Civil Rights Unit Pt. 1

Question 1

American feminist writer and activist. Author of the book, The Feminine Mystique

Answer 1

Betty Friedan

Question 2

Civil rights law from the Education Amendments. Prohibits sex based discrimination (Think if boys get football, to be equal, girls will get volleyball)

Answer 2

Title IX (9)

Question 3

1890s- a legal way to keep African Americans from voting (a voting fee) Had to pay before you can vote.

Answer 3

Poll Tax

Question 4

1st African American to serve on the Supreme Court

Answer 4

Thurgood Marshall

Question 5

Co found of the National Farmworkers Association alongside Cesar Chavez

Answer 5

Dolores Huerta

Question 6

Civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into segregated Southern United States

Answer 6

Freedom Riders

Question 7

Mexican American labor leader-dedicated his life to what he called la causa (the cause); the struggle of farm workers in the United States

Answer 7

Cesar Chavez

Question 8

In the White House, she was one of the most active first ladies in history. Became a delegate to the United Nations

Answer 8

Eleanor Roosevelt

Question 9

To deprive of a franchise, of a legal right Example: to deprive of the right to vote

Answer 9

Disenfranchise

Question 10

Refused to give her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama 1955

Answer 10

Rosa Parks