Civil Rights Review

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Civil Rights Review
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What Supreme court case declared separate is
inherently unequal?

• Brown v. Board of Ed.

3
The murder of this individual united the civil
rights movement in 1955.

• Emmett Till

4
Martin Luther King Jr. was shot in this city in
this year.

• Memphis, TN 1968

5
MLK Jr. wrote his famous letter from a jail
defending his non-violent strategies in what
state?

• Alabama

6
What is de facto segregation?

• Segregation by custom, habit

7
Put the events in the correct order.

• Letter from a Birmingham Jail, Montgomery Bus
  Boycott, March on Washington, March from fear

8
The first African American to attend the
University of Mississippi

• James Meredith

9
Name two campaigns that led to the passage of the
Voting Rights Act of 1965

• Freedom Summer, Selma Campaign, MFDPs stand at
  the Democratic National Convention

10
What individual was chosen to represent the
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party at the 1964
Democratic National Convention?

• Fannie Lou Hamer

11
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 did what?

• Eliminated the literacy test

12
The founder of the Nation of Islam

• Elijah Muhammad

13
The Watts Riots took place in this city

• Los Angeles

14
This leader of SNCC eventually became a Black
Panther.

• Stokely Carmichael

15
The violence that resulted from MLK Jr.s
assassination may have influenced the violence
that led to the assassination of this political
leader in the same year.

• Robert Kennedy

16
The assassin of MLK Jr. was named

• James Earl Ray

17
The Civil Rights Act of 1968 did what?

• Banned discrimination in housing

18
The Kerner Commission blamed African American
rioting on

• White racism

19
What is the name for someone who rode buses in
the south to try and make sure southerners
subscribed to the laws on integration

• Freedom riders

20
MLK Jr. debuted on the national stage with his
help with this event.

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

21
SNCC stands for

• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

22
MLK JR. headed an organization called __________,
which stood for ________________

• SCLC, Southern Christian Leadership Conference

23
What man served as the Browns lawyer?

• Thurgood Marshall

24
Put the following events in chronological order

• Freedom Riders, Freedom Summer, Civil Rights Act
  of 1957

25
MLK Jrs I have a dream speech was given in
what city?

• Washington D.C.

26
This individual coined the slogan Black Power.

• Stokely Carmichael

27
The main goal of this political group was to
fight police brutality in the ghetto.

• Black Panthers

28
This policy involves making special efforts to
hire or enroll groups that have suffered
discrimination in the past.

• Affirmative Action

29
This man led the voter project in Mississippi
during the summer of 1964.

• Robert Moses

30
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 did what?

• Prohibited discrimination because of race,
  religion, national origin and gender.

31
The name of the hostile police chief in
Birmingham was?

• Bull Connor

32
Emmett Till was murdered in _________ (state) by
the husband and brother-in-law of ________.

• Mississippi, Carolyn Bryant

33
The governor of Arkansas during the Little Rock
School Segregation crisis was named

• Governor Faubus

34
This girl was the most controversial of the
Little Rock Nine.

• Minnie Jean Brown

35
Put the events in chronological order.

• Little Rock, Emmett Till murder, Birmingham

36
Malcolm Xs shift from a believer in the use of
violence to the use of vote after his split from
the Black Muslims can be described in this phrase.

• Ballots or bullets