Unveiling the Civil Rights Struggle: Key Events and Figures

1. Civil Rights Chapter 21

3. Question 1 - 10 • Because of this, signs like “colored water” and “Whites Only” were the norm for more than 55 years.

4. Answer 1 – 10 • Plessy v. Ferguson

5. Question 1 - 20 • W.E.B Dubois started this organization in 1905. It’s legal strategy in the 1950’s was focused on the most glaring inequalities of segregated public education.

6. Answer 1 – 20 • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

7. Question 1 - 30 • Linda was denied admission to an all-white school four blocks from her home. Her court case changed the way schools look today.

8. Answer 1 – 30 • Brown v. Board of Education • Linda Brown’s case overturned Plessy v. Ferguson’s ruling of separate but equal.

9. Question 1 - 40 • Governor Orval Faubus tried to turn away this group in Arkansas in an attempt to keep the schools segregated.

10. Answer 1 – 40 • Little Rock 9 • President Eisenhower sent the 101st airborne to enforce the court ruling ending segregation in schools.

11. Question 1 - 50 • These four influenced MLK’s brand of non-violent resistance called Soul Force.

12. Answer 1 – 50 • Jesus, Thoreau, Gandhi, and Randolph

13. Question 2 - 10

14. Answer 2 – 10 • Freedom Riders • They hoped to integrate buses and bus terminals

15. Question 2 - 20 • Protesting segregation in the most segregated city in the South, MLK writes this most famous reply in jail, outlining his view of the civil rights movement.

16. Answer 2 – 20 • Letter from a Birmingham Jail.

17. Question 2 - 30 • What does the Civil Rights Act of 1964 do?

18. Answer 2 – 30 • Banned discrimination in public accomodations and in employment • Established Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

19. Question 2 - 40 • This campaign, focused in Mississippi, began to register African-Americans to vote. 3 civil rights workers were killed for their service to humanity.

20. Answer 2 – 40 • Freedom Summer

21. Question 2 - 50 • This eliminated literacy tests, which began in 1870, after reconstruction ended.

22. Answer 2 – 50 • Voting Rights Act of 1965

23. Question 3 - 10 • This type of segregation was based on practice and custom.

24. Answer 3 – 10 • De facto segregation. • De jure segregation was based on segregation by law.

25. Question 3 - 20 • This neighborhood in Los Angeles was the scene of one of the worst race riots in American history.

26. Answer 3 – 20 • Watts. • 34 people killed, hundreds of millions of dollars in damages. This scared white America.

27. Question 3 - 30 • His philosophy of black superiority and racial separation changed after his trip to Mecca.

28. Answer 3 – 30 • Malcolm X • A follower of the Nation of Islam, his trip to Mecca changed his whole outlook on the racial situation in America.

29. Question 3 - 40 • This young man called for “black people to define their own goals.” It was later called Black Power.

30. Answer 3 – 40 • Stokely Carmichael

31. Question 3 - 50 • Martin Luther King ended “his” march on a balcony in Memphis in 1968 as a result of this man.

32. Answer 3 – 50 • James Earl Ray.

33. Question 4 - 10 • NAACP Lawyer, lead attorney in Brown v. Board, first African-American Supreme Court Justice.

34. Answer 4 – 10 • Thurgood Marshall

35. Question 4 - 20 • Pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church until the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955 made this civil rights leader a national figure. • Known for “Soul Force.”

36. Answer 4 – 20 • Martin Luther King, Jr.

37. Question 4 - 30 • This leader of the Civil Rights movement appealed to frustration over a lack of social and economic power for African-Americans. He preached a more militant approach to civil rights than did others.

38. Answer 4 – 30 • Malcolm X

39. Question 4 - 40 • This civil rights leaders “battle cry,” black power became the slogan for militant civil rights activists. He changed his affiliation from SNCC to the Black Panthers.

40. Answer 4 – 40 • Stokely Carmichael

41. Question 4 - 50 • This civil rights leader wanted Direct Action in the form of building up the negro community, not tearing down the white community. He stressed that voting was key to reaching civil rights.

42. Answer 4 – 50 • Joe Jackson

43. Question 5 - 10 • This young man’s brutal murderers were acquitted of any crime, showing that there was an inequality of justice in Mississippi.

44. Answer 5 – 10 • Emmitt Till • His case showed that blacks weren’t getting a fair shake in the courts.

45. Question 5 - 20 • This policy seeks to correct past discrimination by favoring the previously disadvantaged. It’s first uses were in education and job opportunities.

46. Answer 5 – 20 • Affirmative Action

47. Question 5 - 30 • Laws passed after the Civil War to keep former slaves and whites separate. Named for a character in a minstrel show of the 1830’s.

48. Answer 5 – 30 • Jim Crow Laws. They prohibited African-Americans from voting, sitting on juries, appearing in public places with whites.

49. Question 5 - 40 • What three ways were African-Americans kept from voting?

50. Answer 5 – 40 • Literacy test, poll tax, grandfather clause • Grandfather clause banned by Supreme Court ruling in 1915 • Literacy test eliminated by the Civil Rights Act of 1965 • Poll tax deemed unconstitutional by 24th amendment in 1964