MORE about the Civil Rights Movement
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
You’ll find here several documents & activities to learn more about this critical period in American history.
1/ WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT?
Test your knowledge! > 
TAKE THE QUIZ (12 true/False questions) ! Good luck!
1/ True or false? The American Constitution says that "All men are created equal"?
FALSE, it is written in the American Declaration of Indepence (1776)
2/ True or False? Slavery was abolished after the Civil War in 1865 by President A. Lincoln.
TRUE
3/ True or False? Segregation enabled to protect the African-Americans'rights
FALSE, it discriminated against the blacks and limited their rights
4/ True or False? Under the Jim Crow Laws, public facilities were "separate but equal" : it means that colored people could go into the same places as the whites.
FALSE, they could NOT. They had their own public spaces.
5/ True or False? The movement against racial discrimination started in the 1920s
FALSE, in the 1950s
6/ True or False? The Pacifists organized sit-ins and peaceful marches to protest, in the 1950s and 1960s
TRUE
7/ True or False? The Black Power Movement and Black Panthers were non-violent movements
FALSE, they used violence to achieve their goals.
8/ True or False? They demanded full employment, better housing and better education for the blacks
TRUE
9/ True or False? Malcolm X was a leading figure in the Black Power Movement
TRUE
10/ True or False? In the 1960s, President Kennedy disapproved of the Civil Rights Movement
FALSE, he approved of giving civil rights to the blacks
11/ True or False? It was President Johnson who signed the Civil Rights Act in 1964
TRUE
12/ True or False? In 1964, the Civil Rights Act made racial discrimination (and segregation) illegal in public places.
TRUE
2/ NOW LEARN MORE : watch the video below
3/ POD LECTURE: The Legacy of the 1960s
Lecteur audio
>> Listen to the recording and then do the True/False Quiz below:
1/ Condoleeza Rice tried on her dress in the regular dressing room (cabine d'essayage)
FALSE
2/ The saleslady wanted to send her to the storage room (=réserve)
TRUE
3/ Her mother obeyed the saleswoman
FALSE
4/ Condoleeza Rice is now a politician
TRUE
5/ Middle-class blacks have less money today (than in the 60s)
FALSE
6/ More middle-class blacks live in houses they own (=possess)
TRUE
7/ The poverty rate is the same fro blacks and for whites
FALSE
8/ Blacks earn the same as their White counterparts.
FALSE
>> Listen again and fill in the gaps with the key words:
Listen and fill in the blanks with key words
Before starting today’s lecture on the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement in the 60s, I want to take you back in time.
Long ago, in a , Alabama, department , a woman was for a nice party dress with her -year old little . A sales told the that her couldn’t the regular changing to try her – she would have to use the room. The mother saying, “My will try on this in a room, or I spend my money .” That was Condoleeza Rice who went on to become the - she is today.
Her is a of the actions in the . Blacks are definitely today than they were then. The Black - is , and Blacks own their or their .
However, the is won. The rate among Blacks still is the rate for Whites and Black Americans earn % than their White counterparts. There is much left to be done.
3/ TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE NOW!
1/ Which of these statements about the Emancipation Poclamation is NOT TRUE?
It took place after the Civil War
2/ Which of these statements is NOT RIGHT?
The failure of the sit-in tactic ended the civil rights movement
3/ Martin Luther King Jr. was
a minister (a trained religious leader)
4/ Martin Luther King delivered his "I have a dream" speech during...
The March on Washington
5/ Which method did the NAACP (MLK's movement) NOT employ?
violence to push for social change
6/ Which of these statements about various activist movements is NOT true?
"Nation of Islam" was a non-violent movement
7/ What was the (unofficial) motto (devise) of civil rights activists in the 1950s and 1960s?
"We shall overcome"
8/ What did Rosa Parks protest against in 1955?
segregation in buses
9/ Blacks boycotted pubic transportation in Montgormey, Alabama, after...
Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give her seat on a bus to a white person
Which of these statements about Brown vs. Board of Education is NOT TRUE
the black family lost the case and had to make their daughter attend an "all-black" school
To know MORE about the LEADER of the Civil Rights Movement, Martin Luther King Jr.:
Writer's notebook