Civil Rights

Question 1

Thurgood Marshall

Answer 1

A NAACP attorney who went on to become Supreme Court Justice who led battles against segregation

Question 2

Brown V. Board of Education

Answer 2

A 7 year old black girl was made to go to a black school which was far away, and she lived near a white school.

Question 3

Little Rock nine

Answer 3

The nine students that were allowed to go to Central High School ( a white school)

Question 4

Rosa Parks

Answer 4

A woman who was arrested for not giving up her seat to a white person on the bus

Question 5

Montgomery bus boycott

Answer 5

Thousands of African Americans stopped riding the busses do to the racial injustice on them. It was a protest

Question 6

Martin Luther King Jr.

Answer 6

A black male who was the main leader in the civil rights movement, he lead the march on Washington with his “ I Have A Dream” speech.

Question 7

Sit-in

Answer 7

A demonstration in which protesters sit down and refuse to leave

Question 8

Coordinating committee

Answer 8

SNCC, or the student nonviolent coordinating committee

Question 9

John F. Kennedy

Answer 9

The president in 1960 who got assassinated in 1963

Question 10

Freedom Rides

Answer 10

When black and white bus riders traveled together in segregated busses through the south

Question 11

March on Washington

Answer 11

A massive demonstration for civil rights

Question 12

Lyndon B. Johnson

Answer 12

The president who took over when JFK got assassinated

Question 13

Civil Rights act of 1964

Answer 13

The act banned segregation in public placed. It also outlawed discrimination in the workplace on the basis of color, gender, religion, or national origin.

Question 14

Voting rights act of 1965

Answer 14

Gave the federal government new powers to protect African Americans voting rights.

Question 15

Great society

Answer 15

President Johnson’s program of domestic reforms

Question 16

Black Power

Answer 16

A movement which called for African American independence.

Question 17

Malcom X

Answer 17

A activist who helped inspire the Black Power movement, who was eventually assassinated.

Question 18

Cesar Chavez

Answer 18

One of the many Hispanic Americans who fought for equal rights

Question 19

United Farm Workers

Answer 19

A Union commited to the better pay and working conditions of migrant workers

Question 20

Betty Friedan

Answer 20

A German author who described women’s dissatisfaction with there traditional roles in a boook

Question 21

National organization for women

Answer 21

Organized to fought for equal education and career oppurtunities for women

Question 22

Shirley Chisholm

Answer 22

First women elected into congress

Question 23

Equal rights amendment

Answer 23

Outlawed discrimination based on sex

Question 24

Phyllis Schlafly

Answer 24

An activist who founded the group STOP ERA

Question 25

American Indian movement

Answer 25

Organized to fight for Native Americans rights

Question 26

Disabled in action

Answer 26

Made to make people aware of challenges people with disabilities face