1.) Who was Emmet Till? What happened to him?
2.) What was the Montgomery Improvement Association? What did it accomplish?
3.) Why do you think students would risk so much for the right to sit at an integrated lunch counter?
4.) Why didn’t the non-violent approach work in Albany?
5.) Why did the Birmingham civil rights movement use children for demosntratrions. Do you think they should have? Why or why not?
6.) Who was Malcolm X? How did his viewpoint differ from most Civil Rights leaders?
7.) Who was Medgar Evers? What happened to him?
8.) How were Blacks kept from voting in the South and, in particular, in Mississippi?
9.) Who were Schwerner, Goodman and Cheney? What happened to them?
10.) What was the Mississppi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP)? Why was it created?
11.) What changed between 1963 and 1965, that made hundreds of Blacks participate?