Topic 3: Civil Rights

Question 1

By 1945, there were how many black Americans in the US army?

Answer 1

750,000

Question 2

Black soldiers were not allowed into what two organisations?

Answer 2

Marines
Pilots in the US Air Force

Question 3

Who changed the army into being the most integrated from the most segregated?

Answer 3

Eisenhower

Question 4

By the end of the war, racial tension stilll existed and led to race riots in how many cities?

Answer 4

47

Question 5

What was the name of the landmark Supreme Court case to do with segregated schools?

Answer 5

Brown vs Topeka

Question 6

Who was the lawyer supporting Linda Brown?

Answer 6

Thurgood Marshall

Question 7

What did Thurgood argue and what did the Supreme Court rule?

Answer 7

He argued that educational achievement and self esteem was damaged by the separate but equal “Jim Crow Laws”.

1954: Supreme Court ruled that segregation was unconstitutional.

Question 8

President Eisenhower did little to support integration in schools, until what event was covered by media, showing the vicious white crowd and embarrassed a nation that championed freedom and equality?

Answer 8

Little Rock Nine

Question 9

How many federal troops did Eisenhower send to Little Rock, which led to Faubus (state governor) closing all Arkansas school for 2 years?

Answer 9

1000

Question 10

What year did JFK send 320 federal troops to escort James Meredith into university?

Answer 10

1962

Question 11

What year was Rosa Parks arrested?

Answer 11

1955

Question 12

What did MLK set up, which encouraged the bus boycott?

Answer 12

Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA)

Question 13

What were the names of protests where students endured violence and assaults but didn’t retaliate?

Answer 13

Sit-ins

Question 14

What group led the Freedom Riders and what were freedom riders testing?

Answer 14

CORE
Testing to see whether integration was really happening on buses.

Question 15

Where did MLK choose to march, since it was the most notoriously racist?

Answer 15

Birmingham, Alabama

Question 16

How many demonstrators were arrrested at the march of Birmingham?

Answer 16

2000

Question 17

How many demonstrators came from all over the USA for the march on Washington, where King delivered the “I have a dream” speech?

Answer 17

250,00.
March on Washington 1963, to put pressure on JFK to pass his Civil Rights Bill.

Question 18

What year was JFK assassinated?

Answer 18

1963

Question 19

Which President passed the Civil Rights Act in 1964?

Answer 19

L.B.Johnson

Question 20

What happened on “Bloody Sunday”?

Answer 20

MLK organised a March in Selma where marchers were attacked by mounted police with clubs and tear gas.

Question 21

What came under the Civil Rights Act 1964 and which president passed it?

Answer 21

L.B.Johson
Black students given equal rights.
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission set up.
Responsibility of federal government to bring cases to court to tackle discrimination.

Question 22

What was the 1965 Voting Rights Act, passed by Johnson?

Answer 22

Ended literacy tests so that black people could have access to voting.

Question 23

What was the 1968 Fair Housing Act, passed by Johnson?

Answer 23

Discrimination in housing based on race, gender etc Outlawed.

Question 24

What was Malcolm X’s slogan to justify that violence was in self defence?

Answer 24

“By any means necessary”

Question 25

What was Malcom X’s slogan to empower young black people?

Answer 25

“Black is beautiful”

Question 26

What did the Black Panther’s Ten Point Programme involve?

Answer 26

Established free breakfast programme, provided clothing centres, gave guidance on drugs rehab.

Question 27

When and where did to black athletes make the Black Panther salute with media coverage?

Answer 27

1968 Mexico Olympics