Civil Rights Movement

Question 1

1954 Supreme Court case which ruled that separating children in public schools on the basis of race was unconstitutional. Overruled “Separate but equal” principle.

Answer 1

Brown v. Board of Education

Question 2

African American leader in the civil rights movement, Nation of Islam minister and supporter of Black nationalism. “By any means necessary”

Answer 2

Malcolm X

Question 3

Baptist minister and civil rights activist in the United States in the 1950s and ’60s who preached nonviolence and peaceful protests.

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

Question 4

the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court

Answer 4

Thurgood Marshall

Question 5

African American civil rights activist whose arrest for not giving up her seat on a public bus to a white man kicked off 1955–56 Montgomery bus boycott in Alabama.

Answer 5

Rosa Parks

Question 6

Segregationist public safety commissioner in Birmingham, Al known for his use of police dogs and fire hoses against demonstrators

Answer 6

Bull Connor

Question 7

Former Governor of Arkansas who sent the National Guard to block Black students from attending Central High School in Little Rock.

Answer 7

Orval Faubus

Question 8

American politician who was a strong supporter of segregation and served the longest term in Senate.

Answer 8

Strom Thurmond

Question 9

Civil rights protest during where African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama for 13 months to protest segregated seating.

Answer 9

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Question 10

The National Guard went to both high schools. In Clinton the national guard helped the integration. In Central the guard prevented the integration.

Answer 10

Integration of Clinton HS & Central High School

Question 11

Volunteers who traveled throughout the South on regularly scheduled buses for seven months in 1961 to test a 1960 Supreme Court decision that declared segregated facilities for interstate passengers illegal.

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Freedom Riders

Question 12

An encampment outside of Memphis in Fayette County, for African Americans who were evicted from their homes and blacklisted from buying because they registered to vote during the Civil Rights Movement.

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Tent City

Question 13

Political demonstration held in Washington, D.C., in 1963 by civil rights leaders to protest racial discrimination and to show support for major civil rights legislation that was pending in Congress.

Answer 13

March on Washington DC

Question 14

White supremacist terrorist bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, on Sunday, September 15, 1963 killing 4 female black children.

Answer 14

Birmingham Bombings (1963)

Question 15

a leadership school and cultural training center located in New Market, Tennessee known as a training center for labor and civil rights activists from the 1930s to the 1960s.

Answer 15

Highlander Folk School

Question 16

Law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.

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Civil Rights Act of 1964

Question 17

Outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting.

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Voting Rights Act of 1965

Question 18

popularly known as the Fair Housing Act, prohibits discrimination concerning the sale, rental, or financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin, and sex.

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Civil Rights Act of 1968

Question 19

Outlawed the poll tax as a voting requirement in federal elections

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24th Amendment

Question 20

An American Indian advocacy group that protested racism and civil rights violations against Native Americans.

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American Indian Movement

Question 21

A civil rights movement extending Civil Rights to Mexican- Americans with the goal of achieving Mexican American Empowerment.

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Chicano Movement

Question 22

Sought equal rights and opportunities and greater personal freedom for women

Answer 22

Feminist Movement