Civil Rights – African Americans Fight for Equal Treatment

Question 1

Brown v. Board of Education

Answer 1

Required desegregation of

schools, NAACP’s Thurgood Marshall helped argue the case

Question 2

Martin Luther King, Jr. -

Answer 2

• Important leader of the Civil Rights

movement, believed in civil disobedience instead of violence

Question 3

Black Panthers

Answer 3

Civil Rights group that used armed resistance

to protest and defend themselves, Huey Newton was leader

Question 4

Little Rock, Arkansas –

Answer 4

Governor Orval Faubus challenged the

power of the Federal government to desegregate schools

Question 5

March on Washington

Answer 5

– Nonviolent protest aimed to improve

political rights and economic opportunities of minorities

Question 6

Civil Rights Act of 1965

Answer 6

Required equal treatment of

minorities in the work place

Question 7

Equal Employment Opportunity

Answer 7

Government Agencies could

no longer discriminate in their employment practices

Question 8

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Answer 8

Ended poll taxes and literacy tests as

a requirement to vote, resulted in increased voting by minorities

Question 9

Shirley Chisholm

Answer 9

1

st African American woman to serve in Congress