Civil Rights Review

Civil Rights Review

What Supreme court case declared “separate is inherently

unequal”?

Brown v. Board of Ed.

The murder of this individual united the civil rights movement

in 1955.

Emmett Till

Martin Luther King Jr. was shot in this city in this year.

Memphis, TN; 1968

MLK Jr. wrote his famous letter from a jail defending his non-

violent strategies in what state?

Alabama

What is de facto segregation?

Segregation by custom, habit

Put the events in the correct order.

Letter from a Birmingham Jail, Montgomery Bus Boycott, March on

Washington, March from fear

The first African American to attend the University of

Mississippi

James Meredith

Name two campaigns that led to the passage of the Voting

Rights Act of 1965

Freedom Summer, Selma Campaign, MFDP’s stand at the Democratic

National Convention

What individual was chosen to represent the Mississippi

Freedom Democratic Party at the 1964 Democratic National

Convention?

Fannie Lou Hamer

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 did what?

Eliminated the literacy test

The founder of the Nation of Islam…

Elijah Muhammad

The Watts Riots took place in this city…

Los Angeles

This leader of SNCC eventually became a Black Panther.

Stokely Carmichael

The violence that resulted from MLK Jr.’s assassination may have influenced the violence that led to the assassination of this political

leader in the same year.

Robert Kennedy

The assassin of MLK Jr. was named…

James Earl Ray

The Civil Rights Act of 1968 did what?

Banned discrimination in housing

The Kerner Commission blamed African American rioting on…

White racism

What is the name for someone who rode buses in the south to try and make sure southerners

subscribed to the laws on integration

Freedom riders

MLK Jr. debuted on the national stage with his help with this

event.

Montgomery Bus Boycott

“SNCC” stands for

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

MLK JR. headed an organization called

__________, which stood for ________________

SCLC, Southern Christian Leadership Conference

What man served as the Browns’ lawyer?

Thurgood Marshall

Put the following events in chronological order

Freedom Riders, Freedom Summer, Civil Rights Act of 1957

MLK Jr’s “I have a dream” speech was given in what city?

Washington D.C.

This individual coined the slogan “Black Power.”

Stokely Carmichael

The main goal of this political group was to fight police

brutality in the ghetto.

Black Panthers

This policy involves making special efforts to hire or enroll

groups that have suffered discrimination in the past.

Affirmative Action

This man led the voter project in Mississippi during the summer

of 1964.

Robert Moses

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 did what?

Prohibited discrimination because of race, religion, national origin and

gender.

The name of the hostile police chief in Birmingham was?

Bull Connor

Emmett Till was murdered in _________ (state) by the

husband and brother-in-law of ________.

Mississippi, Carolyn Bryant

The governor of Arkansas during the Little Rock School

Segregation crisis was named…

Governor Faubus

This girl was the most controversial of the “Little Rock

Nine.”

Minnie Jean Brown

Put the events in chronological order.

Little Rock, Emmett Till murder, Birmingham

Malcolm X’s shift from a believer in the use of violence to the use of vote after his split from the Black Muslims can be described in this

phrase.

“Ballots or bullets”