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Civil Rights

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Question 1 - 10 • What did African Americans do in response to the arrest of Rosa Parks?

Answer 1 – 10 • Organized a bus boycott

Question 1 - 20 • The SNCC successfully desegregated many restaurants by using?

Answer 1 – 20 • Sit-ins

Question 1 - 30 • The Southern Manifesto encouraged white Southerners to?

Answer 1 – 30 • Defy the “Brown vs. Board of Education” ruling – school desegregation.

Question 1 - 40 • In Little Rock, Arkansas, Governor Orval Faubus tried to prevent African American students from entering Central High School by?

Answer 1 – 40 • Using the National Guard

Question 1 - 50 • The organization founded by student civil rights activists was the?

Answer 1 – 50 • SNCC

Question 2 - 10 • In Selma, Alabama, civil rights marchers were attacked by state troopers while campaigning for?

Answer 2 – 10 • Voting rights for African Americans

Question 2 - 20 • Which Supreme Court ruling legalized segregation?

Answer 2 – 20 • Plessy v. Ferguson

Question 2 - 30 • In the Supreme Court cases “Brown vs. Board of Education”, the court ruled that school segregation denied African Americans the “equal protection” promised by the 14 th amendment because it?

Answer 2 – 30 • Caused psychological damage to African American students

Question 2 - 40 • The ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896 had established?

Answer 2 – 40 • The separate-but-equal doctrine

Question 2 - 50 • Dr. martin Luther King, Jr. believed the way to end segregation was through?

Answer 2 – 50 • Non-violent passive resistance

Question 3 - 10 • When first established, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference set out to end segregation and?

Answer 3 – 10 • Encourage African Americans to register to vote

Question 3 - 20 • The Freedom Riders were organized to draw attention to the South’s refusal to?

Answer 3 – 20 • Desegregate bus travel

Question 3 - 30 • Who had become a symbol of the black power movement that was sweeping the nation by the early 1960 s, promoting violence and a rejection of white society?

Answer 3 – 30 • Malcolm X

Question 3 - 40 • The Civil rights Act of 1964 came up short of civil rights goals because it did little to?

Answer 3 – 40 • Secure voting rights for African Americans

Question 3 - 50 • In registering African Americans to vote, the Voting rights Act of 1965 authorized the government to?

Answer 3 – 50 • Send federal examiners to register qualified voters

Question 4 - 10 • After his pilgrimage to Mecca, Malcolm X concluded that?

Answer 4 – 10 • It was possible for whites and blacks to live together peacefully

Question 4 - 20 • Dr. King selected Selma, Alabama, for a protest march because?

Answer 4 – 20 • African Americans made up the majority of the population but very few were registered voters

Question 4 - 30 • In 1967, Thurgood Marshall became the first African American to?

Answer 4 – 30 • Serve on the U. S. Supreme Court

Question 4 - 40 • The bus boycott in Montgomery lasted for?

Answer 4 – 40 • About 1 year

Question 4 - 50 • In support of the strike by African American sanitation workers, Dr. King went to Memphis, Tennessee, where on April 4, 1968, he was?

Answer 4 – 50 • Assassinated

Question 5 - 10 • What group urged African Americans to arm themselves and confront white society in order to force whites to grant them equal rights?

Answer 5 – 10 • Black Panthers

Question 5 - 20 • In the 1978 affirmative action case, University of California Regents v. Bakke, the Supreme Court ruled that?

Answer 5 – 20 • Universities could not make race the only factor considered for acceptance

Question 5 - 30 • Outlawed segregation in most public facilities and also discrimination?

Answer 5 – 30 • Civil Rights Act of 1964

Question 5 - 40 • Outlawed poll taxes?

Answer 5 – 40 • 24 th Amendment

Question 5 - 50 • Outlawed all discriminatory devices in voting, including literacy tests, in places where less that ½ the adults had been allowed to vote?

Answer 5 – 50 • Voting Rights Act of 1965