18.2: The Movement Gains Ground

Chapter 18 Section 2: The Movement Gains Ground

• Protesting Segregation (p.590): How would you describe the atmosphere at this lunch counter?
• Checkpoint (p.591): How did young people energize the civil rights movement in the 1960s?
• Thinking Critically (p.591): #1 & 2
• Checkpoint (p.592): What did the freedom rides accomplish?
• Checkpoint (p.593): How did James Meredith and Martin Luther King Jr. prompt President Kennedy to promote civil rights?
• Checkpoint (p.595): What is considered the highlight of the March on Washington?
• Thinking Critically (p.595): Why was the March on Washington a symbolic and appropriate choice for a civil rights demonstration?
• Checkpoint (p.596): How did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 try to end discrimination?
• Section 2 Assessment: 4, 5, 6
• Thinking Critically (p.597): #1 & 2
• Thinking Critically (p.599): #1 & 2