9. Civil Rights Movement

Question 1

Amendment that freed all slaves

Answer 1

13th Amendment

Question 2

Amendment that granted citizenship to all persons “born or naturalized & provided all citizens with “equal protection under the laws,”

Answer 2

14th Amendment

Question 3

Amendment that granted African American MEN the right to vote

Answer 3

15th Amendment

Question 4

Southern race laws that encouraged segregation and discrimination against African Americans.

Answer 4

Jim Crow Laws

Question 5

Techniques to prevent African Americans from voting

Answer 5

1. Poll Taxes
2. Literacy tests
3. Grandfather Clause-if your grandfather could vote before 1867, then you can vote

Question 6

Supreme Court decision that upheld segregation and said that “separate but equal” facilities were legal.

Answer 6

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

Question 7

1. Early civil rights leader and co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) (PHd. from Harvard)
2. Pushed for equality now

Answer 7

W.E.B. Du Bois

Question 8

This early Civil Rights activist believed African Americans should achieve economic independence before social equality.

Answer 8

Booker T. Washington

Question 9

Supreme Court case that broke down “Separate but Equal Laws” (segregation was illegal)

Answer 9

1954 - Brown v Board of Education

Question 10

1. It started with Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat
2. Last 11 months-Supreme Court ordered Montgomery to integrate busses

Answer 10

1955 - Montgomery Bus Boycott

Question 11

1. Tries to integrate Central HS in Little Rock Ark.
2. The governor sent troops in to PREVENT students from joining
3. Pres. Eisenhower sent troops to PROTECT students

Answer 11

1957 - Little Rock 9

Question 12

1st student to integrate a school in New Orleans

Answer 12

1960 - Ruby Bridges

Question 13

1. Famous “I have a dream” Speech by Martin Luther King Jr.
2. Will help push through laws to protect voting and integration

Answer 13

1963 - March on Washington

Question 14

Made discrimination based on race, religion, or national origin in public places illegal and required employers to hire on an equal opportunity basis.

Answer 14

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Question 15

1. signed by LBJ to uphold the 15th Amendment.
2. No Jim Crow laws for voting (literacy tests, grandfather clause, ect.)
3. Reduced voter discrimination at polling sites

Answer 15

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Question 16

1. Civil Rights leader from the 1950s – 1960s
2. Organize the Montgomery bus boycott to protest segregation.

Answer 16

Martin Luther King Jr.

Question 17

1. Black Muslim leader who argued for separation, not integration,
2. Influenced the Black Power movement

Answer 17

Malcolm X

Question 18

She refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. After she was jailed, the Montgomery bus boycott was organized.

Answer 18

Rosa Parks

Question 19

She was the first African American woman in Congress (1968)

Answer 19

Shirley Chisholm

Question 20

1. 1st African American Supreme Court Justice (1967)
2. Leading lawyer in Brown v. Board of Education Case

Answer 20

Thurgood Marshall

Question 21

1. Leader of the Black Panther Party
2. Provided community-based initiatives - which included free meals for children and health clinics.
3. Militant action to protect neighborhoods against police brutality

Answer 21

Huey P. Newton

Question 22

1. Was an American farm worker, labor leader and civil rights activist.
2. He pushed for greater rights for migrant farm workers.
3. Organized boycotts for migrant workers

Answer 22

Cesar Chavez

Question 23

1. California teacher who fought for farm worker’s rights
2. Secured disability insurance for farm workers
3. Directed a national grape boycott to protest the dangers of pesticides for farm workers

Answer 23

Dolores Huerta

Question 24

This group wanted to obtain fair wages & improve labor conditions for migrant workers

Answer 24

United Farm Workers