Civil Rights Movement

Question 1

An NAACP attorney who had later went on to be a Supreme Court justice.

Answer 1

Thurgood Marshall

Question 2

In the early 1950s, five school segregation cases from Delaware, Kansas, South Carolina, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., came together under the title of….

Answer 2

Brown v. Board of Education

Question 3

It allowed nine outstanding black students to attend Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. These students became known as the Little Rock Nine

Answer 3

Little Rock Nine

Question 4

She was a seamstress and a NAACP worker. She boarded a bus and sat in the front row of the section reserved for black passengers. When the bus got full, the driver told her and the others to give their seats to white passengers and she refused. The driver called the police and she went to jail.

Answer 4

Rosa Parks

Question 5

Organized by Jo Ann Robinson, in the boycott thousands of African Americans stopped riding the buses.

Answer 5

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Question 6

A young Baptist minister with a reputation as a powerful speaker whose words could inspire and motivate listeners and had led the MIA

Answer 6

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Question 7

A demonstration in which protesters sit down and refuse to leave

Answer 7

Sit-in

Question 8

To continue the struggle for civil rights, the leaders of the student protests formed the ________in the spring of 1960

Answer 8

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee(SNCC)

Question 9

He was elected President in 1960 and was the youngest president elected in the United States. He was also the first Roman Catholic to become president.

Answer 9

John F. Kennedy

Question 10

To accomplish this, CORE(Congress of Racial Equality) organized a series of protests called ___________, in which black and white bus riders traveled together to segregated bus stations in the South.

Answer 10

Freedom Rides

Question 11

A massive demonstration for civil rights

Answer 11

March on Washington

Question 12

Was Vice President to JFK and was sworn in as president on November 22, 1963. He vowed to continue President Kennedy’s unfinished plans.

Answer 12

Lyndon B. Johnson

Question 13

The act banned segregation in public places. It also outlawed discrimination in the workplace on the basis of color, gender, religion, or national origin.

Answer 13

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Question 14

This law gave the federal government new powers to protect African Americans’ voting rights

Answer 14

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Question 15

President Johnson’s program of domestic reforms that he called _______

Answer 15

Great Society

Question 16

A movement which called for African American independence

Answer 16

Black Power

Question 17

Helped inspire the Black Power movement. He was the leader of the Nation of Islam, an organization that combined African American independence with the teachings of Islam.

Answer 17

Malcolm X

Question 18

One of the many Hispanic Americans who worked to improve conditions. He formed the United Farm Workers(UFW)

Answer 18

Cesar Chavez

Question 19

This Union was committed to the goal of better pay and working conditions for migrant farmworkers—those who move seasonally from farm to farm for work.

Answer 19

United Farm Workers

Question 20

The Jewish author who wrote “The Feminine Mystique” in which

Answer 20

Betty Friedan

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