African American Civil Rights Activism: Milestones and Challenges

1. Civil Rights

3. Question 1 - 10 • What did African Americans do in response to the arrest of Rosa Parks?

4. Answer 1 – 10 • Organized a bus boycott

5. Question 1 - 20 • The SNCC successfully desegregated many restaurants by using?

6. Answer 1 – 20 • Sit-ins

7. Question 1 - 30 • The Southern Manifesto encouraged white Southerners to?

8. Answer 1 – 30 • Defy the “Brown vs. Board of Education” ruling – school desegregation.

9. Question 1 - 40 • In Little Rock, Arkansas, Governor Orval Faubus tried to prevent African American students from entering Central High School by?

10. Answer 1 – 40 • Using the National Guard

11. Question 1 - 50 • The organization founded by student civil rights activists was the?

12. Answer 1 – 50 • SNCC

13. Question 2 - 10 • In Selma, Alabama, civil rights marchers were attacked by state troopers while campaigning for?

14. Answer 2 – 10 • Voting rights for African Americans

15. Question 2 - 20 • Which Supreme Court ruling legalized segregation?

16. Answer 2 – 20 • Plessy v. Ferguson

17. Question 2 - 30 • In the Supreme Court cases “Brown vs. Board of Education”, the court ruled that school segregation denied African Americans the “equal protection” promised by the 14th amendment because it?

18. Answer 2 – 30 • Caused psychological damage to African American students

19. Question 2 - 40 • The ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896 had established?

20. Answer 2 – 40 • The separate-but-equal doctrine

21. Question 2 - 50 • Dr. martin Luther King, Jr. believed the way to end segregation was through?

22. Answer 2 – 50 • Non-violent passive resistance

23. Question 3 - 10 • When first established, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference set out to end segregation and?

24. Answer 3 – 10 • Encourage African Americans to register to vote

25. Question 3 - 20 • The Freedom Riders were organized to draw attention to the South’s refusal to?

26. Answer 3 – 20 • Desegregate bus travel

27. Question 3 - 30 • Who had become a symbol of the black power movement that was sweeping the nation by the early 1960s, promoting violence and a rejection of white society?

28. Answer 3 – 30 • Malcolm X

29. Question 3 - 40 • The Civil rights Act of 1964 came up short of civil rights goals because it did little to?

30. Answer 3 – 40 • Secure voting rights for African Americans

31. Question 3 - 50 • In registering African Americans to vote, the Voting rights Act of 1965 authorized the government to?

32. Answer 3 – 50 • Send federal examiners to register qualified voters

33. Question 4 - 10 • After his pilgrimage to Mecca, Malcolm X concluded that?

34. Answer 4 – 10 • It was possible for whites and blacks to live together peacefully

35. Question 4 - 20 • Dr. King selected Selma, Alabama, for a protest march because?

36. Answer 4 – 20 • African Americans made up the majority of the population but very few were registered voters

37. Question 4 - 30 • In 1967, Thurgood Marshall became the first African American to?

38. Answer 4 – 30 • Serve on the U.S. Supreme Court

39. Question 4 - 40 • The bus boycott in Montgomery lasted for?

40. Answer 4 – 40 • About 1 year

41. Question 4 - 50 • In support of the strike by African American sanitation workers, Dr. King went to Memphis, Tennessee, where on April 4, 1968, he was?

42. Answer 4 – 50 • Assassinated

43. Question 5 - 10 • What group urged African Americans to arm themselves and confront white society in order to force whites to grant them equal rights?

44. Answer 5 – 10 • Black Panthers

45. Question 5 - 20 • In the 1978 affirmative action case, Universityof California Regents v. Bakke, the Supreme Court ruled that?

46. Answer 5 – 20 • Universities could not make race the only factor considered for acceptance

47. Question 5 - 30 • Outlawed segregation in most public facilities and also discrimination?

48. Answer 5 – 30 • Civil Rights Act of 1964

49. Question 5 - 40 • Outlawed poll taxes?

50. Answer 5 – 40 • 24th Amendment