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Civil Rights HGHS
Civil Rights Ch21
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Ella Baker helped advised this student led movement | SNCC |
| This man led the fight against inntegration in Birmingham | Eugene "Bull" Connor |
| This conflict in the early 1940s led to an increase in Black Activism in the U.S.A. | WW II |
| This man was a pro-segregationist governor of Arkansas in the 1950's | Orval Faubus |
| This person, part of the Little Rock Nine found refuge at a bus stop | Elizabeth Eckford |
| What was the plan to recruit white volunteers to help register African American voters called | Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party |
| This person was killed for flirting, (Whistling at) with a white woman in Mississippi | Emmett Till |
| The goal of this was to study the causes of urban violence in american cities in the 1960's | Kerner Commission |
| The tactics of the Civil Rights Movement have been ineffective against this type of racism | De Facto Segregation |
| "Whites only " public facilities were eliminated by this | Civil Rights Act of 1964 |
| It's goal was to persuade congress to pass a comprehensive civil rights act | March on Washington in 1963 |
| King and other black ministers formed what organization | SCLC |
| Project C refers to the tactics used by the SCLC in what southern city | Birmingham |
| What was the alternative to the regular Democratic Party in Mississippi called in 1964 | Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party |
| Name one of the founders of the Black Panther Party | Huey Newton and Bobby Seale |
| In 1954, What did Brown v. Board of Education accomplish | Ended the doctrine of "Separate but Equal" being acceptable in public schools |
| By the mid -1960's, the change in urban black attitude was evident in this term | Black Militancy |
| In Selma in 1965, King and the SCLC planned a march in order to attract attention for this key part of the movement's struggle | Voting Rights |
| What outlawed racial discrimination in employment | Civil Rights Act of 1964 |
| The main reason Civil Rights workers recruited WHITE volunteers for the Miss. Freedom Summer Project was to | gain national awareness of racial violence |
| Non-violent leader of India's fight for independence | Mohandas Gandhi |
| 1st African American woman in the House of Representatives | Shirley Chisholm |
| NAACP leader murdered in Mississippi in 1963 | Medgar Evers |
| Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights leader | Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth |
| African American Supreme Court Justice who gained fame trying several cases | Thurgood Marshall |
| Advocate of black superiority who was assassinated in New York in 1965 | Malcolm X |
| Head of the Nation of Islam | Elijah Muhammad |
| Iconic African American woman arrested for defying segregation laws in Montgomery, Alabama | Rosa Parks |
| Leader of the Freedom Summer Project in Mississippi | Robert Moses |
| Advocate of Gandhian non violence assassinated in Memphis, TN | Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. |
| Black Civil Rights leader that advocated removing whites form the SNCC | Stokely Carmichael |
| After seeing violence in other cities,this group was escorted safely into Jackson, Miss. by Federal officials | Freedom Riders |
| These local laws established de jure segregation throughout the South | Jim Crow Laws |
| This President sent the Army to Little Rock in 1957 | Eisenhower |
| This established doctrine of legal segregation | Plessy v. Fergusson |
| What gave African Americans the RIGHT to vote | 15th Amendment |
| This controversial term became the political slogan of the SNCC in the Mid- 1960's | Black Power |
| What set timetables for hiring minorities | Affirmative Action Programs |
| What court decision said school districts must integrate "with all deliberate speed" | Brown II |
| What African American Civil Rights leader taught King to demonstrate on a massive scale when possible | A. Philip Randolph |
| Who was the first to use the tactic of a " Sit in" | CORE |
| What urban Black leader stressed militant tactics for most of his public life | Malcolm X |
| In order to be more spontaneous, less patient, young Blacks formed this new civil rights organization | SNCC |
| Freedom Riders attempted to integrate what in the South | Bus Terminals |
| Who was the man that shot Medgar Evers | Byron de la Beckwith |
| Who was the man who shot Martin Luther King Jr. | James Earl Ray |
| Who was alledgedly responsible for the Murder of Malcom X | Elijah Muhammad or the Black Muslims |
| Who was the racist Governor of Alabama that resisted the integration of the University of Alabama | George Wallace |
| What trip altered Malcolm X's view toward racial integration | Mecca |
| America was outraged when 2 White and 1 Black volunteer were found murdered here | Neshoba County Mississippi |
| Who was alledgedly responsible for Malcolm X's father's death | KKK-White Supremacists |
| After splitting from the Nation of Islam Malcolm X formed this organization | Organization of African American Unity-OAAU |
| What is considered Malcolm X's lasting contribution to the Civil Rights Movement | Black Consciousness and Black Pride |
| What group of African Americans was Malcolm X most connected with | Urban African Americans |
| Who was Martin Luther King Jr's inspiration for civil disobedience | H. D. Thoreau |
| What type of segregation was Martin Luther King Jr. most instrumental in ending | De Jure Segregation |