Reading Quiz - The Political Response Flashcards
JFK didn’t want to anger…?
Southern Democratic senators
Dr. King’s wife?
Coretta Scott King
Thurgood Marshall
Future Supreme Court justice; joined United States Circuit Court under Kennedy.
Civil rights leader
Medgar Evers: gunned down hours after Kennedy’s broadcast responding to Birmingham brutality; NAACP field secretary in Mississippi
Charged for murder of Evers
Byron de la Beckwith; two hung juries couldn’t decide, so was set free; convicted after case was reopened
Kennedy’s bills?
Banned discrimination wherever federal funding was involved
Prohibited segregation in public places
Advance school desegregation
March on Washington
Civil rights leaders proposed it to focus national attention on Kennedy’s bill; august 1963; more than 200,000 people came from all over country to call for “jobs and freedom” (official slogan of march
Director of March on Washington
A. Philip Randolph
March of Washington speech?
Dr. King - I have a dream; Kennedy watched on tv; civil rights bill remained stalled in congress
Three months after March of Washington
King assassinated
Kennedy assassinated
Civil rights bill not much closer to passage
Lyndon Johnson = new president and able to move legislation along
Filibuster
Tactic in which senators prevent a vote on measure by taking the floor and refusing to stop talking
Cloture
Everett Dirksen supported it (enlisted by Johnson to support it); a three-fifths vote to limit debate and call for a vote
June 1964
Senate voted for cloture; bill passed with support from both democrats and republicans
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Impact on voting, schools, and jobs.
Provisions:
1) Title I banned use of different voter registration standards for blacks and whites
2) Title II prohibited discrimination in public accommodations, such as motels, restaurants, gas stations, theaters, and sport arenas
3) Title VI allowed withholding of federal funds from public or private programs that practice discrimination
4) Title VII banned discrimination on the basis of race, sex, religion, or national origin by employers and unions, and also created Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to investigate charges of job discrimination
Freedom Summer
Organized voter registration drive in Mississippi; white (mainly college students) and blacks volunteered
There civil rights workers go went missing?
James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner
MFDP
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
Delegate of MFDP
Fannie Lou Hamer
Protected voting rights
Voting Rights Act of 1965- federal officials could register voters in places where local officials were blocking registration by African Americans; eliminated literacy tests and other barriers
24th Amendment
Outlawed pill tax (was still being used in southern states to keep poor African Americans from voting)
