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chapter 16
The Civil Rights Movement
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The movement begins | Widespread segregation and limited voting rights were prevalent in the south |
| The movement begins | Large numbers of African Americans migrating north increased political influence and voting power |
| The movement begins | NAACP used lawsuits to weaken Segregation; a major victory was scored with Brown v. Board of Education |
| The movement begins | Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving up her seat to a white man |
| The movement begins | African American churches organized the base; pastors rallied and organized protests |
| The movement begins | Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott |
| The movement begins | The Southern Christian Leadership Conference was established in 1957 |
| The movement begins | African American students were blocked from entering Little Rock High School |
| The movement begins | Eisenhower sent in federal troops and asked congress to pass the civil rights act of 1957 |
| Challenging Segregation | In January 1960, four students staged a sit ion at woolworth's lunch counter |
| Challenging Segregation | sit ins spread across the nation |
| Challenging Segregation | the Students Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was established |
| Challenging Segregation | Freedom Riders ended segregation on interstate bus travel |
| Challenging Segregation | In September 1962, federal marshals escorted James Meredith to the University of Mississippi |
| Challenging Segregation | MLK led marcvhes in Birmingham and then Washington DC to support the Civil Rights Act of 1964 |
| Challenging Segregation | President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law |
| Challenging Segregation | Mlk led a march in Selma to pressure congress to pass the voting rights act of 1965 |
| Challenging Segregation | The movement achieved its two major goals to prevent discrimination and protect voting rights |
| New Civil Rights Issues | Riots broke out throughout the country between 1965 and 1968 |
| New Civil Rights Issues | Black power groups wanted to control the social, political, and economic direction of their struggle |
| New Civil Rights Issues | Malcolm X became a symbol of the Black Panther movement |
| New Civil Rights Issues | April 4, 1968 Dr. martin Luther king Jr. was assassinated; the movement lost unity and purposeq |
| New Civil Rights Issues | The Civil Rights Act of 1968 was passed |
| New Civil Rights Issues | The Black Panthers organized in 1966 and advocated revolutiuon |
| How did the 1896 Supreme Court Case Plessy v Ferguson reaffirm de facto segregation? | Separate but equal made it legal to have separate facilities and areas without laws had de facto segregation |
| Explain how members of congress used the techniques of filibuster and the cloture with Civil Rights legislation. | Filibuster was used to prevent a vote and cloture made segregation illegal in most places |
| How effective was the Black Power movement in gaining equal rights for african americans? | black power movement was very effective in gaining equal rights for blacks |
| facility | something built, installed, or established for a particular purpose |
| register | to file personal information in order to become eligible for a specific event |
| enforcement | the act of urging or carrying out by force |
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