Civil Rights Movement

Question 1

The Murder of Emmett Till

Answer 1

Murdered by two men in August 1955 in Mississippi because he was accused of harassing a white woman. Sparked the Civil Rights movement because he was 14.

Question 2

Civil Rights was?

Answer 2

Political struggle for social justice in 1950-60s for African Americans to gain equal rights.

Question 3

Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

Answer 3

Linda Brown’s parents wanted her to go to the nearby white school, but it was segregated. Decided separate was inherently unequal, desegregated all schools nationally.

Question 4

Montgomery bus boycott (1955)

Answer 4

After Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man and was arrested, MLK Jr started to boycott where African Americans refused to ride public transportation in the city.

Question 5

Little Rock nine

Answer 5

Little Rock Nine not allowed in Central High School because of the Southern resistance to integration and the KKK coming back. 1957, Federal troops sent to protect students.

Question 6

Martin Luther King Jr.

Answer 6

1963- starts the Southern Christian Leaders Conference and joins in the protests. Is arrested, and writes the “Letters from Birmingham Jail” He pushed Kennedy for civil rights laws with nonviolence because then they were under the first Amendment

Question 7

March on Washington - Aug 28, 1963

Answer 7

200000 people @ Lincoln Memorial, to pressure the civil rights law. The “I Have a Dream” speech to push for equality.

Question 8

Malcolm X

Answer 8

Studied Nation of Islam, appointed minister and spokesman. Advocated for blacks to free selves in any way necessary, proposed an independent black nation.

Question 9

Stokely Carmichael - “Black Power”

Answer 9

Faced police violence, black nationalism and self-sufficiency, Black power

Question 10

Student nonviolent coordinating committee

Answer 10

abandons nonviolence for radical violence, lack power is the rally cry, AAs depend on selves. Greensboro sit-in.

Question 11

Black Panthers, Oakland CA, 1966

Answer 11

violent revolution, guns to monitor AAs and neighbors for police brutality.

Question 12

Nation of Islam

Answer 12

Believed in Black Power, self-discipline, reliance, pride

Question 13

Nonviolence

Answer 13

Boycotts, sit-ins,s marches, freedom rides, voter registration.

Question 14

Greensboro 1960

Answer 14

Four college students from North Carolina A&T sat at the Greensboro segregated counters, not allowed.

Question 15

March on Selma Alabama (1965)

Answer 15

PSA for voting rights, “Bloody Sunday” because protesters met with violence crossing the bridge.

Question 16

Freedom Rides (1961)

Answer 16

Congress of Racial Equality, staged rides through south to challenge interstate bus segregation, Alabama whites firebombed and attacked riders.

Question 17

Voter Registration

Answer 17

1,000 volunteers in MI register as many AAs to vote, (literacy tests, poll tax, grandpa clause) pressured gov for voting legislation

Question 18

Freedom Summer 1964

Answer 18

SNCC organized it to aid AAs to vote, three volunteers disappear and their bodies were found weeks later

Question 19

Civil Rights Act 1964

Answer 19

Outlawed public discrimination based on race/religion/nationality. Gov is able to desegregate schools, under President Johnson

Question 20

Voting Rights Act 1965

Answer 20

MLK Campaign, met with police violence. Banned literacy tests, federal gov oversees registration and elections in South, 24th Amendment=no poll tax, AAs vote and run for office increase

Question 21

End of Civil Rights

Answer 21

Kind assassinated in Memphis in 1968, national riots. 1) end segregation 2) Political freedoms 3)Unity of AAs