Civil Rights

Question 1

The first organized movement by African Americans to fight segregation was:

Answer 1

the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott

Question 2

OneLegacy of the civil rights movement that has been challenged in recent years is:

Answer 2

affirmative action programs

Question 3

what did the voting rights act of 1965 enable federal officials to do

Answer 3

register voters

Question 4

in the 1970’s La Raza Unida focused its efforts on

Answer 4

electing Latino candidates to political office

Question 5

which doctrine relating to pubic education was overturned by the Supreme court decision in Brown vs. Board of Education

Answer 5

“separate but equal”

Question 6

American civil right lawyer, first black justice on the supreme court of the US

Answer 6

Thurgood Marshall

Question 7

Martin Luther King Jr was a founder and the first president of the

Answer 7

Southern Christian Leadership Conference

Question 8

Which of the following is not associated with the Black Power movement

Answer 8

the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

Question 9

Civil right leader who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery and so triggered a movement

Answer 9

Rosa Parks

Question 10

Coined the phrase “black power” and led SNCC away from a non violent approach

Answer 10

Stokely Carmichael

Question 11

According to the kerner Commision, what was the main cause of urban violence

Answer 11

white racism

Question 12

what were the demonstrations organized by the American Indian Movement designed to do?

Answer 12

actively confront the federal government

Question 13

formed in 1960 to coordinated sit-ins and protests and to give young blacks a larger role in the civil rights movement

Answer 13

SNCC (Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee)

Question 14

De Jure segregation is segregation that results from:

Answer 14

laws

Question 15

outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin

Answer 15

civil rights act of 1964

Question 16

Charismatic Black Muslim leader who promoted separatism in the early 1960’s

Answer 16

Malcom X

Question 17

What was the main type of pressure exerted by the Montgomery Improvement Association in response to segregation on busses

Answer 17

economic

Question 18

which of the following affirmed the legality of racial segregation and prompted the passage of Jim Crow Laws

Answer 18

the decision in Plessy v. Ferguson

Question 19

Cesar Chavez used nonviolent means to organize Mexican-American

Answer 19

farm workers

Question 20

Events such as ___ helped set the stage for the civil rights movement

Answer 20

better access to good jobs during WWII

Question 21

US civil rights leader whose college registration caused riots in traditionally segregated University of Mississippi

Answer 21

James Meredith

Question 22

1964 effort to register African American voters in Mississippi

Answer 22

Freedom Summer

Question 23

A delegate sent to the 1964 democratic National Convention from Mississippi; as a farmer on a cotton plantation was fired when attempting to vote; noted for voter registration drives

Answer 23

Fanie Lou Hamer

Question 24

segregation resulting from economic or social conditions or personal choice

Answer 24

de facto segregation

Question 25

A labor union formed in 1966 to seek higher wages and better working conditions for Mexican American farm workers in California

Answer 25

United Farm Workers Organizing Committee

Question 26

Politician and activist; he founded an urban civil rights group called the Crusade for Justice and was a leader in the Chicano movement in the 1960’s

Answer 26

Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzales

Question 27

A party organized in the late 1960’s as a means of getting Mexican Americans to unite politically and identify ethnically as one people

Answer 27

La Raza Unida

Question 28

a civil rights group organized to promote the interests of Native Americans

Answer 28

American Indian Movement (AIM)

Question 29

American feminist, activist and writer. Best known for starting the “Second Wave” of feminism through the writing of her book “The Feminine Mystique”

Answer 29

Betty Friedan

Question 30

economic and political organization for women”s equal rights to men

Answer 30

National Organization for Women (NOW)

Question 31

constitutional amendment passed by Congress but niver ratified that would have banned discrimination on the basis of gender

Answer 31

Equal Rights Amendment