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Civil Rights
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Officials in one Louisiana city did not want to welcome black students into their public schools. Finally, four African American elementary school students entered the city’s public schools under the protection of US Marshals. | New Orleans school integration. |
| The purpose of this short series of marches was to protest the lack of voting rights for African American. | Selma-Montgomery March. |
| Four African American college students sparked a nationwide sit-in movement when they sat at a “whites only” lunch counter and refused to leave without services. | Greensboro four. |
| This set of laws, considered one of the major achievements of the Civil Rights Movement, mandated specific protections for all Americans, including rules against segregation and discrimination. | Civil Rights Act 1964. |
| These African American high school students were the first to attend Central High School, in Arkansas, while under the protection of the US Army troops. | Little Rock Nine. |
| Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr was arrested during this series of protests. The protests led to the end of segregation in an Alabama city. | Birmingham Demonstrations. |
| To protest, continued segregation on buses traveling from state to state, black passengers and white passengers purposely sat together despite threats of violence. | Freedom Riders. |
| In this Supreme Court decision, justices declared to the nation that separate can never be equal. Segregation in schools was ruled illegal. | Brown v. BOE. |
| African Americans in a large Alabama city walked, biked and carpooled everywhere they needed to go for a little over a year to protest segregated seating on their city buses. | Montgomery Bus Boycott. |
| This event with over 250,000 participants was designed to draw attention to the ‘continued discrimination faced by African Americans. | March on Washington. |
| This time in our nation’s history was full of struggle, protest, bravery, and ultimately change. | Civil Rights Movement. |
| “We had the right to vote but we faced continual discrimination when we tried to exercise that right. It wasn’t fair, so we decided to march peacefully to our state capitol so that we could bring attention to our lack of full voting rights.” | Selma-Montgomery March. |
| “We know that integrating schools will be a long difficult struggle, but the Supreme Court got it right with their decision.” | Brown v. BOE |
| “I wish you’d been there. The energy in the crowd was like nothing I’d ever felt before. We truly made a difference. | March on Washington. |
| “I was terrified, but I gathered all my courage and walked into Central High School with my classmates.” | Little Rock Nine. |
| “I remember the unrest throughout our city. I felt so sad for the little girls who had to put on a brave face and walk into their first-grade classroom escorted by US Marshals.” | New Orleans school integration. |
| “He was taken from us much too soon, but his messages of peace and love continue to inspire Americans today.” | Assassination of Dr. King |
| “I saw those young people sitting peacefully while enduring verbal and physical abuse. Their quiet bravery inspired me to organize a sit-in in my town’s drugstore.” | Greensboro four. |
| “Segregation ended in our city but that hard-earned victory came with a heavy price, including arrests, jail time, and intentional cruelty toward adults and children alike.” | Birmingham Demonstrations. |
| “Rain, snow, sore feet, worn out shoes, I will walk until I can sit freely.” | Montgomery Bus Boycott. |
| “This legislation was a major victory because what we wanted was finally written down and signed by the President of the United States. No More segregation or discrimination!” | Civil Rights Act 1964. |
| “I will ride these buses for as long as it takes for the US Government to enforce the rules against segregation on buses traveling between states,” | Freedom Riders. |
| What part of the United States continued to struggle with discrimination and even after slavery had ended? | The south. |
| Although slavery had ended in the United States, African American were still struggling due to what law? | The Jim Crow laws. |
| How did many white parents react to the public schools being Integrated in New Orleans | They spit on them, they yelled racial slurs at them, threw things at them, and then took their kids out of school. |
| How long did it take schools in New Orleans to fully integrate? | About 10 years. |
| How did Bull Connor affect the Birmingham protests? | He used firehoses and dogs to attack the kids. |
| Where and why did Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr write ‘Letter from a Birmingham Jail? | It was to inspire people to peacefully protest. He wrote it in jail. |
| How did local children become involved in the Birmingham protests? | Because parents had to work and could not do it. |
| Why was 1963 an important year for African Americans? | Because it was the 100th year of the Emancipation Proclamation. |
| Who were the two American presidents were involved in planning for and signing the Civil Rights act into law? | President John F. Kennedy, and President Lyndon B. Johson. |
| How did President Lyndon Johnson react to the Selma-Montgomery marches? | He went on national tv to support the voting Rights Act and sent 4,000 troops to protect them. |
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