Civil Rights Movement

Question 1

GI Bill

Answer 1

legislation that provided retired service members many benefits

Question 2

Executive Order 9981

Answer 2

a study of racism in the country that led to an end to segregation in America

Question 3

Brown v. Board of Education

Answer 3

Supreme Court Case that ruled racial segregation is unconstitutional

Question 4

Emmett Till

Answer 4

14-year old boy who was brutally murdered for whistling at a white woman in Mississippi

Question 5

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Answer 5

civil rights protest of African Americans refusing to ride city buses

Question 6

Martin Luther King Jr.

Answer 6

Pastor and President of the Civil Rights Movement; helped to bring the Civil Rights Act & Voting Rights Act

Question 7

SCLC

Answer 7

Southern Christian Leadership Conference, group made to coordinate the actions of local protest groups in the South

Question 8

Nation of Islam

Answer 8

an extremist group that believed Blacks were superior than whites and provoked violent protests

Question 9

Malcolm X

Answer 9

activist and outspoken public voice of the Nation of Islam

Question 10

Little Rock Nine

Answer 10

first major south school that allowed de-segregation

Question 11

Woolworth’s Sit-ins

Answer 11

four college students refuse to leave a “whites only” lunch counter

Question 12

SNCC

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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; served as one of the leading forced for the Civil Rights Movement

Question 13

Freedom Riders

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groups of white and black civil rights activist bus trips throughout the South

Question 14

James Meredith

Answer 14

an African American veteran who attempted to enroll in an all-white University in Mississippi

Question 15

The Birmingham Campaign

Answer 15

MLK and SNCC would launch one of the most influential campaigns of the movement

Question 16

March on Washington

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a massive protest march in front of the Lincoln Memorial

Question 17

16th Street Baptist Church Bombing

Answer 17

a bomb planted by the KKK that killed 4 girls and injured several others

Question 18

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Answer 18

President Lyndon B. Johnson signs a law that prevents employment discrimination

Question 19

Mississippi Freedom Summer

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a voter registration drive sponsored by SNCC- made to increase black voters in Mississippi

Question 20

Malcolm X Assassination

Answer 20

killed by rival Black Muslims in NYC

Question 21

Selma March

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a woman who made an effort to register black voters

Question 22

Voting Rights of 1965

Answer 22

President B. Johnson signs a law that prevents the literacy test as a voting requirement and send the army for voting

Question 23

Black Power Movement

Answer 23

Stockley Carmichael was elected head of the SNCC, and believed that violence and self defense was correct

Question 24

MLK Jr’s Assassination

Answer 24

killed in Memphis, Tennessee, an event that sent shock to the world and future riots

Question 25

Riots of 1968

Answer 25

many blacks living in poverty around the country rioted over MLK Jr’s assassination