Unit 5:: The Civil Rights Movement

Question 1

Plessy vs. Ferguson

Answer 1

The Supreme Court case that upheld a Louisiana segregation law on the theory that as long as the accommodations between the racially segregated facilities were equal, the equal protection clause was not violated. The Court’s ruling effectively established the constitutionality of racial segregation and the notion of “separate but equal.”

Question 2

Brown vs. Board of Education

Answer 2

Supreme Court ruling reversing the policy of segregation from Plessy v Ferguson, declaring that seperate can never be equal and a year later ordered the integration of all public schools with all deliberate speed

Question 3

Little Rock Nine

Answer 3

black schoolchildren who decided to attend a previously all-white high school in Little Rock, Arkansas; because riots were expected and occurring, Eisenhower sent federal protection for these Little Nine

Question 4

SNCC

Answer 4

Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee)-a group established in 1960 to promote and use non-violent means to protest racial discrimination; they were the ones primarily responsi

Question 5

SCLC

Answer 5

Southern Christian Leadership Conference) used christian pricipals in order to fight segregation–nonviolent, consisted of black prechers, and had alot of influence

Question 6

Nonviolence

Answer 6

form of protest in which protesters do not resist or fight back when attacked.

Question 7

Sit-Ins

Answer 7

protests by black college students

Question 8

Freedom Rides

Answer 8

Civil rights protest in which a racially mixed group of protesters challenged racially segregation bus terminals.

Question 9

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Answer 9

Protest in 1955-1956 by african Americas against racial segregation in the bus system of montgomery, Alabama.

Question 10

Freedom Summer

Answer 10

This was a campaign in the united states launched in june to attempt to register as many African American voters as possible in Mississippi.

Question 11

Selma March(es)

Answer 11

Blacks sat in line waiting to vote and officers were arresting people.

Question 12

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Answer 12

Law that outlawed discrimination in a number of areas.

Question 13

Voting Rights Bill of 1965

Answer 13

Law aimed at a reducing barriers to African Americans voting

Question 14

President Eisenhower

Answer 14

34th president, leader of allied forces in world war 2, he promoted business and continued social programming.

Question 15

Malcolm X

Answer 15

African American leader during the 1950s and 1960s eloquent spokesperson for African Americans self-sufficiency; assassinated in 1965.

Question 16

Governor Orval Faubus

Answer 16

was the 36th Governor of Arkansas, serving from 1955 to 1967. desegregation of the Little Rock School District during the Little Rock Crisis.

Question 17

Emmett Till

Answer 17

Emmett Louis Till was an African-American boy who was murdered in Mississippi at the age of 14 after reportedly flirting with a white woman.

Question 18

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Answer 18

African American Civil Rights leader from the mid 1950’s.

Question 19

Rosa Parks

Answer 19

She sat on the montgomery bus and she said that she was not going to move seats for the white people.

Question 20

Governor George Wallace

Answer 20

Third party candidate for president; focused his campaign on issues of blue-collar anger in the north and racial tension.

Question 21

“Bull” Connor

Answer 21

was the Commissioner of Public Safety for the city of Birmingham, Alabama.

Question 22

Central High School

Answer 22

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Question 23

The March on Washington

Answer 23

1963 civil rights demonstration in Washington D.C.

Question 24

Birmingham

Answer 24

Alabama

Question 25

Bombing of 16th Street Baptist Church

Answer 25

This was a turning point for the United States, this bombing killed 4 girls.

Question 26

United Farm Workers

Answer 26

Union organized by Cesar Chavez to organize Mexican field hands in the west.

Question 27

Cesar Chavez

Answer 27

Organized Union Farm Workers (UFW); help migratory farm workers gain better pay & working conditions, Non-violent leader of the United Farm Workers from 1963-1970.

Question 28

NLRB

Answer 28

National Labor Relations Board

Question 29

American Indian Movement(AIM)

Answer 29

Organization formed in 1968 to help native Americans.

Question 30

Trail of Broken Treaties

Answer 30

was a cross-country protest in the United States by American Indian and First Nations organizations that took place in the autumn of 1972.

Question 31

Bureau of Indian Affairs

Answer 31

is an agency of the federal government of the United States within the U.S. Department of the Interior

Question 32

NOW

Answer 32

National Organization of Women, 1966, Betty Friedan first president, wanted Equal Employment

Question 33

Women’s Liberation Movement

Answer 33

was a type of feminism that began in the late 1960s and persisted throughout the 1970s.

Question 34

Gloria Steinem/ Betty Freidan

Answer 34

is an American feminist, journalist, and social and political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader of, and media spokeswoman for, the women’s liberation movement/was an American writer, activist, and feminist

Question 35

Standoff at Wounded Knee

Answer 35

when approximately 200 Oglala Lakota and followers of the American Indian Movement