Select an example of colonization in the modern period (1600–present), and provide 1 positive and 1negative outcome for each.
What is significant in terms of civil rights about the 2013 Supreme Court Ruling called Shelby County v. Holder?
How did international press attention influence the passage of civil rights laws?
What images influenced President Kennedy to act on civil rights?
In May 1963, civil rights leaders met in New York City with Attorney General Robert Kennedy. What message did they give the president’s brother about the pace of federal government response to racial inequality? What was Robert Kennedy’s response?
In 1958, civil rights leaders, including A. Philip Randolph and Martin Luther King, Jr., met with President Eisenhower. What did they advise him to do about U.S. racial inequality? What was Eisenhower’s response?
What white composer in the mid-1930s used a story about African Americans as the basis for his operaPorgy & Bess?
What filmmaker portrayed African Americans as modern and outside of the Jim Crow stereotypes so prevalent in this era?
After the Civil War, to keep African Americans afraid and “in their place,” what did racist whites in the South do on average once every three or four days?