Reading Qs
21.1
1. What was important about Jackie
Robinson’s career in baseball?
2. How did the migration of
African-Americans impact society in the north?
3. The case of Plessy v. Ferguson
declared segregation constitutional according to the principle of “separate but
equal.” What is problematic in the Plessy decision?
4. What did the case of Brown v. Board of Education do, and why was/is education so significant to
civil rights?
5. Alabama Governor George Wallace
announced at his inauguration, “I draw the line in the dust and toss the
gauntlet before the feet of tyranny and I say segregation now, segregation
tomorrow, segregation forever.” What is
the “tyranny” he is speaking of?
6. The Montgomery bus boycott set the
stage for future protests. What did the
civil rights movement learn in Montgomery?
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