African Americans civil rights (1960s early 1970s)

Question 1

What three groups became known as the civil rights movement?

Answer 1

.SCLC
.SNCC
.CORE

Question 2

What year did the sit ins take place?

Answer 2

1960

Question 3

By the end of 1960 how many cities were lunch counters desegregated in?

Answer 3

126

Question 4

What year were the freedom rides?

Answer 4

1961

Question 5

What group organised the freedom rides?

Answer 5

CORE

Question 6

What group spread the sit ins to other towns and cities

Answer 6

SNCC

Question 7

What were the freedom rides?

Answer 7

White and Black activists would sit next to each other on segregated buses

Question 8

What year did the march on Washington occur?

Answer 8

1963

Question 9

How many blacks took part in the march on Washington?

Answer 9

200,000

Question 10

How many whites took place in the march on Washington?

Answer 10

50,000

Question 11

After the freedom rides, sit ins and march on Washington what act was passed and in what year?

Answer 11

Civil rights act 1964

Question 12

What did the civil rights act 1964 end in the south?

Answer 12

Segregation

Question 13

What was the focus of SELMA?

Answer 13

To give black people equal rights to vote

Question 14

In 1965 what was the size of the black population that were eligible to vote?

Answer 14

15,000

Question 15

Out of the 15,000 black population that were able to vote how many were registered to vote?

Answer 15

335

Question 16

When was the voting rights act passed through?

Answer 16

1965

Question 17

What did the Voting Rights act end?

Answer 17

.Ended all tests and discrimination against people trying to vote

Question 18

In what year was Malcolm X killed?

Answer 18

1965

Question 19

The SNCC came more radical. after 1966 under what leader?

Answer 19

Stokely Carmichael

Question 20

What did Stokely Carmichael believe in?

Answer 20

‘Black Power’

Question 21

When did the race riots take place?

Answer 21

1965-1967

Question 22

Where did the race riots take place?

Answer 22

Washington and LA

Question 23

How many Black Panther members were there?

Answer 23

2,000

Question 24

Name two positives of Black Power

Answer 24

.Raised awareness of issues of social and economic inequality outside of the south(In northern slums and ghettos)
.Black Panthers and Nation of Islam ran welfare projects helping the poorest blacks(food/shelter)
.Encouraged the study of black history in schools and universities

Question 25

Name two negative impacts of the black power movement

Answer 25

.Alienated white support
.Alienated government support
.Broke up the unity of the civil rights movement
.Did little to solve the problems of poverty and discrimination in the North

Question 26

Give two of MLKs successes

Answer 26

.Leading Montgomery bus boycotts
.Non-Violent protest
.I have a dream speech put pressure on government to pass the 1964 civil rights bill
.Selam protest helped put pressure on government to pass the voting rights bill

Question 27

Give two of MLKs failures

Answer 27

.MLK’s focus on the south meant blacks in the north were left unimpressed by MLK
.After 1965 MLK less successful in creating social and economic change in the North
.After 1965 unit of the CR movement disintegrated
.By 1967/1968 MLK was criticising Vietnam war which lost him support from whites and government