Sunday, January 13, 2008

Chapter 29 Section 2 Guided Reading

1) What was the goal of the freedom riders? The goal of the freedom riders was to test the Supreme Court decision banning segregated seating in bus terminals by riding the buses across the South in hopes of getting a violent reaction out of whites in order to convince the Kennedy administration to enforce the law.

2) What was the Kennedy Administration's response?
President Kennedy arranged to give the freedom riders direct support, sending 400 U.S. marshals to protect the riders. The ICC and the attorney general also banned segregation in all interstate travel facilities.

3) What was the goal of the march on Washington?
They demanded the immediate passage of a civil rights bill that guaranteed equal access to all public accommodations and ave the attorney general the right to file desegregation suits in schools.

4) Who attended the march?
Martin Luther King, Jr. and 250,000 people, including 75,000 whites.

5) What was the goal of the Freedom Summer project?
To get national publicity which would influence Congress to pass a voting rights act.

6) Who volunteered for the project?
Mostly white College students 1/3 of whom were female, volunteered and were trained in nonviolent resistance.

7) What did the role of the violence shown on television play in the march from Selma to Montgomery?
The violence horrified viewers and caused hundreds of protesters to come to Selma, and caused President Lyndon Johnson to present a voting rights act to Congress. The march continued with federal protection and there were 25,000 marchers.

8) What did the march encourage President Johnson to do?
He presented a new voting rights act to Congress and asked for it to be passed quickly.

9) What did the Voting Rights Act outlaw?
It outlawed the literary tests that had disqualified many voters, and stated that federal examiners could enroll voters who had been denied the right to vote by local officials.

10) What did the law accomplish?
It caused many more African Americans to become registered voters; for example, the number of African Americans registered to vote in Selma rose from 10% to 60%, and the number of registered African American voters in the South tripled.

Chapter 31 Section 2 Guided Reading

A) How did each of the following create or advance the women's rights movement?

1) Experiences in the workplace:
Between 1950 and 1960, the number of women working for wages increased by 40%, but they were paid far less, and this was mostly ignored. President Kennedy appointed the presidential Commission on the Status of Women , which reported that women were paid far less than men on the same jobs, they were rarely appointed to managerial positions, regardless of education, experience, and ability. This showed women just how unequal they were to men in society.

2) Experiences in social activism:
In many anti-war and civil rights groups, men were in charge of the activities, and women were given smaller roles, and were ignored by men when they protested this.

3) "Consciousness raising":
Women got together to discuss their concerns such as the one mentioned in the above question. They talked about their lives together and discovered that many women had the same problems such as issues with sexism and gender discrimination.

4) Feminism:
The belief that women should be economically, socially, and politically equal to men. It became popular in the 1960s.

5) Betty Friedan and The Feminine Mystique:
A book that captured many of the reasons that women were dissatisfied with their lives, and helped to make women motivated to work together to improve their situation.

6) Civil Rights Act of 1964:
Prohibited discrimination based on race, religion, national origin, and gender. Created the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to handle discrimination claims.

7) National Organization for Women (NOW):
Pushed for the creation of child-care facilities that would allow mothers to get jobs and education, pressured the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to more thoroughly enforce the ban on gender discrimination when hiring. Caused the EEOC to declare sex-segregation job ads illegal and made it so that employers could not refuse to hire women for traditionally male jobs.

8) Gloria Steinem and Ms. magazine:
Helped to found the National Women's Political Caucus. Created the magazine Ms. which treated contemporary issues from the feminist perspective.

9) Congress:
Passed a ban on gender discrimination in any educational program or activity receiving federal financial assistance. This resulted in several all-male colleges becoming open to women. Congress also expanded the powers of the EEOC and gave working parents a tax break for child care expenses.

10) Supreme Court: Ruled in Roe v. Wade that women had the right to have an abortion during the first 3 months of pregnancy.

B) The Equal Rights Amendment would have guaranteed equal rights under the law, regardless of gender. Who opposed this? Why?

Who?
Conservative religious groups, political organizations, anti-feminists and conservative Phyllis Schlafly.

Why?
They felt that the passage of the ERA would lead to the drafting of women, the end of laws protecting homemakers, the end of the husband's responsibility to provide for his family, and same sex marriage.

Chapter 29 Section 1 Guided Reading

1) What did the Civil Rights Act of 1875 do? It outlawed segregation in public facilities. it said 'all persons shall be entitled to the full and equal enjoyment of the accommodations of inns, public conveyances on land or water, theaters, and other places of public amusement." It was declared unconstitutional in 1883.

2) How did the court rule in Plessy?
It ruled that the laws being set by Louisiana that required that there be "equal but separate" facilities in railroads did not violate the 14th Amendment.

3) In what 3 ways did WWII help set the stage for the civil rights movement?
a.
The soldiers that were needed for battle created large amount of jobs that were filled by African Americans, Latinos and women.
b. So many soldiers were needed that the armed forces had to abandon their discrimination policies, and nearly 1 million African Americans served.
c. Civil rights groups campaigned for African American voting rights and the ending of "Jim Crow" laws during the war, in response to which FDR issued an order prohibiting racial discrimination by federal agencies.

4) Who argued Brown's case?
Brown's case was argued by Thurgood Marshall, and African American lawyer.

5) What did the Brown ruling declare?
It declared that segregation in schools was unconstitutional and violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

6) What organization was started to support Rosa Parks?
The Montgomery Improvement Association.

7) What did it do?
It organized the bus boycott that followed Parks' arrest.

8) How did President Eisenhower respond to the crisis in Little Rock?
He put the Arkansas national guard under federal control and ordered 1000 men into Little Rock. The students attended their classes under the watch of soldiers.

9) Who was the president of the SCLC?
Martin Luther King.

10) What was the SCLC's purpose?
It nonviolently combated segregation and "second-class citizenship."

11)What did the SNCC accomplish, and how?
The SNCC helped to raise awareness about their cause and started to convince people that African Americans deserved equal treatment by protesting. They staged a number of "sit-ins" in which they sat down at whites-only lunch counters, and picketed outside of chain stores that had segregated lunch counters.