The Civil Rights Movement (Ch. 31 & 32)

Question 1

James Meredith

Answer 1

-1st African American to attend University of Mississippi

Question 2

Albany Movement

Answer 2

-Peaceful Arrests
-Civil Rights gained little

Question 3

Medgar Evers

Answer 3

-US Army Vet
-became a martyr
-murdered in front of home

Question 4

Birmingham

Answer 4

-Sit-ins started to use children

Question 5

Black Power

Answer 5

-Black Separatist
-Racial Pride
-Watts riots

Question 6

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Answer 6

-August 6th 1965
-outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War
-literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting

Question 7

Black Muslims

Answer 7

-NOI

Question 8

Elijah Mohammed

Answer 8

-an American religious leader
-black separatist
-self-proclaimed Messenger of Allah (NOI)

Question 9

Watts riots

Answer 9

-Marquette and Ronald Frye pulled over
-6 days
-34 deaths, 1032 injuries, 4000 arrests
-34,000 people involves
-1000 buildings damaged ($40 M)

Question 10

Betty Friedan

Answer 10

-Feminist author and activist

Question 11

University of California v. Bakke

Answer 11

-the SC rules that a university’s use of racial (quotas) in its admissions process was unconstitutional
-a school’s use of “affirmative action” to accept more minority applicants was constitutional in some circumstances

Question 12

Roe v. Wade

Answer 12

-Abortion in 1st trimester
-Women have the right to choose to have an abortion
-SC ruled 14th Amendment
-2022 SC Overruled (State’s decision)

Question 13

Counter-culture

Answer 13

-Hippies “reject mainstream”
-New Left
-Communal Living
-Fashion
-Problems

Question 14

American Indian Movement

Answer 14

-Red Power Movement
-Alcatraz Occupation

Question 15

George Wallace

Answer 15

-Gov. of Alabama
-Banned Civil Rights march from Selma to Montgomery

Question 16

Freedom Rides

Answer 16

-Shows Southern States violating Supreme Court

Question 17

Martin Luther King Jr.

Answer 17

-“I Have A Dream”

Question 18

Cesar Chavez

Answer 18

-Mexican American Activist who fought for the farm workers

Question 19

Lincoln Memorial

Answer 19

-Where MLK speech “I Have a Dream” took place

Question 20

Selma

Answer 20

-Civil Rights march to Montgomery

Question 21

Malcolm X

Answer 21

-Violence = Progress
-Elijah Mohammed
-Black Muslims

Question 22

Black Panthers

Answer 22

-Youth Political Organization

Question 23

busing

Answer 23

-Transportation to achieve desegregation
-Balance races for schools

Question 24

Affirmative Action

Answer 24

-Programs to compensate for discrimination
-More racial diversity in schools and workplace
-SC ended it in 2023

Question 25

Woodstock

Answer 25

-1969 Music Festival (3 days) -Rock

Question 26

NOW

Answer 26

-National Organization for Women -Fought for equality for women

Question 27

Title IX

Answer 27

-prohibits sex-based discrimination in any school or any other education program that receives funding from the federal government

Question 28

24th Amendment

Answer 28

-prohibits states from enacting a poll tax for voting in federal elections