LBJ Civil Rights Dates

Question 1

When is the first LBJ Civil Rights Act signed (outlawing discrimination and voters legislation)?

Answer 1

July 1964

Question 2

When were the Freedom Summer murders?

Answer 2

August 1964

Question 3

When is Malcolm X assassinated?

Answer 3

February 1965

Question 4

When is the Selma to Montgomery March?

Answer 4

March 1965

Question 5

When does the Voting Rights Act become law?

Answer 5

August 1965

Question 6

When were the Watts Riots?

Answer 6

August 1965

Question 7

How much property damage did the Watts Riots cause? How many arrests?

Answer 7

$40 million and over 3,400 arrests

Question 8

When was James Meredith shot?

Answer 8

June 1966

Question 9

When was the Black Panther Party founded?

Answer 9

October 1966

Question 10

When is Thurgood Marshall appointed to the Supreme Court?

Answer 10

June 1967

Question 11

When is the 12th Street Riot?

Answer 11

July 1967

Question 12

How many were arrested in the 12th Street Riot?

Answer 12

over 7,000

Question 13

When is Martin Luther King assassinated?

Answer 13

April 1968

Question 14

In Summer 1964, Mississippi, 17,000 black people attempted to register to vote but how many were actually approved?

Answer 14

1600

Question 15

When was the Selma Campaign?

Answer 15

1965

Question 16

How many were arrested in Selma?

Answer 16

3000 (23 black people were registered to vote)

Question 17

What was the opposition to the mainstream Civil Rights movement?

Answer 17

• Some accused King of having a ‘messiah complex’ and the SCLC of ‘leader worship’.
• the NOI had lost influencer after Malcolm X had left.

Question 18

What percentage of the public supported the first Civil Rights Bill?

Answer 18

68%

Question 19

How long was the Republican filibuster against the 1964 Civil Rights Act?

Answer 19

54 days

Question 20

By the end of 1966 how many states had less than half of the African-American population registered?

Answer 20

only 4

Question 21

Over the next decade, how much did the number of elected black officials increase by?

Answer 21

12 times

Question 22

Why did King’s Chicago Campaign fail?

Answer 22

• poor planning led to a 1966 rally with only 30,000 supporters rather than 100,000.
• the ‘ghetto’ apartment he moved into to highlight economic disparity was quickly refurbished by the landlord to avoid media attention.
• Daley palmed King for the $2 million in city damages.

Question 23

What was the results of the Watts riots?

Answer 23

34 deaths, 3500 arrests and $40 million of damage

Question 24

How many cities were there disturbances in?

Answer 24

over 200

Question 25

After King’s death and up until 1972, how many arrests were there due to riots?

Answer 25

60,000