chapter 21

Question 1

Thurgood marshall

Answer 1

led the legal challenge against segregation

Question 2

brown vs. board of education

Answer 2

court case in which segregated schools were ruled unconstitutional

Question 3

rosa parks

Answer 3

helped start Montgomery bus boycott

Question 4

martin luther king jr

Answer 4

leader of the civil rights movement

Question 5

SCLC

Answer 5

civil rights organization

Question 6

SNCC

Answer 6

civil rights organization formed by students

Question 7

sit-in

Answer 7

blacks occupied whites-only seats at lunch counters

Question 8

freedom riders

Answer 8

civil rights activists who tried to end segregation on national buses

Question 9

james Meredith

Answer 9

AA who won enrollment to the all-white University of Mississippi

Question 10

civil rights act of 1964

Answer 10

law that outlawed racial discrimination

Question 11

freedom summer

Answer 11

win voting rights for southern blacks

Question 12

fannie lou hamer

Answer 12

prominent voting rights activist

Question 13

voting rights act of 1965

Answer 13

struck down state laws intended to keep blacks from voting

Question 14

de facto segregation

Answer 14

segregation by custom or practice

Question 15

de jure segregation

Answer 15

segregation by law

Question 16

Malcolm X

Answer 16

AA civil rights leader

Question 17

Nation of Islam

Answer 17

group headed by Elijah Muhammed

Question 18

Stokely Carmichael

Answer 18

leader of black power movement

Question 19

Black power

Answer 19

movement that stressed black pride

Question 20

black panthers

Answer 20

AA group founded to combat police brutality

Question 21

Kerner Commission

Answer 21

commission that reported on race relations in America

Question 22

civil rights act of 1968

Answer 22

banned discrimination in housing

Question 23

affirmative action

Answer 23

program aimed at hiring or including minorities