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Question 1

1955

Civil Rights

Answer 1

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Question 2

1956

Civil Rights

Answer 2

South Carolina outlawed bus segregation

Question 3

1957

Civil Rights

Answer 3

Little Rock 9 desegregate public schools

Question 4

1962

Civil Rights

Answer 4

James Meredith integrates college (Ole Miss)

Question 5

1963

Civil Rights

Answer 5

March on Washington. “I have a dream” speech. Point of march was to pass Civil Rights Bill of 1964, which outlawed segregation

Question 6

1964

Civil Rights

Answer 6

Freedom Summer.

Question 7

1965

Civil Rights

Answer 7

• Riots break out
• Selma Campaign
• Malcolm X Shot Civil rights bill of 1965, which outlawed literacy tests

Question 8

1968

Civil Rights

Answer 8

• Kerner Commission
• Civil Rights Act of 1968, which banned housing discrimination
• Martin Luther King Jr. shot
• Bobby Kennedy shot
• Democratic Convention

Question 9

Civil Rights

Answer 9

different from civil liberties, equal protection under the law

Question 10

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Answer 10

1955. Began with Rosa Parks. Sparked an organized movement to act. Montgomery Improvement Association organized it. Led by MLK Jr. 90% of AA community participated, boycotted for 381 days.

Question 11

De jure Segregation

Answer 11

segregation by law

Question 12

De facto segregation

Answer 12

segregation by fact or custom

Question 13

Freedom Summer

Answer 13

registering black voters. Klansmen begin racial beatings and murders along with burning businesses, churches and homes

Question 14

Kerner Commission

Answer 14

1968. Issued its report appointed by Johnson; said that our nation is moving towards 2 societies; one black and one white- seperate and unequal. Called for: new jobs, new housing, and end defacto segregation

Question 15

“War on Poverty”

Answer 15

Quote from LBJ in response to lots of riots. Wanted to try to “end poverty for good”, failed financially due to the war in Vietnam

Question 16

Brown vs. Board of Education

Answer 16

1954. Brown wins, segregation in schools is illegal and wrong. Supreme Court unanimously struck down segregation in schooling as an unconstitutional violation of the 14th Amendment

Question 17

NAACP

Answer 17

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Came up with strategy to fight for black rights in the court

Question 18

KKK

Answer 18

Klu Klux Klan. Made up of white southeners looking to keep blacks 2nd in society. Did many vicious crimes to AAs, such as lynchings.

Question 19

MIA

Answer 19

Montgomery Improvement Association. Organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Question 20

Black Panthers

Answer 20

political party for AAs to fight police brutality in the ghettos.

Question 21

Little Rock 9

Answer 21

9 High School students who integrated High School in Alabama

Question 22

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Answer 22

Led Montgomery Bus Boycott, March on Washington and Selma. Wanted non-violent resistance, called “Soul Force”.

Question 23

Malcolm X

Answer 23

African American Muslim minister and civil rights activist. Wanted confrontation from AAs. Preached about Racial Pride, advocated for armed self-defense. Attitudes towards whites changed after trip to Mecca. Assassinated in 1965

Question 24

Seperate but Equal

Answer 24

term used after Plessy vs. Fergusen to support segregation

Question 25

Jim Crow Laws

Answer 25

An example of de facto segregation, this seperated social and religious contact. Facilities provided for blacks were always inferior, accompanied with humiliatig signs, such as "colored water", "No blacks allowed", "Whites only".

Question 26

Sit-ins

Answer 26

SNCC harnessed the energy of black students by organizing these where blacks would sit in a white-only lunch counter and refuse to leave until they were served. They were trained to take whatever tormenting or harm. 

Question 27

non-violent resistance

Answer 27

phrase coined by MLK Jr, means that blacks were never to respond to segregation and unequal treatment with violence of any kind.

Question 28

Black Power

Answer 28

term coined by Stokely Carmichael. A call for black people to take back control with violence. 

Question 29

Civil Rights act of 1875

Answer 29

tried to outlaw segregation after civil war, but Plessey vs. Fergusen over ruled it.

Question 30

Plessy vs. Fergusen

Answer 30

1896. Plessy, an AA, says that Jim Crow laws are unconstitutional. The supreme court rules segregation is legal as long as facilities are "separate but equal".

Question 31

SNCC

Answer 31

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Organized Student sit-ins

Question 32

SCLC

Answer 32

Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Question 33

CORE

Answer 33

Congress of Racial Equality. Continued sit-ins in Northern cities, such as Chicago. 

Question 34

Rosa Parks

Answer 34

refuse to give up her bus seat. Unofficially started Montgomery Bus Boycott

Question 35

Freedom Riders

Answer 35

black and white activists who started to ride busses throughout the south and were abused with extreme brutality.