1. Civil Rights
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2. Civil Rights
Freedom Riders
Jim Crow
Malcolm X
MLK Jr. 10 20 30 40 50

3. What did African Americans do in response to the arrest of Rosa Parks?
Question
What did African Americans do in response to the arrest of Rosa Parks?

4. Organized a bus boycott
Answer 1 – 10
Organized a bus boycott

5. The SNCC successfully desegregated many restaurants by using?
Question
The SNCC successfully desegregated many restaurants by using?

6. Answer 1 – 20
Sit-ins

7. The Southern Manifesto encouraged white Southerners to?
Question
The Southern Manifesto encouraged white Southerners to?

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

9. Question
In Little Rock, Arkansas, Governor Orval Faubus tried to prevent African American students from entering Central High School by?

10. Using the National Guard
Answer 1 – 40
Using the National Guard

11. The organization founded by student civil rights activists was the?
Question
The organization founded by student civil rights activists was the?

12. Answer 1 – 50
SNCC

13. Question
In Selma, Alabama, civil rights marchers were attacked by state troopers while
campaigning for?

14. Voting rights for African Americans
Answer 2 – 10
Voting rights for African Americans

15. Which Supreme Court ruling legalized segregation?
Question
Which Supreme Court ruling legalized segregation?

16. Answer 2 – 20
Plessy v. Ferguson

17. Question
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 14th amendment because it?

18. Caused psychological damage to African American students
Answer 2 – 30
Caused psychological damage to African American students

19. The ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896 had established?
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The ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896 had established?

20. The separate-but-equal doctrine
Answer 2 – 40
The separate-but-equal doctrine

21. Question
Dr. martin Luther King, Jr. believed the way to end segregation was through?

22. Non-violent passive resistance
Answer 2 – 50
Non-violent passive resistance

23. Question
When first established, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference set out to end segregation and?

24. Encourage African Americans to
Answer 3 – 10
Encourage African Americans to
register to vote

25. Question
The Freedom Riders were organized to draw attention to the South’s refusal to?

26. Desegregate bus travel
Answer 3 – 20
Desegregate bus travel

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

28. Answer 3 – 30
Malcolm X

29. Question
The Civil rights Act of 1964 came up short of civil rights goals because it did little to?

30. Secure voting rights for African Americans
Answer 3 – 40
Secure voting rights for African Americans

31. Question
In registering African Americans to vote, the Voting rights Act of 1965 authorized the government to?

32. Send federal examiners to register
Answer 3 – 50
Send federal examiners to register
qualified voters

33. After his pilgrimage to Mecca, Malcolm X concluded that?
Question
After his pilgrimage to Mecca, Malcolm X concluded that?

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

35. Dr. King selected Selma, Alabama, for a protest march because?
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Dr. King selected Selma, Alabama, for a protest march because?

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

37. In 1967, Thurgood Marshall became the first African American to?
Question
In 1967, Thurgood Marshall became the first African American to?

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

39. The bus boycott in Montgomery lasted for?
Question
The bus boycott in Montgomery lasted for?

40. Answer 4 – 40
About 1 year

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

42. Answer 4 – 50
Assassinated

43. Question
What group urged African Americans to arm themselves and confront white society in order to force whites to grant them equal rights?

44. Answer 5 – 10
Black Panthers

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

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

47. Question
Outlawed segregation in most public facilities and also discrimination?

48. Answer 5 – 30
Civil Rights Act of 1964

49. Question
Outlawed poll taxes?

50. Answer 5 – 40
24th Amendment

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

52. Answer 5 – 50
Voting Rights Act of 1965