Civil Rights

Question 1

Affirmative Action provides efforts to hire or enroll groups that have suffered discrimination before.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 2

Political organization founded in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, to fight police brutality

Accepted Answer

Black Panthers

Question 3

Southern Christian Leadership Conference carries out nonviolent protests and demonstrations against unequal treatment

Accepted Answer

True

Question 4

These laws segregated the races in the South.

Accepted Answer

Jim Crow

Question 5

Who won a federal court case to enroll in the all-white University of Mississippi?

Accepted Answer

James Meredith

Question 6

Voting Rights Act of 1965: end barriers state/local levels that prevented Blacks from exercising their right to vote.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 7

This was established in 1909 and is America's oldest and largest civil rights organization.

Accepted Answer

NAACP

Question 8

The Supreme Court ruling of Plessy v Ferguson said that the "separate but equal" law did not violate the 14th amendment

Accepted Answer

True

Question 9

Name the song

Accepted Answer

Blame it on the Boogie

Question 10

What is the name of this song?

Accepted Answer

Push It

Question 11

He was a social activist, Baptist minister, and a key leader in the American Civil Rights movement.

Accepted Answer

Martin Luther King Jr.

Question 12

Segregation that exists by practice and custom is called de facto segregation

Accepted Answer

True

Question 13

Civil rights activist, leader of black nationalism, in the 1960s and originator black power

Accepted Answer

Stokely Carmichael

Question 14

Voter registration drive (CORE) (SNCC)… increasing black voter registration in Mississippi , 1964

Accepted Answer

Freedom Summer

Question 15

Where was the civil rights protest where African-Americans boycotted and refused to ride city buses?

Accepted Answer

Montgomery, Alabama

Question 16

Activists that challenged segregation on interstate buses and bus terminals.

Accepted Answer

Freedom Riders

Question 17

Protesters sat down at segregated lunch counters and refused to leave until they were served.

Accepted Answer

Sit-ins

Question 18

What civil rights group was formed to give younger people more of a voice in the civil rights movement?

Accepted Answer

SNCC

Question 19

What civil rights, political party formed in 64 as an alternative to the conservative Democratic Party of Mississippi?

Accepted Answer

Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

Question 20

This march demanded a Civil Rights bill in 1963, famous I Have a Dream Speech.

Accepted Answer

March on Washington

Question 21

Prohibited discrimination of race, religion, national origin, gender, all citizens the right to public accommodations

Accepted Answer

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Question 22

Rosa Parker was an activist who refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 23

Selma, Alabama, 1965, a 50 mile march from Selma to Montgomery. What did this campaign/march want?

Accepted Answer

Voting

Question 24

This Supreme Court decision ruled against separate but equal, and demanded desegregation of schools.

Accepted Answer

Brown v Board of Education

Question 25

Martin Luther King’s was assassinated by, ___________, April 4th, 1968.

Accepted Answer

James Earl Ray

Question 26

Who is this singer from the 1950's?

Accepted Answer

Little Richard

Question 27

First black U.S. Supreme Court justice and civil rights advocate.

Accepted Answer

Thurgood Marshall

Question 28

African American leader and prominent figure in the Nation of Islam, assassinated

Accepted Answer

Malcolm X

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