Civil+Rights

Previous multiple choice questions have covered the following topics:

Dixiecrats Brown v. Board of Education Civil Rights Commission (1957) Martin Luther King, Jr. Stokely Carmichael Black Panthers Nation of Islam Black Power Movement Sit-ins SNCC Greensboro, NC George Wallace (American Independent Party)

Listed below are previous DBQs and FRQs that deal with Civil Rights:

Analyze the changes that occurred during the 1960s in the goals, strategies, and support of the movement for African American civil rights. Use the documents and your knowledge of the history of the 1960s to construct your response.
 * __DBQs__**

1. "Although the 1960s are usually considered the decade of greatest achievement for black civil rights, the 1940s and 1950s were periods of equally important gains." Assess the validity of this statement.
 * __FRQs__**

2. How did the African American Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s address the failures of Reconstruction?

Emergence of the modern civil rights movement The affluent society and "the other America" Consensus and conformity: suburbia and middle-class America Social critics, nonconformists, and cultural crisis Impact of changes in science, technology and medicine
 * __AP Topics__**
 * The 1950s**

From New Frontier to Great Society Expanding movements for civil rights The antiwar movement and the counterculture
 * The Turbulent 1960s**