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Mr K History 10
civil rights test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are the organizations from the 1960s | NAACP, CORE, SCLC, SNCC |
| What are 3 ways African Americans traveled from place to place during the bus boycott | walked, road bikes, and carpooled |
| Gave all citizens the right to enter libraries, parks, washrooms, restaurants, and theaters | civil rights act of 1964 |
| Who was Martin Luther King Jr supporting just prior to his assassination | striking garbage workers |
| What is the policy that seeks to correct the effects of past discrimination by favoring the groups who were previously disadvantaged | affirmative action |
| The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr triggered what events across the country | rioting |
| This allowed the attorney general to appoint federal examiners to register voters where local officials prevented African Americans | voting rights act of 1965 |
| What technique was used by CORE, SNCC and other to demand services at segregated establishments | sit-ins |
| Which civil right organization is one of the oldest in the US | NAACP |
| The Supreme Court case of Brown vs Board of Education found that educating students in segregated facilities was unconstitutional according to the | 14th Amendment |
| Founders of the Black Panthers | Huey Newton and Bobby Seal |
| Leader of the non-violent civil rights movement of the 1960s | Martin Luther King Jr |
| For much of his life, believed in violent tactics to obtain rights | Malcolm X |
| Assassin who shot Martin Luther King JR | James Earl Ray |
| SNCC leader influenced by Malcolm X | Stokley Carmichael |
| Brown's lawyer in Brown vs Board of Education | Thurgood Marshall |
| This person's actions sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott | Rosa Parks |
| First African American to play Major League Baseball | Jackie Robinson |
| Civil Rights activist whom investigated the murder of Emmett Till | Medgar Evers |
| Assassinated Medgar Evers | Byron De La Beckwith |
| BOy whose 1955 murder helped spark the Civil RIghts Movement | Emmett Till |
| First African American to attend an all-white University of Mississippi | James Meredith |
| A call on African Americans, by Stokely Carmichael, for African Americans to unite and stand up for themselves | Black Power |
| This organization was also known as the Black Muslims | Nation of Islam |
| The Civil Rights Act that banned discrimination in housing | CIvil RIghts Act of 1968 |
| Political party that advocated self confidence for African American communities, dressed in black leather jackets, black berets and sunglasses | Black Panthers |
| Bus trip across the south to test a supreme Court ruling banning segregated seating on interstate bus routes and segregated bus terminals | Freedom Ride |
| Huge demonstration at this nation's capital where Martin Luther King Jr gave his "I have a dream speech" and was meant to speed up the passage of a civil rights bill | March on Washington |
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