17: Or Does it Explode? Flashcards
Name the driving force behind the US’ need to implement civil rights legislation under Harry Truman
Their international rights record was “an issue in world politics”, needed to counter accusations from communists that they were oppressive
In 1965, ten years after the Supreme Court ruled against segregation in Brown v. Board of Education, what percentage of the school districts in the South remained segregated?
75%
What event set off the black rebellion in 1955?
Rosa Parks’ decision to refuse to segregate on the city bus in Montgomery, Alabama
This attorney general agreed to let Freedom Riders be arrested in Jackson, Mississippi in return for assurance of their safety (he was perhaps afraid of the image of violent assault against the protesters)
Robert Kennedy
When transcripts of testimonies from black Mississippians and lawyers speaking of violence and the federal right to intervene were given to President Johnson and AG Robert Kennedy, what did they do?
No response, protesters were murdered soon after
Mississipi DNC leadership denied black Mississippians what request
To be state delegates and represent the state’s 40% black population
President Johnson passed this legislation in 1965
Voting Rights Law (significantly increased black turnout)
Malcolm X said that the March on Washington was taken over by pacifists and moderate black leader installed by who
The federal government
White House advisor Arthur Schlesinger writes that (re: March on Washington) “The conference with the President did persuade the civil rights leaders that they should not ___ ______ to Capitol Hill”
Lay siege
Watts, LA, erupted in the most _______ urban outbreak since WWII in 1965”
Violent (34 dead, 4,000 arrested)
With what did Congress respond to the riots of 1967?
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
The offences detailed in the 1968 Civil Rights Act did not apply to these groups of people (bonus: what did the act criminalize vis-a-vis travel)
Law enforcement officers, the National Guard, or members of the Armed Forces, who are engaged in suppressing a riot or civil disturbance (bonus: traveling interstate to organize, promote, or carry out a riot)
Describe the first person prosecuted under the Civil Rights Act?
A young black leader who made a speech in Maryland before a disturbance
Who did the police murder in their bed on December 4th, 1969
Black Panther leader Fred Hampton
What was the name of the FBI project from 1956-1971 that took 295 actions against black groups?
COINTELPRO
