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Question | Answer |
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Segregation by custom or tradition | De Facto |
Chief Justice of Supreme Court at the time of Brown v. Board of Education | Earl Warren |
Held to protest the arrest of Rosa Parks | Montgomery bus boycott |
Gave the US Attorney General greater power to protect the voting rights of African Americans | Civil Rights Act of 1957 |
Refused to relinquish a bus seat to a white passenger | Rosa Parks |
Segregation imposed by law | De Jure |
Enforced the strict separation of the races | Jim Crow Laws |
Belief of members of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) | Direct, nonviolent methods could gain civil rights for African Americans |
Civil Rights organization that won a number of important court cases against segregation in the 1950's | NAACP - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People |
Pres. Eisenhower sent troop here to protect African American students | Little Rock, Arkansas |
Established by Ella Baker | SNCC - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee |
Passed by Congress during Pres. Johnson's administration | Civil Rights Act of 1964 |
One type of protest used by civil rights activists | Sit-in |
Sought to enroll at "Ole Miss" | James Meredith |
During which event did Martin Luther King deliver his "I Have A Dream" speech? | March on Washington |
Assassinated in 1963 | Medgar Evers |
What was Pres. Kennedy response to the riots caused by the desegration of the University of Mississippi? | Americans were free to disagree with the law but not to disobey it |
Why were many Americans surprised when Pres Johnson supported Civil Rights? | He was a Southerner with an undistinguished record on racial matters |
Who ordered police dogs and fire hoses to be used against civil rights marchers in Birmingham? | T. Eugene "Bull" Connor |
Which civil rights act forbids discrimination in employment on the basis of race, color, sex, or national origin? | Civil Rights Act of 1964 |
Who spoke at the 1964 Democratic Convention | Fannie Lou Hamer |
Addressed discrimination in housing, passed shortly after Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated | Fair Housing Act |
While in prison, converted to the religious sect call the Nation of Islam | Malcolm X |
Who formed the Black Panther party in Oakland, California | Huey Newton & Bobby Seale |
Appointed by Pres. Johnson to investigate the causes of 1967 urban riots | Kerner Commission |
First to use the term "black power" | SNCC leader Stokely Carmichael |
The first confrontation during the Selma march on the Edmund Pettus Bridge | Bloody Sunday |
What occurred shortly after the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965? | African Americans in several cities assumed public office |
What happened in many cities after Martin Luther King's assassination? | Riots broke out |
What is an argument people used to prevent affirmative action? | It would violate the goal of creating a colorblind society. |
Policy that gives special consideration to women and minorities to make up for past discrimination | Affirmative action |
Malcolm X | Radical African American activist killed in 1965-preached separation of the races |
Effort to register voters in Mississippi | Freedom Summer |
Bus trip by CORE to challenge segregation in buses and bus terminals in the South | Freedom ride |
Ended tests to see if someone could read or write in order to vote | Voting Rights Act |
Worked to desegregate the University of Mississippi | James Meredith |
Tern first used by SNCC leader Stokley Carmichael | Black power |
Case that overturned Plessy v. Ferguson putting an end to segregation in public places | Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas |
african American lawyer who worked for the NAACP | Thurgood Marchall |
African American famous for breaking into major league baseball | Jackie Robinson |
Extended Fourteenth amendment protection to Mexican Americans | Hernandez v. Texas |
How long did the Montgomery bus boycott last? | More than one year |
What did the Kennedy administration agree to not do in exchange for the desegregation of interstate transportation. | Arresting Mississippi activists |
Most segregated city in America | Birmingham |
Signed Civil Rights Act of 1964 | Pres. Johnson |
SNCC claimed this happened to three civil rights activists who disappeared during Freedom Summer | Murdered |