Civil Rights Review Game Flashcards
Who was the Spokesperson for the Student Violent Coordinating Committee led a sit-in movement in Nashville, Spoke at the March on Washington & was attacked on the Pettus Bridge leading a voting rights march?
John Lewis
Who Gained fame and notoriety for his work on the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Part of the SCLC and used only Non-violent peaceful protest
Martian Luther King Jr.
Who was a Black Muslim leader who urged blacks to separate from white society
Malcom X
Who was a veteran that became the first African American to Attend the university of Mississippi?
James Meredeth
Who was the Civil rights leader who became impatient with nonviolence and called for “Black Power”
Stokely Carmicheal
What planned event helped spark the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat to a White Man
What method was used to desegregate lunch counters?
sit-in
What Supreme Court Case that desegregated schools?
Brown vs. BOE
Even though school segregation was deemed unconstitutional from Brown v. BOE, why did it take until 1957 at Little Rock High School for integration to slowly begin?
A lack of presidential enforcement
What act greatly increased Black/African American political power in the south?
The Voting RIghts act of 1965
What organization was motivated by the story of Emmitt Till, organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott and its leadership was made up of pastors/religious leaders?
SCLC (Southern Christian Leaders Confrence)
What organization was made up of mostly college students and gained notoriety from sit-in movements it led?
SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee)
What organization was made up of Black/African Americans who became impatient with non-violent peaceful protest and decided they would protect their own communities using their second amendment rights?
Black Panthers
What organization led a voter education movement in the south called Freedom Summer?
SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee)
What religious organization was led by Malcolm X and help to inspire the Black Power Movement?
Nation of Islam
What technology helped to motivate and inform the nation of the atrocities happening in the south?
Television
Give a modern example of non-violent peaceful civil disoberdiance.
Students staging a walk out on campus for gun safety. This is because technically students can receive punishment for leaving class without permission so though they are breaking school rules for a just cause they still have to accept the penalty just like the sit-in protestors were arrested for their actions.
What ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin?
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
What act banned the use of literacy tests, provided for federal oversight of voter registration in areas where less than 50 percent of the non-white population had not registered to vote, and authorized the U.S. attorney general to investigate the use of poll taxes in state and local elections?
Voting Rights Act of 1965
__________ is segragation by tradition or custom and ______________ is segregation by law
De facto
De jure
