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