans struggled for civil rights. (Latinos, American Indians, Asian Americans, Disabled, gay, or older Americans)
  • Discuss either mass incarceration or housing discrimination as it has affected black communities.