Civil Rights Test Study Guide

Question 1

Supreme Court case in which segregated schools were ruled unconstitutional

Answer 1

Brown v. Board of Education

Question 2

Protest tactic of occupying seats and refusing to move

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sit-in

Question 3

Civil rights activists who tried to end segregation on national buses

Answer 3

freedom riders

Question 4

Law that outlawed racial discrimination

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Civil Rights Act of 1964

Question 5

Name of project to win voting rights for southern blacks in Mississippi

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Freedom Summer

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Act that struck down state laws intended to keep blacks from voting

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Voting Rights Act of 1965

Question 7

Segregation by custom or practice

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de facto segregation

Question 8

Segregation by law

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de jure segregation

Question 9

African American group founded to combat police brutality

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Black Panthers

Question 10

Act that banned discrimination in housing

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Civil Rights Act of 1968

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Program aimed at hiring or including minorities

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affirmative action

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Belief that women should be equal to men in all areas

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feminism

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Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would prohibit discrimination against women

Answer 13

Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)

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activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott.

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Rosa Parks

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was an American Baptist minister and activist, one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968

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MLK

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American civil rights lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

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Thurgood Marshall

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American labor unionist and civil rights activist. In 1925, he organized and led the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first successful African-American led labor union.

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A. Philip Randolph

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American politician and civil rights activist who served in the United States House of Representatives for Georgia’s 5th congressional district from 1987 until his death in 2020 and founded the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

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John Lewis

Question 19

Supreme Court Case ruled that the “separate but equal” law did not violate the 14th Amendment

Answer 19

Plessy v. Ferguson

Question 20

Supreme Court case that ruled racially segregated public schools are unconstitutional

Answer 20

Brown v. Board of Education

Question 21

white supremacist group claimed responsibility for hundreds of violent attacks against African Americans and white civil rights supporters

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Ku Klux Klan

Question 22

African American students became the first to desegregate Little Rock Central High School in 1957

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Little Rock Nine

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Mandated the desegregation of all public schools

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Civil Rights Act of 1957

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College students who would protest the segregation of lunch counters at restaurants

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Sit ins

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African American pride and leadership

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Black Power

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goals of the National Organization for Women

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More child-care facilities
More educational opportunities
Ban gender discrimination in hiring

Question 27

Who wrote The Feminine Mystique

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Betty Friedan

Question 28

Required all immigrants seeking jobs prove their immigration status

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Immigration Reform and Control Act 1986

Question 29

riots that started the LGBT rights movement

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Stonewall Riots

Question 30

Requires public transportation and businesses to be made accessible to people with disabilities

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Americans with Disabilities Act

Question 31

WWII help set the stage for the Civil Rights Movement

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The demand for soldiers during the war created a shortage of white male workers. This opened up many new jobs for blacks.
1 million African Americans had served in the armed forces.
Many returned from the war ready to fight for their own freedom.

Question 32

Martin Luther King Jr. first emerged as a nationally-known leader of the Civil Rights Movement

Answer 32

The protesters looked for a person to lead the bus boycott.
They chose Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the pastor of a Baptist church.
The boycott lasted 381 days.
Finally, in late 1956 the Supreme Court ruled that segregated buses were illegal.
King joined with other ministers and civil rights leaders in 1957.
They formed the Southern Christian Leadership for the purpose of using nonviolent protests to change public policies and attitudes toward integration.