The Civil Rights Movement (CRM), Kennedy, Johnson And Women

Question 1

List 2 problems that African Americans faced in the Southern States by 1950.

Answer 1

Segregation - they were separated in work school most things
Work - many people wouldn’t employ African Americans

Question 2

List 2 problems that African Americans faced in the Northern states 1950.

Answer 2

segregation (being separated from whites) and discrimination (being treated unfairly because of their race).

Question 3

List 2 ways that WW2 had begun to change the lives of African Americans.

Answer 3

NAACP - NAACP stands for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People - helped promote civil rights
Military employment many African Americans were employed in the war to help fight

Question 4

List 2 ways that African Americans lives did not change because of WW2.

Answer 4

Despite their sacrifices overseas, they still struggled to get hired for well-paying jobs, racist violence was till happening in southern states

Question 5

What is the Civil Rights Movement (CRM)?

Answer 5

The national effort made by black people and their supporters in the 1950s and 1960s to eliminate segregation and gain equal rights

Question 6

What was the aim of the CRM?

Answer 6

to eliminate segregation and for all races to be equal

Question 7

What did the Supreme Court declare in the case of Brown vs Topeka?

Answer 7

In may 1954, the Chief judge declared that every education board had to end segregation in schools 3 years after the Topeka case

Question 8

Name 3 campaigns that Martin Luther King’s Civil Rights Movement did to challenge segregation.

Answer 8

May 1963 Alabama king organised a non - violence protest march in one of the most segregated cities
August 1963 Washington King spoke at one of the largest civil rights demonstrations in US history and gave his most famous speech known as ‘I have a dream speech’
March 1965 Selma king ordered another march from Selma to Alabama when they reached the outskirts of Selma they were brutally attacked by police the day became known as bloody sunday

Question 9

Who was Bull Connor?

Answer 9

He was the police chief during the Alabama march and ordered the police to attack the protestors with dogs water cannons tear - gas electric cattle prods and batons they arrested hundreds of protestors including 900 children was all shown on tv to America

Question 10

Name two pieces of legislation passed in the 1960s which helped the Civil Rights Movement.

Answer 10

just before his assassination in 1963 Kennedy was going to pass the Civil rights act that aimed to give African Americans full equality in housing and education Kennedys successor Lyndon Johnson introduced another civil rights act in 1964 that outlawed racial discrimination in employment and segregation in public places
in 1965 the voting rights act gave all African Americans the right to vote

Question 11

Name 3 African Americans who supported Black Power, what did they do?

Answer 11

Malcom x - resonated with many Black Power tenets, criticizing nonviolent strategies and calling for Black people to take control of their own destiny.

Rosa Parks - became famous for the Montgomery Bus Boycott but afterwards was an activist for Black Power, aligning with lots of its views but rejecting violent actions

Martin Luther King - Dr. King played a pivotal role in shaping the Civil Rights Movement through his unwavering commitment to nonviolent resistance and his powerful leadership. His charisma, eloquence, and unwavering principles resonated with people across racial and religious lines, helping to garner widespread support for the movement’s cause.

Question 12

Describe two ways Kennedy’s New Frontier policies helped American people.

Answer 12

• made 4.9 billion for housing and people in poverty
• cut taxes so people would have more money top spend
• made 900 million for jobs and buisnesses

Question 13

Describe two limitations of Kennedy’s New Frontier policies.

Answer 13

Key proposals like a national health insurance program and federal aid to education faced strong resistance from conservative Democrats and Republicans, preventing their implementation.

Question 14

Who came up with the idea of the “Great Society”? What did it try to do?

Answer 14

President Johnson, its main goal was to eliminate all of poverty and racial injustice

Question 15

Name a Great Society policy that helped African Americans.

Answer 15

Minimum hourly wage was increased from £1.25 - £1.40

Question 16

Name a Great Society policy that helped health.

Answer 16

Model cities act cleared up slum areas
Medicare was introduced to help the elderly pay for medication

Question 17

Name a Great Society policy that helped tackle poverty.

Answer 17

Housing act helped people pay for housing
air and water quality act helped control pollution

Question 18

Name a Great Society policy that helped education.

Answer 18

He introduced elementary and secondary school
Education act provided funding for schools

Question 19

Why did President Johnson loose popularity by the late 1960s?

Answer 19

59 percent of African Americans lived in desperate poverty
By 1968 unemployment was rising and causing riots in poor poverty areas
He fully supported Americas involvement in Vietnam war

Question 20

Who wrote The Feminine Mystique and what was its message?

Answer 20

landmark book by feminist Betty Friedan published in 1963 that described the pervasive dissatisfaction among women in mainstream American society in the post-World War II period.

Question 21

Name two movements which campaigned for better rights for women.

Answer 21

The suffragettes
Feminist movement

Question 22

Name 2 pieces of legislation that improved women’s lives in the 1960s and 1970s.

Answer 22

Equal pay act
Educational amendment act

Question 23

Who was Phyllis Schlafly?

Answer 23

she led a successful campaign against the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s.