Chapter 28: Civil Rights Movement

Question 1

Booker T Washington

Answer 1

put up with segregation for the time being; good citizen

Question 2

WEB DeBois

Answer 2

wanted equality now

Question 3

Little Rock crisis

Answer 3

governor called in national guard on 9 black students from entering the school; couldn’t get in for 3 weeks; Eisenhower sent US troops to protect students in Central High School in Arkansas; 1957

Question 4

Plessy v Ferguson

Answer 4

supreme court ruled “separate but equal”

Question 5

Montgomery, Alabama

Answer 5

Rosa Parks refused to give her seat to a white man and arrested; NAACP member; Montgomery Bus Boycott led to Supreme Court ruling of segregation busses illegal; creation of SCLC

Question 6

SCLC

Answer 6

southern Christian leadership conference; MLK selected to be group leader; protest activities across the south with nonviolence

Question 7

Ghandi

Answer 7

spiritual leader in India who inspired MLK to be nonviolent

Question 8

Sit-In Movement

Answer 8

Greensboro, North Carolina; Woolworth’s at segregated lunch counter; 4 back college students refused service; protesters joined in with nonviolence and no disprution

Question 9

Freedom Riders

Answer 9

1960; Supreme Court ruled bus station facilities for interstate travelers must be open to all passengers; CORE sent group on bus through the Deep South

Question 10

Robert Kennedy sent

Answer 10

federal marshalls to Montgomery to protect riders

Question 11

interstate commerce commission

Answer 11

forced integration of bus and train stations

Question 12

James Meredith

Answer 12

enrolled at University of Mississippi; 50 federal marshals met with 2,500 violent protesters; Kennedy sent troops; hundreds injured and 2 killed

Question 13

George Wallace

Answer 13

governor of Alabama; blocked Vivian Malone and James Hood from enrolling in the University of Alabama

Question 14

Albany movement

Answer 14

sit in; Albany bus station; MLK lead demonstrations and got arrested; 9 month movement; failed

Question 15

the campaign

Answer 15

MLK hoped to motivate more people; white clergy attacked MLK in newspaper add; “letter from Birmingham jail” speech from MLK

Question 16

Eugene Connor

Answer 16

police chief; “bull”; used firefighters to break up 2,500 student protesters

Question 17

Medgar Evers

Answer 17

head of NAACP in Mississippi and assassinated

Question 18

Byron De La Bechwith

Answer 18

KKK member; tried for the crime but failed to convict all-white jury; tried the 3rd time

Question 19

march on Washington

Answer 19

Aug 28, 1963; 200,000 people marched and protested; “I have a dream” MLK speech

Question 20

Johnson signed

Answer 20

the civil rights act of 1964 banning discrimination in public accommodations

Question 21

voter education project

Answer 21

registered African Americans to vote; registered more than half a million

Question 22

24th amendment

Answer 22

banned poll tax

Question 23

freedom summer

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college students volunteered to spend the summer registering African Americans to vote; volunteers registered and taught schools

Question 24

Andrew Goodman

Answer 24

freedom summer volunteer; went missing on June 21, 1964; 2 CORE workers and himself went to a church bombing; Johnson ordered massive hunt on 3; bodies discovered in Mississippi; 21 suspects tried for violating civil rights laws

Question 25

17,000 African Americans

Answer 25

signed up to vote in Mississippi but they only took 1,600

Question 26

SNCC

Answer 26

student nonviolent coordination committee

Question 27

Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

Answer 27

SNCC helped form; elected 68 delegates to the Democratic National Convention so it wasn't white-only

Question 28

Selma, Alabama

Answer 28

MLK organized a march for voting rights and arrested; 4 day march from Selma to Montgomery; 600 African Americans on 54 mile march; police set blockade and were broadcast on TV

Question 29

voting rights act

Answer 29

Johnson passed; one of the most important pieces of the civil rights legislation

Question 30

de jure segregation

Answer 30

segregation by law

Question 31

de facto segregation

Answer 31

segregation that exists through custom and practice

Question 32

Watts and Detroit

Answer 32

there were major riots

Question 33

Kerner Commission

Answer 33

study cause of urban rioting; poverty and discrimination

Question 34

Stokely Carmiechel

Answer 34

leader of SNCC; abandoned philosophy of nonviolence; black power; wanted African Americans to depend on themselves to solve problems

Question 35

black panthers

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Oakland, California; violent revolution; members carried guns

Question 36

black muslims

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Nation of Islam; believed in black power; black nationalism, self reliance, and discipline

Question 37

Malcom X

Answer 37

offered message of hope, defiance, and black pride; went to Mecca for spiritual trip and decided not to be violent; assassinated

Question 38

death of MLK

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April 4,1968; James Earl Ray; shot on hotel balcony in Memphis; riots erupted

Question 39

Ralph Abernathy

Answer 39

new leader of SCLC; poor people’s campaign (lead people to capital to ask for help); terrible media; disaster; failed to clearly express the protesters needs and demands; bad weather

Question 40

black power movement

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J Edgar Hoover (FBI director) had spies on groups of the movement; considered MLK and black power movement threat to society

Question 41

civil rights act of 1968

Answer 41

banned discrimination of the sale of rental housing (also fair housing act)

Question 42

affirmative location

Answer 42

program that gave reference to minorities and women in hiring and admissions to make up for past discrimination

Question 43

Thurgood Marshall

Answer 43

Supreme Court 1st African American justice

Question 44

John Lewis

Answer 44

represented people of Alabama for Congress

Question 45

Andrew Young

Answer 45

Georgias first African American member of congress

Question 46

Jesse Jackson

Answer 46

operation PUSH and campaigned for Democratic presidential nomination in the 1980’s