Civil Rights movement

Question 1

What laws were the CRM a reaction to?

Answer 1

Jim Crow Laws

Question 2

What forms of protest did the CRM use?

Answer 2

Boycotts
Marches
Sit-ins
Mass rallies
Potions 
(Passive protest)

Question 3

Who formed the NAACP and when?

Answer 3

Burghardt, du Bois, Wells, Moscowitz

In 1909

Question 4

What was the double V campaign

Answer 4

Black soldiers calling for victory at home and victory in the war.

Question 5

What type/class of people were the members of the NAACP

Answer 5

Middle-class, multi racial with educated backgrounds.

Question 6

Who organized it and where and when did Brown vs Broad take place

Answer 6

Tupeka Kansas, 1954

NAACP

Question 7

How many black communities went to the Supreme Court and who was the person who argued against segregated schooling?

Answer 7

5 communities

Thurgood Marshall

Question 8

What Amendment did Thurgood claim was being abused

Answer 8

14th amendment

Question 9

What was the outcome of B vs B?

Answer 9

Supreme Court decided to make desegregated schools illegal.

Question 10

What other event occurred in terms of schools and education following B vs B and when did it happen?

Answer 10

Little Rock, Arkansas

1957

Question 11

Who tried to register at Central High?

Answer 11

9 black students

Question 12

What happened to the children when they tried to register and what was implemented to help them?

Answer 12

Racist crowds abused the children

President Eishenhower sent federal troops to escort them to school.

Question 13

Who initiated the Montgomery bus boycott and how and when?

Answer 13

Rosa Parks
Refused to give up her seat to a white person.
1955

Question 14

Who was rosa parks and what happened to her after her refusal?

Answer 14

A member of the NAACP
Seamstresses

She was arrested

Question 15

What boycott was initiated by Rosa Parks

Answer 15

Montgomery bus boycott 1955

Question 16

Who were the people involved, aims, local response and the outcomes of the boycott

Answer 16

NAACP, Martin Luthar King
Desegregate buses (lasted a year)
MLK and Rosa Parks arrested
Alabama federal district desegregated buses.

Question 17

Who were the people involved, aims, local response and the outcomes of the sit ins and when did they occur

Answer 17

Greensboro, Woolworths lunch counter 1960
SNCC, students from Norht Carolina College
Desegregate white only facilities in stores.
People were arrested
Lunch counters in many states were desegregated

Question 18

Who were the people involved, aims, local response and the outcomes of the Freedom Rides and when did they occur?

Answer 18

1961, sat in pairs and rode interstate buses
CORE, black and white travelers
Desegregate buses and bus stations in the south
Response was violent, protestors attacked by dogs and water cannons.
International media coverage and all interstate buses were desegregated.

Question 19

What were the three main matches, mass rallies in the CRM

Answer 19

1) “March for freedom and jobs” to Lincoln memorial 1963.
2) Birmingham campaign 1963.
3) Selma-Montgomery 1965

Question 20

Who were the people involved, aims, local response and the outcomes of the Lincoln March.

Answer 20

Demonstration: 250 000 black and white protestors.500 television cameras
People involved: MLK, other leaders of CRM
Aims: appeal for jobs and civil rights and equality.
Response: peaceful
Outcomes: MLK- noble peace prize, time magazines man of the year, widespread sympathy for CRM

Question 21

Who were the people involved, aims, local response and the outcomes of the Birmingham campaign.

Answer 21

Demonstration: 1963, Alabama, target racist shop owners in the epicenter of racism.
People involved: SCLC
Aims: desegregate facilities and increase job opportunities.
Response: violent, MLK arrested.
Outcomes: media coverage- world shocked. Shops desegregated, blacks were hired and people who were arrested were released.

Question 22

After King got arrested white did he do to regain the momentum of the protest.

Answer 22

Letter to Birmingham jail

Appealed to youth- Childrens crusade.

Question 23

Who were the people involved, aims, local response and the outcomes of the Selma-Montgomery March.

Answer 23

Demostration: marched from Selma to Montgomery.
People involved: MLK
Aims: focused on removing obstacles for voting and to draw attention to the prosecution of black people in Alabama
Response: violent. Sheriff stalled reforms
Outcome: Johnson passed voting rights act in 1965.

Question 24

What were the short term goals for CRM?

Answer 24

Schools/universities desegregated.
Civil acts right acts passed in 57,60,64
Voting rights act passed in 1965
Desegregation of facilities and transport.

Question 25

What did the three civil rights acts that were passed entail?

Answer 25

1957: limited use of literacy tests, protection to blacks who wanted to vote.
1960: federal judges given more power to intervene when black voters were prevented from voting.
1964: ended racial discrimination on paper.

Question 26

What did the voting rights act entail?

Answer 26

Removed all obstacles with regards to voting

Question 27

Long term goals of the CRM

Answer 27

Pride in black people
Better standard of living
Education: dropout rate decreased, graduation rates increased.