Unit 8: The Modern State and the Age of Liberalism, 1945-1980
Chapter 27: Walking into Freedom Land: The Civil Rights Movement, 1941-1973
Guiding Questions and Identifications
1. How are the 1960s a turning point in American society?
2. How do you explain the rise of the protest movement after 1955? How did nonviolent tactics help
the movement?
3. Explain the different approaches to civil rights by Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. How are
they related? Is one more important than the other? In the timeline of civil rights, what are earlier
examples of the disagreement over the use of violence or extreme measures vs. peaceful tactics?
4. How did the civil rights movement create a crisis in liberalism and in the Democratic Party?
5. How did the civil rights movement and other activist groups cause changes to society and to
government, including the growth of power held by the federal government over the states?
Identifications:
27.1 The Emerging Civil Rights Struggle, 1941-1957
rights liberalism
CORE
Jim Crow
Brother of Sleeping Car Porters
A. Philip Randolph
James Farmer
“To Secure These Rights”
Cesar Chavez
Dolores Huerta
Thurgood Marshall
American GI Forum
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
27.2 Forging a Protest Movement, 1955-1965
Rosa Parks
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
March on Washington
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
Voting Rights of 1965
27.3 Beyond Civil Rights, 1966-1973
Malcolm X
Stokely Carmichael
black nationalism
Nation of Islam
Black Panther Party
Young Lords Organization
United Farm Workers
American Indian Movement