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Questions

1. What did he believe regarding the Brown ruling? What did he and his Attorney General want the Supreme Court to do, and what was the result?

2. What did Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka say about the Plessy ruling in 1896?

3. What did Brown v. Board of Education II say about the timeline of desegregating schools? Why did this frustrate President Eisenhower?

4. What happened in Little Rock, Arkansas? After 60 years of segregation and legalized Jim Crow (Due to Plessy v. Ferguson), how did people feel about desegregation?

5. What do you think President Eisenhower meant when he said the following:

Brown v. Board of Education and the subsequent enforcement of the ruling by President Eisenhower was the first step toward changing people's hearts and minds. Do you agree? Why was this the case, or not? Explain. (Think about the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, including the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments)

6. Is Brinkley's Unfinished Nation textbook's assessment of President Eisenhower regarding civil rights accurate? Why or why not?

7. Explain what you think he meant when he encouraged these things. What was his ultimate goal for the United States?

8. In the "I Have a Dream" speech, Martin Luther King, Jr. begins with an invocation of Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation. Why do you think he does this?

9. In the "I Have a Dream" speech: Why is the Declaration of Independence essential, and what does he means when he says, "[W]e've come to our nation's capital to cash a check."?

10. In the "I Have a Dream" speech: What groups of people do Martin Luther King Jr. say are included in the promises made by the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution?

11. Why do you think he encouraged the use of nonviolence, and how did enduring physical and verbal abuses help to win other people over to the cause of Civil Rights when they saw it on television?

12. Over time more non-African Americans began to support Civil Rights. What impact do you think the non-violent protests and television played in the change of attitude by many people who didn't live in the South?

13. How does this reflect growing changes to attitudes of a broader range of Americans toward paying more attention to Civil Rights and what during the late 1900s was considered a "Southern Problem"?

14. What are the lessons that we can learn from Martin Luther King Jr.?

15. What role should the Declaration of Independence play in resolving ongoing issues in American society?