Primary and Secondary Sources
The main reason why historians prefer primary sources:
What is first hand evidence?
This case overturned segregation in public schools in 1954.
What was Brown v Board of Education?
This type of protest requires that protesters occupy a space (sitting down if needed) and refuse to move until their request is honored or they are forcibly removed.
What is a sit-in?
This civil rights leader was an alternative to the non violent methods of King, the SCLC, and SNCC. He advocated that Blacks needed to "use any means necessary" to achieve equality and justice.
Who was Malcolm X?
Leader of the United Farm Workers
Who was Cesar Chavez?
A secondary source is something that?
Was written years after the event.
This 1896 Supreme Court case allowed legal segregation in schools and public facilities throughout the South. Brown v Board of Education cancelled it in 1954
What was Plessy v Ferguson?
This is a form of non violent protest where protesters refuse to buy goods or services from a company because they do not agree with a policy that company has.
What is a boycott?
This organization was formed in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale to protect black communities from police brutality at first.
This was the "spark" that led to stronger activism for the LGBTQIA+ community.
What is the Stonewall Uprising?
This limitation of a primary source shows only one point of view.
What is bias?
This group of African American students were the first to attend the formerly all white Central High School in 1957.
Who were the Little Rock 9?
This law was passed in 1965 following the actions of the March on Selma and the Mississippi Summer.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
This change in the Civil Rights movement strayed away from non violence to self defense and self sufficiency within the Black community.
What is the Black Power movement?
These are two of the non violent tactics used by the United Farm Workers
What are:
Boycotts, Strikes, Hunger Strikes, marches
This is a limitation of using a photograph as a source to prove a claim:
What is Context
This action to enforce Brown v Board of Education done by President Eisenhower, allowed African American students to attend Central High School in 1957-58
What was the use of Federal Troops in Little Rock?
This event was planned by Black and white students who travelled to the deep South to help African Americans register to vote even though it was extremely dangerous to do so.
What was Freedom Summer, or Mississippi Summer?
The violent death of this leader led to widespread riots in American cities including Detroit, Washington DC, and Baltimore.
This was the plan created by President Lyndon Johnson that was designed to help all Americans.
What was the Great Society?
The act of checking multiple sources to verify a claim.
What is corroboration?
This event led by a young Martin Luther King, was started because of Rosa Park's arrest in December of 1955.
What was the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
The Freedom Rides were supposed to this:
What is desegregate the interstate bus system.
The murder of someone based on race, usually conducted through hanging.
What is Lynching
These two programs were to assist Americans by providing healthcare.
What is Medicare and Medicaid?