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