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