Women And African Americans

Question 1

What was the brown vs board of education

Answer 1

17 May 1954

Supreme Court agreed that segregation in school is unconstitutional

Question 2

What was the murder if emmet till

Answer 2

August 1955 Emmet till is kidnapped, beaten and shot while visiting family. He was killed for whistling at a white woman

Question 3

What was the bus boycott

Answer 3

1 December 1955 Rosa parks refuses to give up her seat for a white person. In response to her arrest montogomery black community launch a bus boycott
The buses were desegregated in 21 December 1956

Question 4

What was the Little Rock

Answer 4

September 1957
9 black students were blocked from enetering the school on orders of the governor
President Eisenhower sent guards to protect the student

Question 5

Freedom riders

Answer 5

May 4 1961
Student volunteers began taking bus trips through th south to test out new laws that prohibit segregation in interstate travel facilities. They were called freedom riders as they were attacked by angry mobs along the way

Question 6

Civil rights act 1964

Answer 6

Prohibits all discrimination based on race, colour, religion, or national origin. It also gave federal government powers to enforese desegregation

Question 7

Voting rights act 1965

Answer 7

Ensured all a,Erica s had right to vote

Question 8

Sit ins

Answer 8

February 1 1960
4 black students from North Carolina began a sit in at Woolworths lunch bar. They were refused service.
This triggered many similar non violent protests throughout the south. 6 months later the 4 protesters were served lunch at the bar
Sit ins took place in pools, theatres, library’s

Question 9

Civil rights protest

Answer 9

May 1963
Civil rights protest in Birmingham Alabama. Commissioner of public safety used fire hoses and police dogs on black demonstrators. The images of brutality were televised and viewed publicly and were gaining sympathy for the civil rights movement

Question 10

March on Washington

Answer 10

28 August 1963

200 000 joined the march on Washington. MLK I have a dream speech

Question 11

What was the Nation of Islam

Answer 11

Argued for separatism. Said white society was racist and corrupt and rejected Christianity as a white mans religion. Best known member was Malcom X

Question 12

What was the black panther party

Answer 12

Formed in California in 1966 had 5000 members in 1968. Extreme militant group rejected kings non violent approaches. It argued blacks has to protect themselves from white racists using violence if nesesary

Question 13

What did Malcolm x believe

Answer 13

Violence was nessary to bring about change

Question 14

Why did black power movement decline quickly

Answer 14

Organisation was poor and had little money

Government preferred kings peaceful methods to the hatred and violence of black power

Question 15

How did the black power help Americans

Answer 15

Tried to help the inner city ghettos

Increased black pride and a sense of black nationalism

Question 16

How did the new frontier help the civil rights

Answer 16

Gave more important jobs to blacks

Created CEEO to ensure people employed in federal government had equal opportunity’s

Question 17

How did the new fronteir fail civil rights

Answer 17

The CEEO only helped those in employment and didn’t help find jobs for the unemployed blacks
He attempted to get MLK to call of the March on Washington

Question 18

How did the great society help the civil rights

Answer 18

1964 civil rights act passed which banned segregation and banned discrimination in employment

Question 19

How did great society fail the civil rights

Answer 19

In 1964 and 1965 blacks in Harlem, NY, LA rioted after blacks were shot by police
In 1968 more riots broke out due to MLK assassination

Question 20

What did the staus commission find

Answer 20

Women earned 60 less
95 percent of managers were me
4 percent of lawyers and 7 percent of Doctor were women
In some jobs women were dismissed if they were marries

Question 21

What was progress was made in 1965

Answer 21

All married couples allowed to use contraception

Question 22

1969

Answer 22

California adipted a no fault divorce law allowing couples to divorce by mutual consent

Question 23

1972

Answer 23

Educational amendment act. Bans sexual discrimination in education
Equal rights amendments that equality of rights under the law could not be denied based on sex

Question 24

1973

Answer 24

Roe vs Wade

Jane roe allowed to have an abortion. Supreme Court ruled that women has the right to same and legal abortion

Question 25

Why was Betty fiedans book important

Answer 25

1963-feminine mystique Said women should have equal rights with men in every ways and that women should be allowed to Persue a good career

Question 26

What was the NOFW

Answer 26

National organisation for women that demanded quality rights in the law and a women right to make desicions with reproduction. Held protests. In a few years has 400,000 members

Question 27

Opposition to women’s rights

Answer 27

Many were anti abortion and anti premarital sex
Many women were happy with their status in society
Many women weren’t interested in feminism
Many religious groups used the bible to justify male dominace