Civil Rights Essay

Question 1

SNCC

Answer 1

Southern Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Question 2

Southern Student Organizing Committee

Answer 2

Sam Shirah, Sue Thrasher, Bob Zeller

Question 3

March on Washington in 1963

Answer 3

One of the largest, most successful demonstrations in U.S. History - “I have a Dream” speech

Question 4

March to Montgomery in 1965

Answer 4

March from Selma to Mongomery, Alabama - led by Martin Luther King, Jr.

Question 5

Malcolm X

Answer 5

Thought that black violence should counter white violence in order to create change

Question 6

The Black Panthers 1966

Answer 6

Huey Newton and Bobby Seale

Question 7

Brown v. Board of Education

Answer 7

Thurgood Marshall and Earl Warren

Question 8

Governor George Wallace

Answer 8

Wanted to stop one African American student from attending the University of Alabama

Question 9

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Answer 9

spurred by the brutality in Selma, Alabama - authorized federal regulation of voting

Question 10

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Answer 10

made possible by the Civil Right Act

Question 11

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Answer 11

made segregation illegal in all public facilities