Black Lives Matter
The Black Lives Matter Movement is connected to which amendment in the Constitution?
a. 1st amendment
b. 5th amendment
c. 13th amendment
d. 14th amendment
D. 14th amendment, this was against police brutality and systemic inequality relies directly on the amendment's Equal Protection Clause. Also, this was centered on state violence and civil rights.
This 1964 law banned segregation in public places and discrimination based on race.
Martin Luther King Jr. is famous for delivering this speech during the March on Washington in 1963.
What is the "I Have a Dream" speech?
The Black Panther Party was founded in this state in 1966.
a. Illinois
b. Arkansas
c. Connecticut
d. California
B. California
What is the full name of the abbreviation of SNCC?
The Black Lives Matter movement was founded in 2013 in direct response to the acquittal of this neighborhood watch coordinator in the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin.
a. Malcolm X
b. George Floyd
c. George Zimmerman
d. Martin Luther King Jr.
c. George Zimmerman
This Supreme Court case overturned "separate but equal" in public schools.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
MLK's personal mindset was most influenced by which leader known for nonviolent resistance?
a. Fidel Castro
b. Mahatma Gandhi
c. Joseph Stalin
d. Mao Zedong
Who is Mahatma Gandhi?
The Black Panthers believed in all of the following EXCEPT:
a. Community self defense
b. Armed protection
c. Free breakfast programs
d. Supporting segregation laws.
SNCC helped organize these protests where African Americans sat at segregated lunch counters.
What are sit-ins?
Many BLM activists argue voter suppression still exists today. Which Civil Rights era law tried to stop discrimination in voting.
a. Dawes Act
b. Voting Rights Act of 1965
c. Grandfather Clause
d. Kansas-Nebraska Act
B. Voting Rights Act of 1965
Which President signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
a. John F. Kennedy
b. Richard Nixon
c. Lyndon B. Johnson
d. Dwight Eisenhower
C. Who is Lyndon B Johnson?
This boycott, started after Rosa Parks' arrest, helped make MLK natonally famous.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
This FBI program targeted groups like the Black Panthers because the government viewed them as dangerous radicals.
a. Sabotaging Survival Programs
b. Infiltration and Provocation
c. COINTELPRO
d. Counterintelligence
c. What is COINTELPRO?
SNCC played a major role in this 1961 protest challenging segregation on interstate buses.
a. Freedom Rides
b. Bonus Army
c. Seneca Falls Convention
d. Shayś Rebellion
A. What are the Freedom Rides?
BLM protests against police brutality to this earlier Civil Rights Movement event where police violence against peaceful protesters shocked Americans on TV in 1965.
Hint: Selma March
What is Bloody Sunday? (Bloody Sunday on March 7, 1965 where police brutality was televised)
The Civil Right Movement inspired later movements for women's rights, Latino rights and LGBTQ+ rights. This idea is known as expanding what type of rights?
Hint: =
What are Equal/Civil Rights?
MLK argued America should live up to the promises written in this founding Document made in 1776.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The Black Panthers reflected the rise of this 1960s movement focused on racial pride and self-determination.
What is Black Power?
SNCC organized this 1964 campaign to register African American voters in Mississippi.
a. The Albany Movement
b. Mississippi Voter Registration
c. Freedom Summer
d. The Sit-In Movement
C. What is Freedom Summer?
BLM's focus on systemic racism connects to this APUSH concept describing discrimination built into institutions and society.
Hint: Its a system
What is systemic racism? Systemic racism refers to the complex ways in which racial discrimination is embedded within the policies, practices, and institutions of society, leading to unequal outcomes for different racial groups.
This method is heavily used during the Civil Right Movement and later protest in 2020, involves refusing violence to create change.
What are nonviolent protests?
MLK's assassination in 1968 led to riots and increased support for this more militant Civil Right ideology.
What is Black Power?
Unlike MLKś focus on nonviolence, the Black Panthers argued African Americans had the right to do this if threatened by police violence.
Hint: Shield
What is self defense?
This SNCC leader became chairman in 1966 and promoted the slogan "Black Power" instead of integration-focused activism.
a. Ella Baker
b. Stokely Carmichael
c. John Lewis
d. Marion Barry
B. Who is Stokely Carmichael?