chapter 21

Question 1

Plessy v Ferguson

Answer 1

signs like “colored water” and “Whites Only” were the norm for more than 55 years

mixed

Question 2

NAACP

Answer 2

(National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
WEB Dubois
focused on inequalities of segregated public education

Question 3

Brown v Board of Education

Answer 3

girl denied admission to all white school

overturned plessy v ferguson

Question 4

Little rock 9

Answer 4

group of students in arkansas that went to school for the first time with whites
eisenhower sent 101st airborne

Question 5

Orval Faubus

Answer 5

tried to turn away the little rock 9

Question 6

four people that influenced MLK’s brand of non violent resistance called soul force

Answer 6

Jesus
Randolph
Gandhi
Thoreau

Question 7

freedom riders

Answer 7

hoped to integrate buses and bus terminals

Question 8

letter from a birmingham jail

Answer 8

MLK
protesting segregation in south
views on civil rights movement

Question 9

civil rights act of 1964

Answer 9

banned discrimination in public accommodations and employment
established equal employment opportunity commission

Question 10

freedom summer

Answer 10

campaign focused in Mississippi
began to register blacks to vote
3 civil rights workers killed

Question 11

voting rights act of 1965

Answer 11

eliminated literacy tests

Question 12

de facto segregation

Answer 12

based on practice and custom

Question 13

Watts neighborhood

Answer 13

LA
worst race riots in history
34 killed
hundreds of millions in damage

Question 14

Malcolm X

Answer 14

follower of nation of islam
philosophy of black superiority
radical (militant approach)

Question 15

Stokely Carmichael

Answer 15

called for black people to define their own goals
black power
changed from SNCC to black panthers

Question 16

James Earl Ray

Answer 16

MLK ended his march on a balcony in Memphis as a result of him

Question 17

Thurgood Marshall

Answer 17

NAACP lawyer
lead attorney of Brown v Board of education
first black american supreme court justice

Question 18

MLK

Answer 18

pastor until montgomery boycott

known for soul force

Question 19

Joe Jackson

Answer 19

civil rights leader
wanted direct action in positive form
build black community
voting was key

Question 20

Emmitt Till

Answer 20

case showed blacks weren’t treated fair in courts

murdered for whistling

Question 21

affirmative action

Answer 21

seeks to correct past discrimination
favored previously disadvantaged
first used for education and job opportunities

Question 22

Jim Crow Laws

Answer 22

wanted blacks separate

voting
sitting on juries
appearing in public with whites

Question 23

three ways blacks were kept from voting

Answer 23

literact test
poll tax
grandfather clause

Question 24

nation of islam

Answer 24

based off teachings of Elijah Muhammed
preached that whites were cause of black condition
blacks should separate from white society
defend themselves

Question 25

sncc

Answer 25

student nonviolent coordinating committee

confrontational
students

Question 26

sclc

Answer 26

southern Christian leadership conference

marches and protests
older and church leaders

Question 27

how did Kennedy help the freedom riders

Answer 27

sent 400 us marshals to protect riders

Question 28

March on Washington

Answer 28

demand congress to pass civil rights bill

A Phillip Randolph

I have a dream speech

Question 29

March from Selma to Montgomery

Answer 29

violent

wanted to have a new voting rights act to register black voter

Question 30

de jure segregation

Answer 30

segregation by law

Question 31

Malcolm x after Mecca

Answer 31

equality

integrate

Question 32

black panthers

Answer 32

political party to fight police brutality