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1. This Chapter: Last Chapter Next Chapter Ch28: The Civil Rights Movement 1950’s and 60’s Pgs 870-885 Ch. 27+29: The Cold War Final Exam Review Is about: African Americans launched a major civil rights movement in the years following World War II. Members of the movement organized demonstrations to protest unfair treatment and segregation in public places. In this chapter, you will learn about the efforts of African Americans such as the “Little Rock Nine”, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. and others to gain civil rights protections in the 1950’s, 1960’s, and 1970’s. Essential Questions for the Chapter: • How did Civil Rights activists use legal challenges and public protests to confront segregation? • Groups that formed • Legal efforts • Protests/key events Key Vocabulary: What obstacles faced supporters of desegregation? How did President Kennedy and Johnson support civil rights? What other groups worked for equal rights in the 1960’s? Question 1+ 2 NAACP, CORE, MIA, SCLC, SNCC Segregation/desegregation integration discrimination/ prejudice Plessy v Ferguson Brown v. Bd of Ed Little Rock Nine Thurgood Marshall Rosa Parks Montgomery Bus Boycott Martin Luther King Jr. Sit-in nonviolent resistance Freedom Rides/ Freedom Summer “Letter from Birmingham Jail” Birmingham March March on Washington Question 3 Civil Rights Act- 1964 Voting Rights Act- 1965 Great Society Question 4 Betty Friedan NOW ERA Quiz: None Test: Thursday, May 23td Approximate time: 6 days