Final Exam 2020-2021 - CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Affirmative Action was a program aimed at segregating and excluding minorities.

The Black Panthers were a political party created to fight police brutality and violent resistance to whites.

Fannie Lou Hammer was the founder of the black power movement.

______ was the leader of the Civil Rights movement. He was a Baptist preacher who believed in peaceful protests.

__________was the lawyer who led the legal challenge against segregation.

A ______ was a protest strategy during which blacks sat at whites-only lunch counters until they were served.

The court case Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka determined that _____.

The Civil Rights Act of _____ banned discrimination based on race, religion, national origin, or gender.

____ urged African Americans to fight back, but later changed his views and encouraged peaceful protest to win equality.

Stokely Carmichael was a black leader who started the ______ movement.

________ segregation was by custom or practice. _______ segregation was by law.

James Meredith was the first African American to win enrollment to the all-white University of Mississippi.