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