AFRICAN-AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT (1955-1968)

ACTIVITY 1. How much do you know about the Civil Rights Movement? Choose the correct answer.

1. The Civil Rights Movement took place between:

a) 1940-1955

b) 1955-1968

c) 1968-1982

2. What is the meaning of the term “racial segregation”?

a) it is the separation of different racial groups in daily life

b) it is a war between different racial groups

c) it is when different racial groups live together in the same neighbourhood

3. Who were the three American Presidents in power during that  period?

a) Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower

b) Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson

c) Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.

4. Who were the main black leaders in the Civil Rights Movement?

a) Benjamin Banneker and Sojourner Truth

b) Harriet Jacobs and Alexander Crummel

c) Martin Luther King and Malcom X

5. Who won the Nobel Peace Prize for leading non-violent civil rights demonstrations?

a) Martin Luther King

b) Malcom X

c) Shirley Chisholm

ACTIVITY 2. Look at the pictures below They are Civil Rights Movement Leaders. Match each Picture with their names.

1. Malcom X

2. Rosa Parks

3. Martin Luther King

4. W.E.B. Du Bois

ACTIVITY 3. VOCABULARY. Match the words/expressions below with their definitions.

1. DEMONSTRATION
2. BOYCOTT

3. RACIAL SEGREGATION

4. DISENFRANCHISEMENT

5. EXPLOITATION

6. VIOLENCE

7. LAWSUIT

8. SITS-IN

9. SOCIAL EQUALITY

10. EQUAL RIGHTS

A. When public facilities and government services such as education were divided into separate "white" and "colored" domains. Characteristically, those for colored were underfunded and of inferior quality.

B. Increased economic oppression of blacks, Latinos, and Asians, denial of economic opportunities, and widespread employment discrimination.

C. When white Democrats regained power, they passed laws that made voter registration more inaccessible to blacks. Black voters were forced off the voting rolls. The number of African American voters dropped dramatically, and they no longer were able to elect representatives

D. Individual, police, organizational, and mass racial aggressions to blacks.

E. An expresion of protest as a means of coercion by which you abstain from or act together in abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with something.

F. An action or a suit brought before a court, as to recover a right or redress a grievance.

G.It is a social state of affairs in which all people have the same status in a certain respect, at the very least in voting rights, freedom of speech and assembly, the extent of property rights as well as the access to education, health care and other social securities.

H. A political rally or protest.

I. The concept that every person is to be treated equally by the law

J. An occupation of a building etc by protesters

ACTIVITY 4. Watch the following video, and answer the questions below:

The Civil Rights Movement

Ø What are equal rights?

Ø What violent scenes did you see?

Ø How does the author feel about these situations?

Ø Why was Emmet Till killed?

Ø Why did thousands of children marched in Birmingham?

Ø What happened to freedom riders?

Ø What good things resulted from the Civil Rights Movement?

Ø What feelings do the heroes and heroines of the Civil Rights Movement inspire in the author?

Ø Which of the following things did you see in the video?

1. demonstration
2. boycott

3. racial segregation

4. disenfranchisement

5. exploitation

6. violence

7. lawsuit

8. sits-in

9. social equality

10. equal rights