Civil Rights

Question 1

Steps of KKK intimidation

Answer 1

1. Warning: burning cross in front yard
2. Physical assault
3. Burn house down
4. Killing

Question 2

Justice in Brown v. Board

Answer 2

Earl Warren

Question 3

Attorney in Brown v. Board

Answer 3

Thurgood Marshall

Question 4

Brown v. Board overturned which Supreme Court case?

Answer 4

Plessy v. Ferguson

Question 5

Brown v. Board decided…

Answer 5

that separate schools are inherently unequal

Question 6

Little Rock 9

Answer 6

1957: Central High students forcibly integrated into the Arkansas school in which Eisenhower sent in 101st Airborne to escort students after Governor Faubus called the National Guard to keep the nine out.

Question 7

First sit-ins

Answer 7

Greensboro sit-ins in North Carolina

Question 8

Freedom Rides

Answer 8

Organized by CORE: protests against segregation on interstate busing in the South in which white riders sat in the back and allowed blacks to sit in the front and refused to move

Question 9

Freedom Summer

Answer 9

1964 SNCC organized voter-registration drive for southern blacks in which Northern college students came into Mississippi to work with SNCC organizers and went house to house for registration, and many were killed.

Question 10

Civil Rights Act (1964)

Answer 10

Johnson signed the first nationwide law that banned segregation in public places. It also created the Equal Employment Opportunity commission to prevent job discrimination

Question 11

Order these events:
Plessy v. Ferguson
Voting Rights Act
Brown v. Board
Little Rock Nine

Answer 11

Plessy v. Ferguson
Brown v. Board
Little Rock Nine
Voting Rights Act

Question 12

2 legal ways to keep African Americans from voting

Answer 12

1. Poll taxes

2. Literacy tests

Question 13

Federal government committee in charge of Native American affairs

Answer 13

Bureau of Indian affairs

Question 14

Jim Crow Laws affected…

Answer 14

1. transportation
2. public facilities
3. schools

Question 15

Who founded the Nation Foundation of Women (NOW)?

Answer 15

Betty Friedan

Question 16

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Answer 16

CAUSE: Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat and got arrested
WHAT HAPPENED: African Americans refused to ride buses for over a year
RESULT: Buses became integrated

Question 17

Organization in order to give Latinos equal rights

Answer 17

La Raza Unida: helped elect Mexican Americans to public office and to advocate for better jobs, pay, housing and education

Question 18

Who held hunger strikes for equal rights?

Answer 18

César Chávez

Question 19

Most racist city

Answer 19

Birmingham, AL

Question 20

Describe Greensboro sit-ins and what they accomplished

Answer 20

4 black college students held sit-ins in to desegregate lunch counters. The protest grew to more that 100 people, and inspired many other sit-ins in the South The peaceful protest succeeded in opening lunch counters to African Americans. They also resulted in the creation of an organization for young people fighting racial discrimination called the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

Question 21

March on Washington

Answer 21

About 250,000 people joined MLK Jr. for this huge cicl rights demonstration in Washington, DC, in 1963. MLK delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech there.

Question 22

Voting Rights Act

Answer 22

Act signed to law in 1965 by Johnson that banned literacy tests and other laws that keep people from being able to vote