Ch. 27

Question 1

Life under Jim Crow

Answer 1

African Americans were still segregated and could not eat in restaurants patronized by whites or use the same waiting room at bus stations.

Question 2

A Philip Randolph

Answer 2

leader in african american civil rights movement

Question 3

Double V

Answer 3

african americans were trying to be treated as equals and this campain was to get a double victory for racism at home and abroad.

Question 4

CORE

Answer 4

Congress of Racial Equality

Question 5

Jackie Robinson

Answer 5

colored baseball player who played for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947

Question 6

Great Migration effects on Northern politics

Answer 6

increased the political cause of black migration.

Question 7

Mexican American Challenges & Mendez v. Westminster School District

Answer 7

because mexican children were being forced to be moved to a mexican school only

Question 8

Thurgood Marshall

Answer 8

Thurgood Marshall was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving from October 1967 until October 1991. Marshall was the Court’s 96th justice and its first African-American justice

Question 9

Brown v Board of Education

Answer 9

United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional

Question 10

Southern reactions

Answer 10

enraged

Question 11

Emmett Till and his case

Answer 11

he was visiting family and seen talking to a white man in a grocery store which led to him being tortured and murdered.

Question 12

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Answer 12

n 1956, the Supreme Court voted to end segregated busing. In 1955, a little-known minister named Martin Luther King Jr. led the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery.

Question 13

SCLC

Answer 13

The Southern Christian Leadership Conference,

Question 14

Sit-ins in Greensboro

Answer 14

4 african american college student sat in the whites only section of the counter and wouldn’t leave until they were served also.

Question 15

SNCC

Answer 15

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, It emerged from a student meeting organized by Ella Baker held at Shaw University in April 1960.

Question 16

Freedom Rides

Answer 16

civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 and following years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme

Question 17

March on Washington

Answer 17

civil rights movement where they had “freedom buses” and “freedom trains” ad all just car pooled

Question 18

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Answer 18

law that was about civil rights movement by making discrimination in employment, education, and public accomodations illegal.

Question 19

Freedom Summer

Answer 19

attempt to register as many african americans as possible so they could vote in Mississippi.

Question 20

Selma March

Answer 20

the march in Selma, Alabama to the state capital, Montgomery to protest the murder of a voting rights activist

Question 21

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Answer 21

outlawed the literacy test and other devices that prevented African Americans from registering to vote, and at least 50% to vote.

Question 22

24th Amendment

Answer 22

The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President

Question 23

Black nationalism and the Nation of Islam

Answer 23

BN: emphasized black racial pride
NI: religion founded in the united states that became a leading source of black nationalist thought in the 1960s

Question 24

Malcolm X

Answer 24

n American Muslim minister and human rights activist.

Question 25

Stokely Carmichael

Answer 25

as a Trinidadian-American revolutionary active in the Civil Rights Movement, and later, the global Pan-African movement

Question 26

Black Panthers

Answer 26

a militant organization dedicated to protecting African Americans from police violence, took their cue from Malcolm X

Question 27

Watts Riots, Detroit riots of 1967

Answer 27

alienated whites

Question 28

Kerner Commission Report

Answer 28

the most honest and forthright government document about race, it shut out the white dominated society.

Question 29

Event of April 4th, 1968

Answer 29

MARTIN LUTHER KING WAS ASSASSINATED!!!!

Question 30

Cesar Chavez and the UFW

Answer 30

mexican american civil rights and social justice activists.

UFW was aunion primarily Mexican American aricultural laborers in cali.

Question 31

Chicanos

Answer 31

term to describe “mexican american”, later organized a political party to promote Chicanos interests.

Question 32

American Indian Movement

Answer 32

Organization established in 1968 to address the problems Indians faces in American cities including poverty and police harassment.