Organizations
What does CORE stand for?
Congress of Racial Equality
What two Civil Rights laws were passed by President Truman?
Desegregating the army.
Desegregating the federal workforce.
What was Morgan vs. Virginia (1946) ruling?
All travel between states should be desegregated.
What were Freedom Rides?
Freedom Rides were a test of interstate bus travel to test whether it was truly desegregated.
What was MLK’s letter from jail about?
“Justice too long delayed is justice denied.”
What does the SCLC stand for?
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
What happened at Little Rock, Arkansas? How did the government respond?
9 Black students registered to attend high school were blocked by angry White townspeople.
President Eisenhower sent in troops to protect the 9 students.
What was the NAACP’s landmark case against segregation? What was the ruling of this case?
Brown vs. The Board of Education (1954)
Separate school facilities are in their nature unequal.
What Civil Rights action began in December 1955? What started this action?
The Montgomery Bus Boycott began in 1955 and was started after Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving up her seat for a white man.
Who was Thurgood Marshall?
The first, Black Supreme Court Judge appointed in 1967.
Who founded the SCLC?
Martin Luther King Jr.
What was the 24th amendment?
It abolished poll tax in national elections.
Who were the Black Panthers? What happened to them?
A group that believed in armed defense against police and white brutality. hey were continuously attacked by the police and FBI until the group fell apart.
What are sit-ins? How do they work?
Members force integration by sitting at segregated counters until they are desegregated or arrested.
What were the Long, Hot Summers?
A series of riots across the US from 1964-1968.
What does SNCC stand for?
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Name three things the Civil Rights Act of 1964 accomplished.
Forbid segregation in public facilities.
Created equal employment opportunities.
The government could deny money to states that did not desegregate.
Which forms of voter discrimination were outlawed by the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
Voter registration was now federal and not local and literacy tests were now illegal.
What were the goals of the SNCC’s Mississippi Freedom Summer Project? Why?
To help African American communities register for the vote, because less than 5% of Black Mississippians were registered to vote.
What two factors pushed Black Americans towards more radical groups? Which two Civil Rights leaders were assassinated?
Lack of progress and the assassination of multiple Civil Rights leaders. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X
What does the NAACP stand for?
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
What was Affirmative Action? What kind of law was it?
An executive order stating a minimum of different ethnicities to be enrolled in universities or hired in professions.
Who became the leader of the SNCC after John Lewis? How did he change the SNCC?
Stokely Carmichael transformed SNCC into an all black organization.
What was the SCLC Campaign of 1965?
The protest march from Montgomery to Selma.
Why did the Civil Rights movement end?
More attention was being given to the Vietnam War and White America believed equality had been reached with the Civil Rights Act of 1964.