Questions: Chapter 28

1. Trace the history of the civil rights movement from the Brown v. Board of Education decision to the March on Washington. Note important events and leading personalities as you go. Offer a concluding assessment of the importance of the leadership of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Brown v. Board of Education, 1954: desegregated schools
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955–1956- MLK Jr.
Little Rock 9- 1957
Sit-ins, 1960
Freedom Rides, 1961, John Lewi, Charles McDew; Bernard Lafayette; Charles Jones; Lonnie King; Julian Bonds, Stokey Carmichael
Voter Registration Organizing- Amzie Moore, Aaron Henry, Medgar Evers
Integration of Mississippi Universities, 1956-1965- Clyde Kennard
Albany Movement, 1961-1962-
Birmingham campaign, 1963-1964
March on Washington, 1963
Dr, Martin Luther King was invaluable to the movement, inspiring as well as providing the most effective protest method-- nonviolent noncooperation.


2. Argue for or against this statement: Dwight Eisenhower was a great president. Support your position with a complete analyses of his policies and achievements, noting both foreign-polic and domestic issues.
I feel he was a good president, he oversaw the cease-fire of the Korean War, kept up the pressure on the Soviet Union during the Cold War, made nuclear weapons a higher defense priority, launched the Space Race, enlarged the Social Security program, and began the Interstate Highway System. He had the american people in mind with all of his actions.


3. Trace the course of America's policy, both private and public, toward Vietnam from 1954 to 1963. Who do you think deserves greater blame for escalating the war, Kennedy or Eisenhower? Explain your response.
Eisenhower made American participation contingent on British support, and because they didn't support Vietn War, he became convinced that the political risks outweighed the possible benefits, Eisenhower decided against the intervention. The Republic of Vietnam was created largely because of the Eisenhower administration's desire for an anti-communist state in the region, who coined the domino theory. I believe the Gulf of Tonkin initiative was reason enough to stat Eisenhower was more to blame than Kennedy in escalating war efforts.


4. "John F. Kennedy is the most overrated president in American history." Discuss whether you agree or disagree with this statement, with reference to the events and policies of his presidency.
I do not agree with this statement. During his presidency, Kennedy dealt handily with the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the building of the Berlin Wall, the Space Race, the African American Civil Rights Movement and early events of the Vietnam War. Furthermore, were he not as renound for his accomplishment he would not have been reelected, nor would he have been assassinated on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas. ...Read more