Impact of Civil Rights Protests

Question 1

Full form of NAACP

Answer 1

National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People

Question 2

Full form of ACMHR

Answer 2

Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights

Question 3

Full form of SCLC

Answer 3

Southern Christian Leadership Council

Question 4

Full form of SNCC

Answer 4

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Question 5

Full form of MIA

Answer 5

Montgomery Improvement Association

Question 6

Full form of CORE

Answer 6

Congress of Racial Equality

Question 7

The sit-ins were first started by students from which college?

Answer 7

North Carolina Agriculture and Technology College

Question 8

How many students participated in the sit-ins of the Woolsworth lunch counters in total?

Answer 8

300 students

Question 9

The sit-ins successfully desegregated shops across how many towns and cities?

Answer 9

120 towns and cities

Question 10

When did Supreme Court say that interstate transport must be desegregated as well?

Answer 10

December 1960

Question 11

When did CORE decide to start freedom rides and why?

Answer 11

In 1961, CORE decided to carry out freedom rides to show that the ruling of the Supreme Court about desegregated interstate transport was not being followed.

Question 12

When did the first freedom ride begin and from where?

Answer 12

The first buses left on 4 May 1961 from Washington DC and headed to the South.

Question 13

The first bus of the freedom rides reached Anniston, Alabama on which date?

Answer 13

14 May 1961

Question 14

What was thrown into the first freedom ride bus at the Anniston station?

Answer 14

A firebomb

Question 15

How many freedom riders were arrested in Jackson, Mississippi?

Answer 15

300

Question 16

When does James Meredith apply to enter Mississippi University (‘Ole Miss)?

Answer 16

May 1961

Question 17

What does the Governor of Mississippi say to the public when he is pressed by the Supreme Court to allow Meredith to join the university?

Answer 17

He says: “No school in Mississippi will be integrated while I am your governor.”

Question 18

When does the Supreme Court order to admit Meredith to the Mississippi University?

Answer 18

June 1962

Question 19

President Kennedy sends Federal officials with marshals to force Mississippi University to accept Meredith, on what date?

Answer 19

30 September 1962

Question 20

When does James Meredith finally attend Mississippi University and how many guards is he protected by?

Answer 20

1 October 1962 - he’s protected by 300 guards

Question 21

The SCLC, SNCC, and ACMHR decide to carry out a campaign in Birmingham Alabama in 1963, and it’s called?

Answer 21

Project C

c for confrontation

Question 22

The first march of Project C took place when?

Answer 22

3rd April 1963

Question 23

Who was the leader of the ACMHR?

Answer 23

Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth

Question 24

Who was the leader of CORE?

Answer 24

James Farmer

Question 25

Who was the leader of SCLC?

Answer 25

Martin Luther King

Question 26

Who founded the NAACP?

Answer 26

W.E.B. Du Bois

Question 27

The leaders of the Birmingham Peace March are arrested and jailed, so on 2nd May 1963, what took place?

Answer 27

The first largest children’s march

Question 28

What does Chief Connor order the police to set on the people, since jails are overcrowded?

Answer 28

Dogs (and fire hoses were sprayed too)

Question 29

How many children were arrested during the Project C in Birmingham, Alabama?

Answer 29

Around 1000

Question 30

President Kennedy sends negotiators to start talks regarding the Birmingham Peace Marches, on which date?

Answer 30

10 May 1963

Question 31

Why was the March on Washington carried out?

Answer 31

To show support for the civil rights bill being debated by Congress under President Kennedy, and to encourage them to pass it.

Question 32

How many policemen and National Guards were kept on standby during the Washington March?

Answer 32

1000 policemen and 2000 National Guards

Question 33

When did the March on Washington take place and how many people were part of it?

Answer 33

23 August 1963 - around 250,000 were part of it

Question 34

The March on Washington takes place exactly how many years after the abolition of slavery?

Answer 34

100 years later….

Question 35

President Kennedy assassinated in…..

Answer 35

November 1963

Question 36

The Freedom Summer campaigns in Mississippi are started by which civil rights groups?

Answer 36

NAACP, CORE, and SNCC

Question 37

When are the Freedom Summer campaigns started?

Answer 37

Summer of 1964

Question 38

How many volunteers are sent to Mississippi during the Freedom Summer campaign?

Answer 38

Around 1000

Question 39

Which political party is set up during the Freedom Summer campaign?

Answer 39

Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP)

Question 40

The MFDP sets up how many Freedom Schools across Mississippi?

Answer 40

30 schools

Question 41

Who are the three Freedom Summer campaigners who are arrested on 21 June 1964?

Answer 41

Michael Scherner, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney

Question 42

Scherner, Goodman, and Chaney are arrested on 21 June 1964 during the Freedom Summer for what reason?

Answer 42

For minor traffic offences while driving to Scherner’s home.