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Review Quiz for Civil Rights 9th grade
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1
What was the Black Power movement?
called for integration of professional sports
wanted African Americans to rely on themselves for change
civil rights program created by the Nation of Islam
taught African Americans the power of nonviolent resistance
2
Which lawyer worked with the NAACP on the Brown vs Board of Education case?
Thurgood Marshall
James Farmer
Jackie Robinson
Rosa Parks
3
What was one effect of segregated schools on African American children?
felt resentful of the advantages that white children had
they attended school less often than white children
they believed in Black Power
they believed they weren't as good as white children
4
What was the effect of the Montgomery bus boycott?
desegregation of bus station waiting rooms and restrooms
organization of boycotts across the country
emergence of the Black Power movement
ban against segregation in all public facilities
5
Robert Kennedy urged civil rights workers to focus on voter registration because
thought registration was better than desegregation
JFK would win the next election with the Black vote
wanted to divert attention from N. civil rights violations
he believed it was the key to change
6
"I ain't going to jail no more" was a slogan for
Freedom Rides
Black Power
nonviolent resistance
MFDP
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What kind of programs did the government design to compensate for past discrimination?
affirmative action
education
8
___ offered African American students help with reading and math and taught black history.
segregated school
Freedom Schools
9
J. Edgar Hoover created an FBI program to infiltrate and investigate what group?
civil rights
Black Power
10
What strategy did the NAACP adopt to fight for civil rights?
sit-ins
attacking racism in the courts
massive resitance
direct nonviolence
11
What kind of segregation exists through custom and practice rather than law?
De jure
De facto
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Segregation by law
Plessy vs. Ferguson
de facto
Black Power
de jure
13
Became the first African American major league baseball player
James Farmer
Jackie Robinson
Thurgood Marshall
Rosa Parker
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Which event was an indication of the coming split between SNCC and the SCLC?
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Civil Rights Act of 1968
Watts Riot
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party formed
15
Non violent actions planned by CORE
de jure
Freedom rides
de facto
Little Rock Nine
16
Why did Martin Luther King, Jr. want to begin the Poor People's Campaign?
he had achieved his goal of voting rights for Blacks
believed that poverty affected African Americans more
He grew up poor and wanted to protest economic injustice
basic rights for Blacks had not happened-needed new tactics
17
represented a radical shift in the civil rights movement
de jure segregation
Plessy vs. Ferguson
de facto segregation
Black Power
18
Effect of segregation and the teaching of nonviolent protest methods
emergece of the Nation of Islam
Freedom Summer
Sit-in movement
Freedom Rides
19
The success of sit-ins throughout the South led to the formation of which organization?
NAACP
CORE
NOW
SNCC
20
Eloquent leader of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
Stokely Carmichael
George Wallace
Fannie Lou Hamer
Jackie Robinson
21
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party hoped to accomplish this at the 1964 Dem Nat'l convention
replace current delegates with own delegates
compromise with the Dem. Party on MS representatives
expose racism in the Dem. Party
merge with the NAACP
22
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
abolished slavery
gave African Americans to right to vote
abolished the poll tax
banned discrimination in employment and housing
23
Robert Kennedy urged civil rights workers to focus their efforts on
voter registration
integrating public facilities
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Why was the tactic of nonviolence so successful in achieving change?
Influenced Supreme Court justices into making moral laws
Segregationists saw they didn't need to fear Black people
state gov't enforced the law and protected African Americans
Violent segregationists outraged other Americans
25
"Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever." Who said this?
Medgar Evers
J. Edgar Hoover
George Wallace
James Meredith
