21H.102: The Emergence of Modern America
Study Questions for Week of Nov. 15

Readings:
Martin Luther King Jr. biography in Nash and Graves, From These Beginnings; Chapter 28 in American People

Questions:
1. What were the consequences of the Brown v. Board decision?

2. How did Martin Luther King's religious training affect his ideas about race in American society?

3. What were King's methods of protesting racial discrimination?

4. What were Malcolm X's methods?

5. How did events in Alabama and Washington in 1963 accelerate the civil rights movement?

6. How were the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 different from previous legislation?

7. How did race riots and King's assassination affect the civil rights movement?

8. Why were there so many political movements, protests, and violent incidents in the 1960s?

9. What kind of a society was LBJ's Great Society?

10. Was it great?