Question

1. What was the major tactic of the early civil rights movement? How did it generate public support for the movement?

2. What events helped expand legislation on civil rights and voting rights?


3. How was African American frustration expressed in the late 1960s?


4. What other civil rights movements were inspired by the African American civil rights movement?

Answer 1

By the 1960s, decades of racial, economic, and political forces, which generated inner city poverty, resulted in race riots within minority areas in cities across the United States. The beating and rumored death of cab driver John Smith by police, sparked the 1967 Newark riots.