The Civil Rights Act - 1964

Question 0

Who designed the great society program and why

Answer 0

The new Pres Lyndon Johnson to bring an end to poverty and injustice

Question 1

What was the Civil Rights act part of

Answer 1

The great society program

Question 2

What did the Civil Rights act out law and what was set up to enforce these rulings (outlaws)

Answer 2

Racial segregation in schools, public places and employment and set up an equal opportunities commission to enforce this ruling

Question 3

Where did Johnson direct his funding and what result did this have on states

Answer 3

To those states which made fastest progress on desegregation this resulted in states being encouraged to work harder to get this funding

Question 4

When were two young civil rights workers murdered

Answer 4

1964

Question 5

What did Johnson do in his reaction of the murder of two young civil rights workers

Answer 5

Ordered FBI to hunt down killers

Led to 19 KKK men including a sheriff and deputy arrested

Question 6

How many KKK men were arrested in the hunt to find the killers of the two young civil rights workers

Answer 6

19

Question 7

When did Pres Johnson pass the voting rights act

Answer 7

1965

Question 8

What did the voting rights act end and result in

Answer 8

Ended literacy tests and other tricks by which whites had stopped blacks registering to vote - now everyone could vote as of right

Question 9

When was the education act also set up

Answer 9

1965

Question 10

What did the education act provide and result in

Answer 10

Funding for public schools; black students gain significantly and the number of black people’s leaving with high school diploma is increased

Question 11

In what year did James Farmer recommend what

Answer 11

1962 farmer recommends what he called ‘compulsory preferential treatment’

Question 12

What is compulsory preferential treatment

Answer 12

giving black people extra help to allow them to compete with more advantage whites

Question 13

What idea did Johnson adopt and what did he call this idea

Answer 13

Farmers compulsory preferential treatment

He called it affirmative action

Question 14

What is affirmative action

Answer 14

Pres Johnson’s policy of giving black people more support to compete with some more well off white people

Question 15

When was a higher education act passed and what did it do

Answer 15

Past 1965

Gave aid to black colleges

Question 16

When was in the fair Housing act passed and what did it do

Answer 16

Also called Civil Rights act
1968
Banned discrimination in housing

Question 17

What was the fair Housing act designed to do

Answer 17

To allow black Americans if they wished to move into areas where white Americans lived

Question 18

What was johnsons great society program taken over by

Answer 18

The Vietnam war

Question 19

What is the result of the Vietnam war on the government and their program of social reform

Answer 19

The government no longer had the money to spend on the ambitious program of social reform

Question 20

By 1967 what was the average black persons income in comparison to the white persons income

Answer 20

Reason to 62% of the average white persons income

Question 21

Amongst what riots of what timeframe had black politics been radicalised

Answer 21

Amongst the riots of 1964 to 68

Question 22

After what riots of what year did King visit the area of where these riots took place

Answer 22

The watts riots of 1965

Question 23

What was King’s reaction when he visited the area of watts

Answer 23

Horrified at the economic deprivation, social isolation, inadequate housing, and general despair

Question 24

When did Martin Luther King go to live in the ghettos of what city to see how he might help

Answer 24

1966 went to live in the ghettos of Chicago

Question 25

Why was king not a success in Chicago

Answer 25

He quarrelled with the mayor

Not well liked by local black people

Question 26

What riots broke out in the summer of 1966

Answer 26

The fire hydrant riots

Question 27

Why did the fire hydrant riots breakout

Answer 27

When the police shut down a fire hydrant that black youths had been playing in

Question 28

Who did the mayor blame for the fire hydrant riots in the summer of 1966

Answer 28

King

Question 29

In what year did King join and SNCC in March in Where?

Answer 29

1966 in Memphis

Question 30

What was the SNCC March in Memphis known as And why

Answer 30

Known as the Meredith March

as held in support of James Meredith who intended to march on his own but had been shot and wounded on the second day

Question 31

What did King argue with Stokely Carmichael about

Answer 31

About whether the march should be back only

Question 32

On the March what did SNCC members sing

Answer 32

Oh what fun it is to blast/a trooper man away

Question 33

What did Carmichael use the Meredith March event as

Answer 33

A platform from which to preach black power

Question 34

What did the new black power leaders think of King

Answer 34

They despised him personally and had little in common

Question 35

Why did Martin Luther King not like the talk of black power

Answer 35

He feared it would frighten his white supporters and provoke racial conflict

Question 36

What did king want instead of black power

Answer 36

Striped power

Black and white would share equally

Question 37

What was king mostly horrified by

Answer 37

The black power movements open advocacy of violent protest

Question 38

What did king realise towards the end of his life now that desegregation and voting legislation was in place

Answer 38

What is needed was social action

Question 39

What had the civil rights movement secured and what was a flaw in his secretion

Answer 39

Legal equality but this only gave black Americans an opportunity not a deliverance

Question 40

When did Martin Luther King publish his book where do we go from here

Answer 40

1967

Question 41

What idea did King take up in his book

Answer 41

The idea of affirmative-action

Giving black Americans the vote had cost white America nothing now is time to social and economic action

Question 42

What was the result of kings new left wing political Views

Answer 42

1967 he began to speak out against the Vietnam War, declaring that it was immoral and on social grounds: it cost half $1 million to kill a Vietcong soldier; but we are only spending $53 on every poor American back home he said

Question 43

When was Martin Luther King assassinated

Answer 43

1968

Question 44

What happened in the years since 1964

Answer 44

Black Americans achieved an impressive string of firsts

-First black mayor, first black general, first black US ambassador to the United Nations, first black spaceshuttle commander, first Black Secretary of State.

Question 45

Whatever census of 1992 show

Answer 45

Average black income was about 62% of average white income-exactly what had been 25 years earlier.

1/3 of all black male age 20 to 29 were in prison, on parole on probation (black American seven times more likely than white American to be in jail)

Question 46

In 1992 how much percent of the black population were unemployed

Answer 46

14%-double the figure for white Americans

Question 47

In 1992 in some of the inner-city ghettos how high was unemployment

Answer 47

63%

Question 48

In 1991 what happened to do with Los Angeles Police

Answer 48

LA police are filmed giving Rodney King and monkey slapping (one of the offices described it)

Question 49

What was the result of the 1991 Rodney King slapping

Answer 49

Jury acquitted the offices in 1992, black protesters riot for six days

Question 50

How many people died during the Rodney King riots and how much damage was done

Answer 50

53 people died

$1 billion of damage done