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African American Civil Rights Activism: Milestones and Challenges

Explore the key events and figures in the African American civil rights movement, from the Montgomery Bus Boycott to the passage of landmark legislation. Learn about the strategies used and the obstacles faced by activists in their fight for equality.

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African American Civil Rights Activism: Milestones and Challenges

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  1. Civil Rights

  2. Question 1 - 10 • What did African Americans do in response to the arrest of Rosa Parks?

  3. Answer 1 – 10 • Organized a bus boycott

  4. Question 1 - 20 • The SNCC successfully desegregated many restaurants by using?

  5. Answer 1 – 20 • Sit-ins

  6. Question 1 - 30 • The Southern Manifesto encouraged white Southerners to?

  7. Answer 1 – 30 • Defy the “Brown vs. Board of Education” ruling – school desegregation.

  8. Question 1 - 40 • In Little Rock, Arkansas, Governor Orval Faubus tried to prevent African American students from entering Central High School by?

  9. Answer 1 – 40 • Using the National Guard

  10. Question 1 - 50 • The organization founded by student civil rights activists was the?

  11. Answer 1 – 50 • SNCC

  12. Question 2 - 10 • In Selma, Alabama, civil rights marchers were attacked by state troopers while campaigning for?

  13. Answer 2 – 10 • Voting rights for African Americans

  14. Question 2 - 20 • Which Supreme Court ruling legalized segregation?

  15. Answer 2 – 20 • Plessy v. Ferguson

  16. Question 2 - 30 • In the Supreme Court cases “Brown vs. Board of Education”, the court ruled that school segregation denied African Americans the “equal protection” promised by the 14th amendment because it?

  17. Answer 2 – 30 • Caused psychological damage to African American students

  18. Question 2 - 40 • The ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896 had established?

  19. Answer 2 – 40 • The separate-but-equal doctrine

  20. Question 2 - 50 • Dr. martin Luther King, Jr. believed the way to end segregation was through?

  21. Answer 2 – 50 • Non-violent passive resistance

  22. Question 3 - 10 • When first established, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference set out to end segregation and?

  23. Answer 3 – 10 • Encourage African Americans to register to vote

  24. Question 3 - 20 • The Freedom Riders were organized to draw attention to the South’s refusal to?

  25. Answer 3 – 20 • Desegregate bus travel

  26. Question 3 - 30 • Who had become a symbol of the black power movement that was sweeping the nation by the early 1960s, promoting violence and a rejection of white society?

  27. Answer 3 – 30 • Malcolm X

  28. Question 3 - 40 • The Civil rights Act of 1964 came up short of civil rights goals because it did little to?

  29. Answer 3 – 40 • Secure voting rights for African Americans

  30. Question 3 - 50 • In registering African Americans to vote, the Voting rights Act of 1965 authorized the government to?

  31. Answer 3 – 50 • Send federal examiners to register qualified voters

  32. Question 4 - 10 • After his pilgrimage to Mecca, Malcolm X concluded that?

  33. Answer 4 – 10 • It was possible for whites and blacks to live together peacefully

  34. Question 4 - 20 • Dr. King selected Selma, Alabama, for a protest march because?

  35. Answer 4 – 20 • African Americans made up the majority of the population but very few were registered voters

  36. Question 4 - 30 • In 1967, Thurgood Marshall became the first African American to?

  37. Answer 4 – 30 • Serve on the U.S. Supreme Court

  38. Question 4 - 40 • The bus boycott in Montgomery lasted for?

  39. Answer 4 – 40 • About 1 year

  40. Question 4 - 50 • In support of the strike by African American sanitation workers, Dr. King went to Memphis, Tennessee, where on April 4, 1968, he was?

  41. Answer 4 – 50 • Assassinated

  42. Question 5 - 10 • What group urged African Americans to arm themselves and confront white society in order to force whites to grant them equal rights?

  43. Answer 5 – 10 • Black Panthers

  44. Question 5 - 20 • In the 1978 affirmative action case, Universityof California Regents v. Bakke, the Supreme Court ruled that?

  45. Answer 5 – 20 • Universities could not make race the only factor considered for acceptance

  46. Question 5 - 30 • Outlawed segregation in most public facilities and also discrimination?

  47. Answer 5 – 30 • Civil Rights Act of 1964

  48. Question 5 - 40 • Outlawed poll taxes?

  49. Answer 5 – 40 • 24th Amendment

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