Unit 8 (Recall Questions)

Question 1

Brown v Board of Education

Answer 1

overturned “separate but equal” and desegregated schools

Question 2

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Answer 2

outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender and national origin

Question 3

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Answer 3

outlawed literacy tests and other barriers aimed at keeping members of the African-American community from voting

Question 4

Emmett Till

Answer 4

14 year old who was brutally murdered and whose death, for many, became a catalyst for involvement in the Civil Rights Movement

Question 5

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Answer 5

Triggered by the arrest of Rosa Parks, this event is considered by many as the beginning of the Civil Rights movement

Question 6

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Answer 6

Leader of the Civil Rights movement, preached nonviolence

Question 7

A “sit-in” in _________ prompted them to break out in 30 more cities around the United States

Answer 7

Greensboro

Question 8

in 1957, why did President Eisenhower send federal troops to Little Rock, Arkansas?

Answer 8

to enforce the Supreme Court’s decision to desegregate public schools

Question 9

Freedom Riders

Answer 9

Protesters who rode through the Deep South to end segregation of interstate transportation

Question 10

During what event did Martin Luther King Jr. deliver his famous “I have a dream” speech?

Answer 10

The March on Washington

Question 11

Most modern historians regard the civil rights movement of the mid-twentieth century as a continuation of the longer struggle for racial equality that began during…

Answer 11

Reconstruction