Schultz/APUSH Name:_________________________________ March 15, 2015 Zinn Chapter 17: Or Does it Explode? Please answer the following questions on a separate sheet of paper. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. How does Countee Cullen’s poem “Incident” capture the complex and indelible psychological impact of racism? Why were many whites surprised by the black revolt of the 1950’s and 1960’s? Why did Herndon join the Communist Party? For what action(s) did he spend five years in prison? Why did Truman and his advisers feel a need to “act on the race question” immediately following WWII? What evidence exists to support Zinn’s answer to this question? What actions did Truman’s administration take “on the race question”? What actions did they not take? What were the successful tactics and tools used in the Montgomery boycott that were used in similarly successive struggles? What was the key strategy that King contributed to the civil rights movement of the 1950’s and 1960’s? What event led to sit-ins in 15 cities and 5 states? What was the purpose of the sit-ins? What was the goal of the Freedom Riders? How were they able to achieve that goal? What are the differences and similarities between SNCC and the IWW? Consider the following when answering: goals, tactics, strategies, tools, media response, government response, membership, degree of success. Compare the degree of success or failure of the civil rights movement and the Populist movement. Consider: legislation passed, effectiveness of legislation, difference between stated goals and accomplished goals, effect on the dominant culture of the U.S. How did the Voting Rights Law of 1965 differ from previous laws? Why did the U.S. government choose to enforce voting to the exclusion of other means to end racism in the U.S.? Why did the U.S. government later choose busing as another area to enforce? What laws were on the books by the end of the 1960’s that were not being enforced by the government? What compromises did civil rights leaders make in order to have federal approve of the 1963 March on Washington? Why do you think they felt that federal approval was worth such compromises? What do you think Zinn means by this: “…but voting was not a fundamental solution to racism or poverty”? How did the National Advisory Committee on Urban Disorders explain the explosion of violence that followed the Watts riot of 1965? Why did King speak out against the war in Vietnam? Why did he not speak out against the war earlier than he did? How did the government respond to King’s shift in focus from civil rights to poverty? How can one explain the government’s response? Judge Harold Cox exonerated the police who killed two students at Jackson State College by declaring that those who participated in protest demonstrations “must expect to be injured or killed.” Why is it important for the government to have such a principle established? What were the goals of “black capitalists”? What strategies did they adopt to achieve these goals? In 1977, what percentage of elective offices were held by blacks in the South? Did this represent progress? Progress toward what goal? Whose goal? How was “busing” an “ingenious concession to protest”? Did it contribute to deferring the dream?