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Civil Rights
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civics
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Answer 25 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A voters' registration drive in Mississippi turned violent when three college students (from the north) were killed. SHS students recently brought one of the killers (Killen) to justice.
March on Washington
Betty Freidan
Freedom Summer
Little Rock Nine
2. Riders integrated buses and rode through the South to challenge segregation; violence erupted
March on Washington
Freedom Rides
1965 Voting Rights Act
Stokely Carmichael
3. 'Bloody Sunday'-Three marches for voting rights - police beat marchers and used tear gas against them; violence was shown on TV
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Black Panthers
Selma to Montgomery Marches
Emmett Till
4. Ended literacy tests and poll taxes; allowed officers to register voters
Sit-In Movement
1965 Voting Rights Act
Margaret Sanger
Emmett Till
5. Father of non-violent protest; King admired him and adopted his approach
Birmingham:Sixteenth Street Baptist Church
Mahatma Gandhi
Malcolm X
Birmingham: Demonstrations
6. Created 'the pill' which offered freedom of choice to women
Sit-In Movement
Margaret Sanger
Little Rock Nine
Malcolm X
7. Wrote 'the Feminine Mystique' amd created NOW (National Organization of Women) worked for equal pay and opportunities for women in society
1964 Civil Rights Act
Betty Freidan
Malcolm X
March on Washington
8. Nonviolent leader of the Civil Rights Movement; delivered 'I have a Dream' speech; Nobel Peace Prize winner
1965 Voting Rights Act
Malcolm X
Sit-In Movement
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
9. Leader of SNCC- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. He coined the term 'Black Power'
Malcolm X
Stokely Carmichael
Selma to Montgomery Marches
NAACP
10. Students chosen to integrate Central High School in Little Rock - 1957.
Little Rock Nine
Freedom Summer
Birmingham:Sixteenth Street Baptist Church
affirmative action
11. Established the 'separate but equal' policy in the US
Malcolm X
Stokely Carmichael
Birmingham:Sixteenth Street Baptist Church
Plessy v Ferguson
12. In 1955 Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a city bus. King led a boycott of city buses. After 11 months the Supreme Court ruled that segregation of public transportation was illegal.
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Birmingham: Demonstrations
1965 Voting Rights Act
Emmett Till
13. Worked for civil rights through confrontation and violence
Birmingham:Sixteenth Street Baptist Church
1965 Voting Rights Act
Stokely Carmichael
Black Panthers
14. Black boy from Chicago Who was murdered when visiting in the South; emotional spark to the movement
Birmingham: Demonstrations
Plessy v Ferguson
Birmingham:Children's Marches
Emmett Till
15. Marchers demanded passage of a civil rights bill - job opportunities and integration; 'I have a dream' speech was given
Mahatma Gandhi
March on Washington
Black Panthers
Plessy v Ferguson
16. A policy to create opportunities for those that have been discriminated againt in the past
affirmative action
Birmingham:Children's Marches
Freedom Rides
Sit-In Movement
17. NAACP lawyer during Brown v Board case; 1st black Supreme Court justice
Thurgood Marshall
Birmingham: Demonstrations
Selma to Montgomery Marches
Stokely Carmichael
18. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; worked for civil rights throughthe legal system
Selma to Montgomery Marches
March on Washington
NAACP
Malcolm X
19. President Johnson's policies of fighting poverty and racial injustice.
March on Washington
Great Society
affirmative action
1965 Voting Rights Act
20. Outlawed segregation in public places; banned discrimination in employment
1964 Civil Rights Act
Selma to Montgomery Marches
Thurgood Marshall
March on Washington
21. Black Muslim leader who believed white racism should be fought in a violtnet manner if necessary
Malcolm X
Emmett Till
Margaret Sanger
Freedom Summer
22. A meeting ground and headquarters for the movement was bombed killing four girls
Birmingham:Sixteenth Street Baptist Church
Plessy v Ferguson
Malcolm X
Stokely Carmichael
23. King fought segregation and brought attention to civil rights by going against 'Bull' Conner - an extreme racist.
Thurgood Marshall
Stokely Carmichael
Birmingham: Demonstrations
affirmative action
24. Fire hoses and dogs were used against children and teens who were peacefully protesting
25. Sit-ins started in Greensboro - North Carolina to peacefully protest segregation in restaurants - etc.
affirmative action
Plessy v Ferguson
Great Society
Sit-In Movement