Monday, April 30, 2012

4/20-30 Vietnam

Americanization 1965-68 RG--Q's 1965-68 Vietnamization Phase 1968-1973 RG---Q's 1968-73 Kent State and Student Protest Soldier's Perspective of Vietnam

4/13-19 Pinnacle of Liberalism

Pinnacle of Liberalism RG. Warren Court Wkst. LBJ/Warren Court Quiz

4/11-12 Civil Rights Review/EXAM

Monday, April 9, 2012

4/9-10 The Great Society and the Warren Court

Library to work on the LBJ and Warren Court Internet Assignment.

4/6 1965-68 Civil Rts. Questions

Civil Rights 1965-68 Updated 2012
P. 73-75 A Time Bomb of Black Rage
1. How long did Watts burn? What were the human costs of the Watts riot?
2. How did Watts harm the Civil Rights movement? What was the “white backlash”?
3. What were some of the problems for urban blacks in northern cities during the sixties?
4. Why couldn’t blacks escape the ghettoes?
p. 80-84 Black Power
5. What was the debate about tactics and location among Civil Rights leaders?
6. What happened to James Meredith on his March Against Fear in 1966?
7. What did the new leadership in CORE and SNCC reflect? Why were they disillusioned, impatient and resentful?
8. Why was Malcolm X the first of a new phenomenon? What was this new phenomenon?
9. How did Muhammad Ali and James Brown influence the youth?
10. What replaced “We Shall Overcome”? What was Black Power?
11. What did McKissick say about the year 1966?
P. 84-86 Riots, Rebellion, and Responses
12. What happened when King went to Chicago?
13. What did LBJ feel was the answer?
14. Surprisingly, a 1/3 of the complaints to the EEOC came from what group? How was the response to this development?
P. 92-94 Summer of Discontent
15.. What group did Bobby Seale and Huey Newton found in Oakland, 1966? What did they do in May 1967?
16. What was advocated by The Panthers and H. Rap Brown, the new head of SNCC? What was the white response?
17. What happened in the summer of 1967 in inner city ghettoes? Describe Newark and Detroit, 1967.
18. What did the riots demonstrate about the differences in spending in the Johnson administration?
19. What did the Kerner Report state?
20. What did urban blacks demand? What did suburban whites demand?
P. 107-108 “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop”
21. What happened on April 4th 1968?
22. Why had King traveled to Memphis? What was he trying to get Congress to do?
23. What happened in the nation in response to the assassination?
24. How did King’s death leave the Civil Rights movement rudderless? What happened to SNCC, CORE and SCLC?
25. What was the legislative impact of King’s death?

4/4-5 LBJ and Civil Rts.

LBJ assumes the mantleship of leadership and ushers in the major pieces of legislative erasure of de jure segregation.

4/2-3 Civil Rts. Research

Civil Rts. Research in the Library