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Unit 12 – The Civil Rights Movement, Vietnam, and Counterculture (1945 – 1974) Chapters 28 – 29 (p. 1004 – 1091) Instructions: Please write out your answers for the short answer questions on one paper. Define the vocabulary terms Cornell style 2 – 3 sentences per term. Chapter 28 – The Civil Rights Movement (1945 – 1966) p. 1004 – 1047 Brown v. Board of Education (1014) Civil Rights Act, 1964 (1029) CORE (1010) EEOC (1029) Medgar Evers (1027) Freedom Riders (1022) Freedom Summer (1029) Greensboro Sit-in (1018) Immigration and Nationality Act (1040) Jones Act (1037) Martin Luther King, Jr. (1008, 1016) Letter from Birmingham Jail (1025) Little Rock Nine (1015-1016) Malcolm X (1031) March to Selma (1034) Mendez v. Westminster (1035) James Meredith (1024) Montgomery Bus Boycott (1008) Morgan v. Virginia (1011) Nation of Islam (1032) Rosa Parks (1008) Jackie Robinson (1011) Scottsboro Boys (--) SCLC (1017) Southern Manifesto (1015) SNCC (1020, 1070) Termination policy (1039) Emmett Till (--) United States v. Wheeler (1039) Voting Rights Act, 1965 (1035) George Wallace (1026, 1079) Earl Warren (1014) 1. What were the key legal and political antecedents to the civil rights struggle in the 1940s and early 1950s? What organizations played the most central role? Which tactics continued to be used, and which were abandoned? 2. How did African American communities challenge legal segregation in the South? Compare the strategies of key organizations, such as the NAACP, SNCC, SCLC, and CORE. 3. Discuss the varieties of white resistance to the civil rights movement. Which were most effective in slowing the drive for equality? 4. Analyze the civil rights movement’s complex relationship with the national Democratic Party between 1948 and 1964. How was the party transformed by its association with the movement? What political gains and losses did that association entail? 5. What legal and institutional impact did the movement have on American life? How did it change Am