Civil rights movement

Question 1

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Answer 1

democratic president, irish catholic, 9 siblings, wealthy because of prohibition, competitive family, health problems back injuries, very political family, went to Harvard, 6 congress, 8 senate, only prez to win pulitzer prize, “new frontier”,
was prez during march on Washington, nuclear test ban, peace corps, bay of pigs cuban missile crisis, trade expansion act
assassination-killed 11-22-1963, warren in charge of the investigation of his death

Question 2

Lyndon B Johnson

Answer 2

kennedy’s vp, executive order 11246 which enforced affirmative action, you have to higher so many minorities per highering, civil rights act 1964

Question 3

watts riots

Answer 3

august 11-16, neighborhood in los angeles, lots of looting and burning places

Question 4

eisenhower

Answer 4

little rock desegregation, he tried to be neutral in brown v board but regretted appointment of earl warren

Question 5

who cofounded Black Panthers in october of 1966

Answer 5

Huey Newton and Bobby Seale

Question 6

24th amendment

Answer 6

poll tax abolished

Question 7

Medgar Evers

Answer 7

NAACP field secretary, murdered-2 trials in 64 no conviction until 30 years later-Byron De La Beekwith

Question 8

CORE

Answer 8

61 they began their bus trip in may, the congress of racial equality, “freedom riders”, started north, protesting segregation of bus terminals

Question 9

civil rights act 1964

Answer 9

prohibits discrimination based on race, color, religion, or national origin in government jobs

Question 10

Martin Luther King Jr. famous speech, what year

Answer 10

1963, i have a dream

Question 11

james earl ray

Answer 11

assassinated MLK Jr

Question 12

“letter from Birmingham”

Answer 12

written by MLK while he was in jail the first time, he wanted people to know that they have a moral duty to fight unjust laws

Question 13

civil rights act of 1991

Answer 13

November, by Ronald Reagan, meant to strengthen all pre existing ones

Question 14

loving v virginia

Answer 14

about interracial marriage prohibition, end of trail said that it is unconstitutional to prohibit marriage

Question 15

rosa parks

Answer 15

montgomery bus boycott, december 1955, she was raised a little different, fought for what was right

Question 16

Malcom X’s attitudes later influenced the militant approach to black power adopted by SNCC under the leadership of

Answer 16

Stokely Carmichael

Question 17

How were African Americans kept from voting?

Answer 17

literacy tests, poll tax

Question 18

using methods patterned after those used by _, Dr. King and the SCLC taught civil rights activists how to use nonviolent resistance

Answer 18

Gandhi

Question 19

what was Birmingham’s nickname in the summer of ‘63 and why?

Answer 19

Bombingham. because of racial unrest, bombings, and attacks

Question 20

why was it important that the children were protesting? How did american react?

Answer 20

because the parents couldn’t work or they’d lose their jobs and houses, also no one expected it to be the children
there was a new sympathy towards the movement since it was children

Question 21

Eugene “Bull” Connor

Answer 21

Children’s march, well known racist, ordered the use of dogs and firehoses on the people’s protesting, chairman of public safety, helped civil rights gain sympathy

Question 22

Faubus

Answer 22

governor of Arkansas, tried to keep the little rock nine out, disobeyed federal court by sending in guards,

Question 23

earl warren

Answer 23

on supreme court, eisenhower didn’t like him, in charge of investigation of jfk assassination