Civil Rights

Question 1

Citizens Council

Answer 1

• Southern whites version of KKK

- fire blocks from jobs/getting loans/insurance

Question 2

Southern manifesto

Answer 2

Supreme Court’s decision of Brown versus Board is it abusive power

Question 3

Orval Faubus

Answer 3

• keeps blocks for going to school using troops
• goes against congresses ruling
• Block doors with guns
• President said you can’t do this, now you have to help blacks register for school

Question 4

Rosa Parks

Answer 4

• seamstress from Alabama who was tired after work and took the first available seat near the front in 1955
• Inspired Montgomery bus boycott where blacks didn’t use buses for year which shook the South Economy
• supreme Court says public transportation segregation is illegal

Question 5

Southern Christian leadership conference

Answer 5

• Led by 26-year-old preacher MLK
• formed to organize nonviolent protest and segregation “militant nonviolence”
• -participated in sit in, kneel ins, & wade ins

Question 6

Freedom Riders

Answer 6

• forced integration of buses by bringing the whites and blacks together as a team
• got broadcasted on TV in 1963 getting beat up by white mobs

Question 7

1964 civil rights act

Answer 7

• ends discrimination in all public places
• basis of sex, religion, national origin
• prohibits literacy tests and voter registration
• outlaws discrimination in employment

Question 8

March on Selma

Answer 8

• voting rights demonstration organized by Jim Clark

- blacks being beaten on TV

Question 9

1965 civil rights act

Answer 9

• Provided federal government protection for blacks he tried to vote
• Active and activist government

Question 10

Black Panthers

Answer 10

• Black militants who were so scary
• or military uniforms and carried weapons
• you have to fight for what you want to make a change
• rejected MLK and peace

Question 11

Brown vs board

Answer 11

• May 1954

- segregation is unconstitutional, separate but equal is NOT equal