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A Time of Turmoil and Change

A Time of Turmoil and Change. The Beginnings of the Civil Rights Movement in North Carolina. #1. Blair, McCain, McNeil, and Richmond were not served at Woolworth’s in the 1960s because they were African American students. TRUE. #2.

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A Time of Turmoil and Change

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  1. A Time of Turmoil and Change The Beginnings of the Civil Rights Movement in North Carolina

  2. #1 • Blair, McCain, McNeil, and Richmond were not served at Woolworth’s in the 1960s because they were African American students. • TRUE

  3. #2 • Word of the sit-in at Woolworth’s spread quickly and the next day, 25 students arrived at Woolworth’s. • TRUE

  4. #3 • African Americans and several white women participated in the sit-ins in Greensboro on February 3, 1960. • TRUE

  5. #4 • After the Greensboro sit-in, protests spread to communities across the South. • TRUE

  6. #5 • A new generation of young Americans would challenge the nation’s social and political status quo. • Status Quo- Leaving things the way they are. (Not changing) • TRUE

  7. #6 • The gap between the promise of inequality and discrimination was especially evident to young African Americans. • TRUE

  8. #7 • The 1960s and the early 1970s were not only a period of prosperity as the economy grew, technology advanced, and the United States became a powerful influential nation, but also an era of protest against poverty, racial inequality, foreign policy and other issues. • TRUE

  9. #8 • By the end of 1960, 50,000 people had participated in sit-ins and civil rights demonstrations around the South. • TRUE

  10. #9 • Members of SNCC played a major role in the civil rights movement and were especially active in Mississippi, the most dangerous state for civil rights workers. • Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee “Snick” • TRUE

  11. #10 • The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was an example of student activism. • TRUE

  12. #11 • Nonviolent civil disobedience was a way of resisting the laws without violence. • TRUE

  13. #12 • Sit-ins were examples of nonviolent civil disobedience. • TRUE

  14. #13 • The purpose of the sit-ins was to make people more aware of racial inequality and to force leaders to end unjust practices. • TRUE

  15. #14 • Political leaders did not want racial conflict to adversely affect the economy of North Carolina. • TRUE

  16. #15 • Leaders in North Carolina could be characterized as moderates. • TRUE

  17. #16 • Moderate Terry Sanford was elected as North Carolina’s governor, and John F. Kennedy, a liberal, was elected President. • TRUE

  18. #17 • Moderate leaders promoted some change if it could be accomplished quietly, peacefully, and cooperatively. • TRUE

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