Important Virginians
Important Events
Vocabulary
The Civil Rights Movement
Review
100
Who was the first African American woman to become a bank president and establish her own bank?
Maggie Walker
100
When did Barbara Johns lead a strike against segregated schools?
1951
100
Schools being kept "separate but equal" is an example of _______________.
segregation
100
Who was the Civil Rights movement trying to gain rights for?
African Americans
100
Who is known as the Father of our Constitution?
James Madison
200
Who was the administrator of Hampton University?
Robert Russa Moton
200
Who was the first African American governor of Virginia?
Douglas Wilder
200
When schools were ordered to stop segregation, it was called _________________.
desegregate
200
Was Rosa Parks the first person to refuse to give her bus seat up to a white person? If not, who was?
Irene Morgan
200
Where was the surrender of the Civil War?
Appomattox Court House
300
Who was the governor of Virginia who appointed more women and African Americans to state government positions than any other governor?
Linwood Holton
300
When the courts ruled that "separate but equal" was unconstitutional, what happened as a result?
The schools had to desegregate
300
A school that has children of all races is __________________.
Integrated
300
____________ _____________ was a way that some Virginians protested the orders from the courts to desegregate.
Massive Resistance
300
Label the two bodies of water shown on the map below:
7. Atlantic Ocean
8. Chesapeake Bay
400
Who was the first African American to win a US tennis championship, who was also an activist?
Arthur Ashe
400
During Massive Resistance, Virginia closed schools to avoid integration. This is because tried to ________ orders from the court.
stop
400
Improvements in technology and transportation changed farming by...
1.
2.
1. agriculture began to change
2. crop prices were low
400
What are three ways people showed their unhappiness over unfair treatment during the Civil Rights Movement?
protests, marches, and sit ins
400
Label the states according to their number:
1. Virginia
2. North Carolina
3. Tennessee
4. Kentucky
5. West VA
6. Maryland
500
Who was the lead attorney for the NAACP in Virginia and worked on the Brown v Board of Education case?
Samuel Wilburt Tucker
500
Put the following events in chronological order:
A. Separate but equal is unconstitutional
B. Massive Resistance fails
C. Schools were ordered to desegregate
D. VA established Massive Resistance
A
C
D
B
500
A ___________ ______ is when people protest for change by sitting in a place, typically a restaurant or a store.
sit in
500
Why did Massive Resistance fail?
It went against the US Constitution
500
Which language was spoken in each of the numbered regions below?
1. Iroquoian
2. Siouan
3. Iroquoian
4. Algonquian