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Viewing Q's for Eyes on the Prize

Viewing Q's for Eyes on the Prize

Q Viewing questions for Eyes on the Prize: Fighting Back Name: 1. What does it mean to have equal treatment (in a perfect world)? What did the Supreme Court decide that it meant? 2. How was segregation bound up in the “culture” or “heritage” of the South? 3. How was violence and the threat of violence used to oppress Blacks? 4. What did “gradualism” seem to mean in theory and practice when it came to desegregating the schools? 5. How do you think the expectation and anticipation of violence and rioting figured into the actuality?

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Equal treatment in a perfect world would be devoid of any segregation or discrimination based on caste creed and color. The notion of "separate but equal" was found illegal by the United States Supreme Court. The verdicts had far-reaching consequences; campaigners regarded them as the first move toward integration, and yet many white Southerners saw them as an encroachment on their states' sovereignty (Fighting back 1957–1962: Eyes on the prize—America’s Civil Rights Movement 1954–1985, 1994).