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In June 1964, one Black and two White student activists were murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi. This event is only one example of the violence that
A: Participants in the Freedom Summer faced
B: Non-violent protesters in Birmingham felt
C: Those who went on Freedom Rides endured
D: Sit-in protesters in the South experienced
A: Participants in the Freedom Summer faced
This doctrine justified segregation by claiming facilities could be "separate but equal"
What is separate but equal?
Why did World War II help spark the civil rights movement?
A: Soldiers demanded rights after fighting for freedom abroad
B: African Americans gained economic power only
C: Segregation ended immediately after the war
D: The government forced integration
A: Soldiers demanded rights after fighting for freedom abroad
Which group sent observers into the streets armed with law books and shotguns to protect Black people from police mistreatment in the 1960s?
Who were the Black Panthers?
What was a key weakness of the "separate but equal" doctrine?
A: it applied only to transportation
B: Facilities for African Americans were rarely equal
C: It was never enforced
D: It only applied in the North
B: Facilities for African Americans were rarely equal
The Civil Rights Act of 1968 banned discrimination in which of the following areas?
A: Public Facilities
B: University Admissions
C: Employment
D: Housing
D: Housing
What was a result of Roe v. Wade as decided by the Supreme Court?
A: gave married couples the right to privacy in marital relations
B: approved the development of the birth control pill
C: ruled that state regulation of abortion was illegal
D: set a precedent that women and men should be paid equally
C: ruled that state regulation of abortion was illegal
This case, decided before Brown, upheld "separate but equal" and legalized segregation
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This statement is from the Kerner Commission Report, issued in 1968:
“Social and economic conditions . . . constituted a clear pattern of severe disadvantages for Negroes compared with whites.”
What led to the formation of the Kerner Commission?
What is the spread of race riots from Watts to other urban neighborhoods?
This event in 1969 is often considered the start of the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement
A: Montgomery Bus Boycotts
B: Selma March
C: Stonewall Riots
D: March on Washington
C: Stonewall Riots
This president signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
What was one of the largest political gatherings ever held in the United States in 1963?
What was the March on Washington?
This term refers to pride in one's cultural identity
What is Ethnic Pride?
This organization, led by Thurgood Marshall, fought segregation through the courts
What is the NAACP?
This Montgomery leader became a national figure after organizing a bus boycott in 1955
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
How did Eisenhower respond to the refusal to desegregate a school in Little Rock, Arkansas?
A: He had Congress implement laws requiring the desegregation
B: He took the governor and school board to the Supreme Court
C: He visited Little Rock and walked the students into the school
D: He sent in federal troops to enforce the school's integration
D: He sent in federal troops to enforce the school's integration
On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, a 43-year-old African American woman, refused to give up her seat on a bus to a White passenger. What organization decided to use her refusal to give up her seat as a test case against segregation?
What is the NAACP?
This term describes laws that enforced racial segregation in the South
What are Jim Crow Laws?
Which law prohibited discrimination on the basis of sex in any school program receiving federal funds?
What is Title IX?
These activists rode interstate buses into the South to challenge segregation
Who were the Freedom Riders?
This 1954 Supreme Court case declared school segregation unconstitutional
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
Who helped found the United Farm Workers, organized a boycott of grapes, and used hunger strikes to draw attention to the plight of migrant workers?
A. Dolores Huerta
B. Maggie Kuhn
C. Cesar Chavez
D. Rodolfo Gonzales
C. Cesar Chavez
This SNCC leader popularized the phrase "Black Power" during a 1966 march
Who is Stokely Carmichael?
This presidential order ended segregation in the U.S. armed forces in 1948
What is Executive Order 9981?
Which city did the Stonewall Riots take place in?
What is New York City?
This march in Alabama highlighted the struggle for voting rights
What was the Selma to Montgomery March?
This event shocked the nation when police used fire hoses and dogs on protesters
A: Montgomery Bus Boycott
B: Freedom Summer
C: Birmingham Campaign
D: Selma March
C: Birmingham Campaign
Read the descriptions below. Who does this list describe?
• Joined the Nation of Islam in 1952 to promote Black nationalism
• Rejected nonviolence as a strategy to bring about change
• Converted to orthodox Islam in 1964 and reached out to people of all races
Who is Malcolm X?
This 1965 law outlawed literacy tests and protected voting rights
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
This law, passed in 1973, prohibited discrimination against people with disabilities in programs receiving federal funding.
A. Civil Rights Act
B. Americans with Disabilities Act
C. Rehabilitation Act of 1973
D. Voting Rights Act
C: Rehabilitation Act of 1973
These African American pilots served with distinction during World War II and helped challenge segregation in the military
Who were the Tuskegee Airmen?
This Supreme Court case upheld limited use of affirmative action in college admissions
What is Regents of the University of California v. Bakke?
What is NOW (National Organization for Women)?
A criticism of affirmative action claiming it unfairly disadvantages white applicants
What is reverse discrimination?
What is de facto segregation?
What is segregation based on tradition and social patterns?
This organization promoted Black nationalism and community programs like free breakfasts
What is the Black Panther Party?
What lawsuit was brought before the Supreme Court to challenge the constitutionality of school segregation laws?
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
Why did the SCLC decided to focus its attention on Birmingham in 1963?
A: Birmingham was a hotbed of civil rights activity during the Civil War
B: Martin Luther King Jr called it the most segregated city in the country
C: Birmingham was the site of the Montgomery Bus Boycott
D: Birmingham had the highest percentage of African Americans of any city in the country
B: Martin Luther King Jr called it the most segregated city in the country
The belief that African American communities should control their own communities and beliefs
What is self-discrimination?
Which of the following was a goal of the Chicano Movement?
A. End of segregation in schools
B. Improved working conditions and rights for Mexican Americans
C. Expansion of voting rights for women
D. Ending the Vietnam War
B: Improved working conditions and rights for Mexican Americans
This policy aimed to increase opportunities for minorities in jobs and education
What is affirmative action?
Which of these tactics did Martin Luther King Jr and the SCLC use in their struggle to win equal rights?
What is non-violent resistance?
This student-led organization played a major role in sit-ins and voter registration drives
What is the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee?
This Native American group occupied Alcatraz island in 1969
A: NAACP
B: AIM (American Indian Movement)
C: SCLC
D: CORE
B: AIM (American Indian Movement)
A method used by farmworkers to pressure companies by refusing to buy their products
What is a boycott?