unit 9 history

Question 1

Thurgood Marshall

Answer 1

1st African American supreme court justice; played a vital role in ending legal segregation

Question 2

Bull Conner

Answer 2

Eugene “Bull” Conner was the Birmingham, Alabama public safety commissioner; opposed the civil rights movement; had protesters jailed and besieged by water hoses and attack dogs

Question 3

Storm Thurmond

Answer 3

US senator in South Carolina known for pro-segregation policies; but had a biracial daughter; helped push against the supreme court’s decision to end segregation in public schools

Question 4

Orval Faubus

Answer 4

governor of Arkansas, called the national guard to keep a group of African American students from entering a high school

Question 5

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Answer 5

rallies to boycott buses’ this hurt the bus companies, this ended when the supreme court ruled that segregating buses was unconstitutional

Question 6

Clinton High School

Answer 6

African American parents in Clinton, TN sued the school board for their children’s rights to attend the school

Question 7

Clinton 12

Answer 7

broke the color barrier in k-12 education in the south

Question 8

Freedom Riders

Answer 8

white and African American civil rights activists who would protest segregated bus terminals, restrooms, lunch counters, and bus stations in Alabama, South Carolina, etc.

Question 9

the right to vote

Answer 9

African Americans fought for the right to vote as a by-product of there being a lack of black jurors for the trial of a black man being tried for the murder of a white man

Question 10

Original Fayette County Civic and Welfare League & Haywood County Civic and Welfare League

Answer 10

used to combat whites attempt to use disenfranchisement methods, started voter registration drives, whites used their privilege to make African Americans lose their jobs, credit, get evicted, etc.

Question 11

Sit-ins

Answer 11

non-violent protests technique to desegregate lunch counters and businesses

Question 12

marches

Answer 12

like the March on Washington; large groups of people protest

Question 13

Boycotts

Answer 13

withdraw from commercial or social relations with a country, organization, or person as a protest

Question 14

1964

Answer 14

outlaws segregation in public areas

Question 15

1965

Answer 15

prohibited the use of literacy tests

Question 16

1968

Answer 16

got rid of discrimination in housing

Question 17

24th Amendment

Answer 17

prohibited states from using poll taxes

Question 18

Chicano Movement

Answer 18

civil rights movement for Mexican Americans

Question 19

goals of Chicano movement

Answer 19

1. restoration of land
2. rights for farmers
3. education reforms

Question 20

American Indian Movement

Answer 20

Native American civil movement

Question 21

American Indian Movement goals

Answer 21

1. economic independence
2. revitalization of traditional culture
3. legal rights
4. autonomy over tribal land

Question 22

Feminist Movement

Answer 22

protesting led to the gov passing a law that prohibited discrimination of gender