US Government and Civil Rights
Primary Sources
Key Figures/Activists
Response to Civil Rights
Key Terms
100
Which Supreme Court case originally allowed for separate but equal facilities for black and white Americans?
Plessy v. Ferguson
100
Who was arrested for violating the above city code of Montgomery, Alabama?
Rosa Parks
100
Which leader do the following points best describe?
- was a baptist minister
- who believed strongly in nonviolent resistance
-leader of the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
100
Which U.S. president sent in the National Guard to Little Rock, Arkansas when people rioted in response to school desegregation?
President Eisenhower
100
What term can be defined as a policy of separating people by their race/color into distinct groups?
Segregation
200
Which Branch of the U.S. Government sent in the National Guard to integrate schools to ensure that African Americans had access to public Education?
Executive Branch
200
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
Who is MOST LIKELY to have made the above statement?
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
200
Which Civil Rights leader believed in more aggressive demonstrations for Civil Rights?
Malcolm X
200
This was the transfer of a large number of Southern white students from public schools to private schools due to a negative view of school integration.
White Flight
200
This term refers to an Era of U.S. History, that began after Reconstruction, where state and local laws enforced racial segregation in the South, and was opposed by the leaders of the Civil Rights movement.
Jim Crow
300
What significant court case overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and legally required schools to desegregate?
Brown v. Board of Education (of Topeka, Kansas)
300
This photography was taken in August of 1963. Based on your knowledge from the unit, what is going on in this photograph?
(You can either name the speech that was given, or the event that it occurred at)
Dr. King is giving his "I Have a Dream" speech at the March on Washington
300
One accomplishment of the ___ was bringing about a federal ban on segregation in all interstate travel facilities
Freedom Riders
300
Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, and red, and he placed them on separate continents. And but for the interference with his arrangement there would be no cause for such marriages. The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix.”
-- Virginia Judge Leon Bazile, 1965
Judge Leon Bazile was MOST LIKELY the judge in what case that was eventually overturned by the Supreme Court
Loving v. Virginia
300
What term can be defined as having a prejudice against people and denying them their basic human and economic rights based their race, religion, gender or age?
Discrimination
400
Which branch of government passed a series of civil rights and voting rights acts to ensure that African Americas could exercise their right to vote?
Legislative Branch
400
This government poster is directly related to what piece of legislation(law) passed during the Civil Rights Era?
Civil Rights Act of 1964
400
The powers that be make themselves richer by exploiting the poor. Our nation continues to allow children to go hungry and will not even house its own people.
…My friends, I would like to tell you about the farmworkers. We are struggling for our rights. We are struggling for our children’s rights. We struggle for our very lives.
Inhumanity was shown at Selma and in Birmingham. Dr. King marched there for the rights of black Americans. This inhumanity was shown in so many of Dr. King’s battlegrounds. The same inhumanity is shown every day in the fields where grapes are grown in California.”
The person MOST LIKELY to have made the above statement was---
Cesar Chavez
400
_____?_____
- Civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated South
- Left Washington, D.C. for New Orleans on May 4, 1961
- Firebombed and beaten by a white supremacist mob in Anniston Alabama
The bullet points above best describes the - ?
Freedom Riders
500
What law passed by the U.S. Government made discrimination based on race, religion, or ethnicity illegal?
Civil Rights Act of 1964
500
Based on this document, who wanted to remind the U.S. Government of the gov'ts own historical and current actions towards this group of people.
Native Americans/Indigenous peoples
500
Which leader/activist do the following points describe?
-Served as U.S. Attorney General
-Was a U.S. senator from New York State
-Campaigned as a candidate for President of the United States
-Supported desegregation
Robert F. Kennedy
600
What law passed by the U.S. Government outlawed literacy tests as a requirement for voting?
Voting Rights Act of 1965
600
3 PART Question, must get at least two to get points for the question.
-During what sporting event was the photograph above taken?
-What form of protest are athletes above participating in?
-What happened to the two athletes protesting in the photograph?
-Summer Olympics (1968)
-Nonviolent protest
-Expelled from the Olympic Games