Nature of Discrimination
What laws institutionalized racial segregation in the Southern United States?
What are Jim Crow laws?
This woman’s refusal to give up her bus seat sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Who is Rosa Parks?
This civil rights leader led the Montgomery Bus Boycott and advocated for non-violent protest.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
This act, passed in 1964, ended segregation in public spaces and banned employment discrimination.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
This is the main focus of Paper 1 in our IB History curriculum.
What is the prescribed topic, Rights and Protest?
This violent group rose to prominence in the early 20th century to intimidate African Americans and suppress their rights.
What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
This organization, primarily led by students, organized the Freedom Rides.
What is the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)?
This group, known for Black Nationalism, was led by Elijah Muhammad and included Malcolm X.
What is the Nation of Islam?
This law, passed in 1965, aimed to eliminate voting barriers like literacy tests.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
The Cold War, part of both Paper 2 and Paper 3, was mainly between which two superpowers?
Who are the United States and the Soviet Union?
This landmark Supreme Court decision in 1954 challenged "separate but equal" in education.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This campaign focused on registering African American voters in Mississippi during the summer of 1964.
What is Freedom Summer?
Who was the President who signed both the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
Who was the U.S. President who signed the Civil Rights Act into law?
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
This is other case study under Paper 1.
What is Apartheid in South Africa Rights?
Name the type of economic system that forced many African Americans into debt on former plantations after the Civil War.
What is sharecropping or tenant farming?
Name the event in 1963 where Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech.
What is the March on Washington?
This organization, founded in 1909, used legal action to fight for African American civil rights.
What is the NAACP?
This amendment abolished poll taxes, making it easier for African Americans to vote.
What is the 24th Amendment?
Which IB History paper allows students to study Civil Rights and Social Movements in the Americas, overlapping with the U.S. Civil Rights topic?
Paper 3
What event in 1896 legalized segregation by upholding "separate but equal" in public facilities?
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This 1963 event took place in and became known for its violent police repression of activists.
What is the Birmingham Campaign and/or the Children's Crusade?
Which group of religious leaders founded by Martin Luther King Jr. was instrumental in organizing non-violent protests?
What is the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)?
This U.S. President proposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, but did not get to sign it.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
Name the Caribbean leader studied under the Cold War who also implemented significant social reforms in his country.
Who is Fidel Castro?
The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments were created to protect the rights of formerly enslaved African Americans.
What are the Reconstruction Amendments?
This form of non-violent protest was used frequently when protesters refused to leave a “whites-only" lunch counter.
What is a sit-in?
This individual, a civil rights leader, advocated for a "separate but equal" approach and initially opposed integration efforts.
Who is Malcolm X?
This U.S. President ordered the desegregation of the military in 1948.
Who is Harry S. Truman?
In the Rights and Protests paper, students explore the fight against apartheid in South Africa and the Civil Rights Movement in which other country?
What is the United States?
This term refers to political discrimination preventing African Americans from voting; historical examples include literacy tests, poll taxes, and the "grandfather clause."
What is disenfranchisement?
In 1965, activists marched from this town to Montgomery, Alabama, in a protest for voting rights, which was met with violence on "Bloody Sunday."
What is Selma?
Name the attorney who represented the NAACP in Brown v. Board of Education and later became a Supreme Court Justice.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
This constitutional amendment guaranteed equal protection under the law for all U.S. citizens.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Which component of the IB History course requires students to conduct an independent historical investigation on a topic of their choice?
What is the Internal Assessment (IA)?