The Civil Rights Movement

Question 1

What was enforced during the reconstruction period

Answer 1

The emancipation proclamation by Lincoln
The abolished slavery
The voting rights

Question 2

What caused the CRM

Answer 2

racial segregation in the south
Jim Crow laws
Discrimination
KKK

Question 3

What was the naacp for

Answer 3

The national association of coloured people was to initiate lawsuits for equality and publicised racial injustices

Question 4

What was the double v campaign

Answer 4

After ww2 the men came back and wanted end of segregation in armed forces

Question 5

What did core organise in 1947

Answer 5

The first freedom ride

Question 6

What was the campaign that lead to the birth of the CRM

Answer 6

The Montgomery bus boycott

Question 7

What sparked the bus boycott

Answer 7

Spontaneous rebellion by Rosa parks

Question 8

What is respectability politics

Answer 8

Using a certain look to appear respectable in regards to political image

Question 9

Who was the leader or MIA during the bus boycotts

Answer 9

Martin Luther king

Question 10

What did the bus boycott lead to in 1956

Answer 10

The desegregation of the bus system

Question 11

What was the SCLC of 1957

Answer 11

The southern Christian leadership conference was a leading force in the CRM and pushed forward ideas of peace and religion

Question 12

Who and what was the Little Rock 9

Answer 12

9 academically smart black students gained admission to an all white high school and needed high levels of protection

Question 13

What were the sit in protests of 1960

Answer 13

The Greensboro four used the CRM tactics of non violence and sat in a segregated department store and soon many joined until they became unsegregated

Question 14

What is sncc

Answer 14

The student non violent coordinating committee

Question 15

What were the freedom rides of 1961

Answer 15

Aimed to desegregate interstate travel by having a group travel together but faced violence and then tried again bc of Diane nash

Question 16

What did the freedom rides achieve

Answer 16

The interstate commerce commission which desegregated the travel

Question 17

What was The Birmingham campaign

Answer 17

Birmingham=very racist+violent

So launches passive nonviolent demonstrations to highlight the brutality

Question 18

What came after the Birmingham campaign due to fear of job losses

Answer 18

The children’s crusade

Question 19

What was the march on Washington of 1963 for

Answer 19

To pressure the government to implement the civil rights bill as well as the march for jobs and freedom occurred then to

Question 20

What caused the civil rights bill to become an act

Answer 20

The assassination of Kennedy in 1963 lead to Lyndon Johnson getting the bill passed which enforced desegregation

Question 21

Who was involved in the freedom summer

Answer 21

Core and sncc

Question 22

What was the aim of the freedom summer

Answer 22

The increase the number of poc registered voters in Deep South areas

Question 23

How did the freedom summer gain the attention of the media

Answer 23

The missing volunteers and the extreme violence the members of the organisations faced

Question 24

What was the aim of the Selma to Montgomery marches

Answer 24

For voting rights

Question 25

What was “Bloody Sunday”

Answer 25

When the Selma to Montgomery marches were stopped by Alabama state troopers and attacked brutally where they had to turn around

Question 26

Did the Selma to Montgomery march eventually occur

Answer 26

Yes after the federal judge said it was legal they were protected by the regular army

Question 27

What caused the voting rights act of 1965

Answer 27

The pressure from CRM and Bloody Sunday caused Johnson to sight the act