Civil Rights Movement: 1950 - 2000

Question 1

Success of Civil Rights

Answer 1

• Johnson’s Great Society helped black poverty
• Civil Rights Act (1964)
• Fair Housing Act (1968)
• Busing (1971)
• Black celebs and culture in 80s

Question 2

Failures of Civil Rights

Answer 2

• Fractured movement (MLK vs Violent riots)
• De facto segregation
• MLK assassinated (1968)
• LA Riots, Rodney King (1992)

Question 3

What happened in the Long Hot Summer of 1967? What did this lead to?

Answer 3

150 riots

Led Kerner Commission

Question 4

What did the Kerner Commission (1968) say?

Answer 4

White Racism and poverty was to blame for riots

Question 5

What was Mass Incarceration called?

Answer 5

The new Jim Crow

Question 6

When were the LA Riots? What triggered events?

Answer 6

1992

Rodney King beaten by police

Question 7

When was the Comprehensive Crime Control Act introduced?

What did it do?

Answer 7

1984

Established minimum sentencing

Question 8

What Act was introduced in 1984?

Answer 8

Comprehensive Crime Control Act

Question 9

What did Michael Flamm say about ‘Law and Order’?

Answer 9

It implicitly tackled the anxiety over urban riots and Civil Rights in general

Question 10

What historian discussed ‘Law and Order’?

Answer 10

Michael Flamm

Question 11

Riots and protests from 1950 to 2000

Answer 11

• Bus Boycott (1955)
• Long Hot Summer (1967)
• La Riots (1992)

Question 12

When was the Selma March? What happened?

Answer 12

1965

Non-violent protestors met by police

Question 13

What did the Selma march spark?

Answer 13

Black Power

Question 14

When did busing start?

Answer 14

1971

Question 15

When were schools technically desegregated? What passed it?

Answer 15

1954

Brown vs Board of Education