Civil Rights

Question 1

Said “No such thing as separate but equal”.

Answer 1

John Marshall Harlan

Question 2

News paper publisher who campaigned to make lynching a federal crime.

Answer 2

Ida Wells-Barnett

Question 3

Believed the first thing is for black men to learn trade, get a good job, support their families, and then worry about civil rights.

Answer 3

Booker T. Washington

Question 4

First black person to get an advanced degree from Harvard. Believed that civil rights should come first. Leader of NAACP

Answer 4

W.E.B. DuBois

Question 5

States right candidate for president 1948.

Answer 5

Thomas E. Dewey

Question 6

Republican running for president in 1948.

Answer 6

Strom Thurmond

Question 7

First black Major League Baseball Player

Answer 7

Jackie Robinson

Question 8

14 year old beaten and shot to death because he was accused of flirting with a white woman.

Answer 8

Emmett Till

Question 9

Arrested for sitting in a white seat and refusing to move

Answer 9

Rosa Parks

Question 10

Leader of the bus boycott

Answer 10

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Question 11

Governor of Arkansas who apposed the integration of a HS and personally blocked the door.

Answer 11

Orval Faubus

Question 12

Black student who was enrolled at the U of Mississippi; he finds the Governor of Mississippi is waiting for him at the registrar office to convince him to not enroll

Answer 12

James Meredith

Question 13

Three young men murdered who attempted to help black men vote in the south

Answer 13

Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, Michael Schwerner

Question 14

Alleged assassin of Martin Luther King,Jr.

Answer 14

James Earl Ray

Question 15

Leader of the anti- stop ERA

Answer 15

Phyllis Schlafly

Question 16

Separation of the races

Answer 16

Jim Crow*

Question 17

Racially motivated murder

Answer 17

Lynching

Question 18

The belief that black men needed to learn to trade, get a good job support your family and the civil rights will come later

Answer 18

Accommodationism

Question 19

Neighbor to neighbor allience to not sell homes to minorities in certain towns.

Answer 19

Restrictive covenants

Question 20

A large number of movement of white European Americans out of the cities into the suburbs to avoid black people

Answer 20

White flight

Question 21

Parking yourself at a lunch counter hoping to be served, knowing that you wont be.

Answer 21

Sit-ins*

Question 22

People who took interracial buses in south

Answer 22

Freedom Riders

Question 23

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Answer 23

Freedom Summer

Question 24

women must receive equal opportunities in high school and college extra scholastic sports

Answer 24

Title IX*

Question 25

Improving educational employment opportunities for women and interracial without using quota

Answer 25

Affirmative action

Question 26

Bus boycott took place in 1956

Answer 26

Montgomery

Question 27

Where a large group of white people and attacked black people on the bus

Answer 27

Birmingham

Question 28

In Alabama where a march for voting rights it held extreme bloody violence attacks occur during this time

Answer 28

Selma

Question 29

Terrible riot that occurred in LA, California

Answer 29

Watts

Question 30

National Organization for Women

Answer 30

stated goal: COMPLETE equality

Question 31

American Indian Movement

Answer 31

A group of radical indian activist make a civil rights group often violent to authority

Question 32

Plessy v Ferguson

Answer 32

Case goes to Supreme court and it rules that separate facilities for white and black are constitutional as long as they are of equal quality “Separate but equal”

Question 33

Brown v Board of Education

Answer 33

filed a lawsuit against the school bc of race and the supreme court overturned plessy and public schools must be desegregated with deliberate speed.

Question 34

Methods used by southern states to prevent their black citizens voting (3)

Answer 34

1. Literacy tests
2. Poll tax
3. Grandfather clause

Question 35

Method used to integrate the U.S. military

Answer 35

executive order

Question 36

Provisions of Truman’s civil rights program (3)

Answer 36

1. Make lynching a federal crime
2. Civil rights devision justice department
3. Anti- Discrimination Employment, Housing, Public Accommodations

Question 37

Original purpose of public housing

Answer 37

Low cost housing for middle class families that were saving up for a home

Question 38

Goals of the government’s “termination” policy (3)

Answer 38

1. reservation will be abolished
2. liquidate tribal assets
3. eliminate all gov programs /benefits administered by BIA (bureau of indian affairs)

Question 39

Provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1957 (3)

Answer 39

1. Becomes a federal crime to prevent qualified persons from voting
   2.

Question 40

Provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (3)

Answer 40

1. Prohibits job discrimination
2. prohibits racial discrimination
   3.

Question 41

Function of the Voting Rights Act of 1965

Answer 41

To provide for federal oversight of elections in the south and certain areas of the North