Unit 9 Civil Rights

Question 1

Civil rights leader and one of the founders of the SCLC, who used non-violent tactics to bring attention to and to change laws that protected gains racial discrimination

Answer 1

MArtin Luther King

Question 2

Her refusal to give up her seat to a white man on the bus led to the Montgomery bus boycott

Answer 2

Rosa parks

Question 3

MLK’s speech at the lincoln memorial in Washington dc that was given in support of passage of the civil rights act of 1964 that would end segregation and discrimination in employment. The speech was known as what?

Answer 3

“I have a dream”

Question 4

An NAACP, lawyer who supported civil rights through the legal system, successfully argued Brown vs. Board of Education case before the supreme court and was appointed as the supreme court’s first African American justice?

Answer 4

Thurgood Marshall

Question 5

As a way to efficiently get out information, they were used to organize protests, boycotts, and community action during the civil rights movement?

Answer 5

Churches

Question 6

The best known resistance to school desegregation occurred when gov. faubus called the national guard to prevent 9 African American students from attending an all white high school. President Eisenhower responded by sending in the US soldiers to ensure the 9 students could attend class. In what city and state did this happen?

Answer 6

Little Rock, Arkansas

Question 7

what was the name given to the segregation laws that separated people based on race?

Answer 7

Jim Crow laws

Question 8

This law ended the literacy test and any other means used by states to disenfranchise (prevent) African Americans from voting. It also ensured that if states did not register eligible American citizens to vote, the federal government would do it for them.

Answer 8

Voting Rights 1965

Question 9

Effort to add an amendment that would guarantee “equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged on account of sex.” The effort stalled when some Americans feared that women’s liberation was a threat to traditional American life. What was the name of the amendment?

Answer 9

ERA

Question 10

Co-founder of the united farm workers union, he adopted the tactics of nonviolent protests, including a grape boycott, to bring attention to and build sympathy for farm workers in order to provide better pay and working conditions.

Answer 10

Cesar Chavez

Question 11

Betty Friedan identified the “problem that has no name” discovering women dissatisfied with their role as a housewife. WHat was the name of her booK?

Answer 11

Feminine Mystique

Question 12

The issue of whether african americans could use the same facilities as whites, was decided by the Supreme Court in 1896 when it ruled “separate but equal” facilities did not violate the constitution. what was the name of the court case?

Answer 12

Plessy vs. Ferguson

Question 13

Supreme court decision that overturned plessy v. ferguson and called for the integration of public schools in 1954?

Answer 13

Brown vs. Board

Question 14

this group brought awareness to the fact that the federal ban on segregation in interstate travel facilities was not being enforced

Answer 14

freedom riders

Question 15

this civil rights law banned discrimination when renting or selling a home?

Answer 15

Civil rights act 1968

Question 16

nation of islam leader who called for the segregation of blacks from the white society and disagreed with MLK’s philosophy of nonviolent resistance?

Answer 16

Malcolm X

Question 17

president who after the events in birmingham, called on congress to pass major civil rights law , but did not live to see it passed?

Answer 17

John F. Kennedy