civil rights history class

Question 1

1896

Answer 1

plessy v ferguson

Question 2

1941-1945

Answer 2

US involvement in ww2

Question 3

1950

Answer 3

Korean war begins

Question 4

1954

Answer 4

brown v board of education

Question 5

1955-1975

Answer 5

war in veitnam

Question 6

1957

Answer 6

sputnik

Question 7

1960

Answer 7

semiconductor integrated circut

Question 8

1963

Answer 8

JFK assisinated

Question 9

1964

Answer 9

civil rights act

Question 10

1968

Answer 10

MLK and Bobby assassinated

Question 11

1969

Answer 11

Woodstock and the harlem culutral festival

Question 12

1974

Answer 12

Nixon resigns

Question 13

Lee Harvey Oswald

Answer 13

marine vet who killed JFK in 1963

Question 14

Isaac Woodard

Answer 14

AA veteran riding a bus with fellow white friends
Woodward not respected by bus driver
woodward get beaten by the police officers while in jail
gets beaten in his eyes and goes blind

Question 15

Emmett Till

Answer 15

september 1957
moes wright
14 yr old beaten by white men
broke segregation rule
open casket funeral
beaten and shot at
spread on news and TV
lost trial

Question 16

Medgar Evers

Answer 16

civil rights activist
solider in naacp first field secretary

Question 17

16th St Church Bombing

Answer 17

terrorist bombing in alabama in 16th st baptist church
done by white supremacist terrorist groups

Question 18

Plessy v Ferguson

Answer 18

1896
separate but equal

Question 19

Brown v Board

Answer 19

overturning separate but equal
1954 got rid of segregation in public school

Question 20

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Answer 20

on the afternoon of Rosa Parks court appearance
lead by MLK
in montgomery alabama

Question 21

SCLC

Answer 21

Southern Christian Leadership Conference MLK established it in 1957
goal to eliminate segregation and encourage AA to vote

Question 22

Why did school desegregation go so slow?

Answer 22

southern states
federal law

Question 23

Did Eisenhower agree with Brown v Board- why or why not? How did he respond and why?

Answer 23

Eisenhower didn’t fully agree with Brown v board, he didn’t like dealing with racial issues. Eisenhower failed to speak out at the court’s ruling

Question 24

Crisis in Little Rock

Answer 24

september 1957, court ordered 9 AA to main high school in Little Rock
When kids entered white mobs attacked
governor ordered troops to stop the AA from entering
Eisenhower sent guards down to the school to protect for the rest of the year

Question 25

Sit-ins

Answer 25

Joseph mcneil, ezell blair jr, david richmond, franklin mccain, started sit ins feb 1, 1960 first sit ins started and became very popular it was when black people would sit in diners and not be violent and not leave even if they would pour stuff on them or yell

Question 26

SNCC

Answer 26

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee key role in desegregating public areas sent volunteers to the deep south

Question 27

Freedom Riders

Answer 27

1961, james farmer and others went south to desegregate busses once they arrived angry white mobs attacked them police in the south had invited KKK to be where the freedom riders were

Question 28

Kennedy’s response?

Answer 28

asked them to “cool off” did make sure there was no violence when they entered mississippi

Question 29

James Meredith

Answer 29

applied for transfer to uni of mississippi governor blocked his path kennedy sent troops to escort meredith, then riot erupted sent thousands of troops to help bc many wounded

Question 30

Birmingham

Answer 30

king need to provoke violence for JFK to support civil rights commissioner bull conner running for mayor King gets arrested and writes letter from birmingham jail

Question 31

Bull Conner

Answer 31

very opposed to civil rights

Question 32

Letter from Birmingham Jail

Answer 32

MLK wrote from jail recommending peaceful actions

Question 33

Civil Rights Bill of 1964

Answer 33

Alabama's governor said segregation today, tomorrow, and forever signed off on july 2, 1964 acts focused on desegregation and job discrimination

Question 34

How did JFK’s assassination help to get this passed?

Answer 34

kennedy announced the bill but once passed away LBJ passed the civil rights act

Question 35

Role of the March on Washington?

Answer 35

advocating for civil and economic rights where Dr. King delivered his famous speech i have a dream

Question 36

Selma March

Answer 36

january 1965 selma to montgomery where they wanted secure voting rights violently attacked and called bloody sunday

Question 37

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Answer 37

august 4, 1965 voting rights act was authorized this law had suspending literacy tests results ended with many people registering to vote

Question 38

Urban problems

Answer 38

people still prejudice over AA poverty with African Americans crime rate increased in low income areas

Question 39

Watts Riot

Answer 39

5 days after voting rights signed rioters burned and looted neighborhoods riots continued to break out between 1965-1968

Question 40

Stokely Carmichael

Answer 40

key leader in the development of the black panthers

Question 41

Malcolm X

Answer 41

early 1960’ he became symbol of black movement his ideas help the black panthers ex member of the Black muslims killed by old nation of islam member in 1965

Question 42

Black Panthers

Answer 42

believed revolution was necessary

Question 43

MLK assassination

Answer 43

king went to tennessee for the poor peoples campaign during this april 4, 1968 he was shot in his hotel balcony