Duplicate of Holt McDougal, The Americans, Ch. 21 Civil Rights Movement

Question 1

To put pressure on the federal government 250,000 people congregated on the Mall in August 1963

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March on Washington

Question 2

In 1960 African Americans protesters sat at segregated lunch counters and waited to be served.

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Sit Ins

Question 3

Formed to "carry on non-violent crusades against the evils of second class citizenship."

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Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

Question 4

Name for various ideologies aimed at achieving self-determination for African descendants

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Black Power

Question 5

Elected leader of the Montgomery Improvement Assoc. he ran the bus boycott

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

Question 6

Introduced by Pres. Kennedy, fostered and pushed by Pres. Johnson the Civil Rights Act of 1964

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prohibited discrimination based on race, religion, or gender

Question 7

A member of the NAACP and a lawyer, he argued and won 29 of 32 cases before the Supreme Court.

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Thurgood Marshall

Question 8

American service agency founded to eliminate racial segregation and discrimination

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National Urban League

Question 9

In 1964 SNCC and CORE began registering as many African Americans to vote as they could during

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Freedom Summer

Question 10

Religious group combining elements of traditional Islam with black nationalist ideas.

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Nation of Islam

Question 11

Militant leader of SNCC, clashed with MLK Jr over how the civil rights movement should be run

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Stokley Carmichael

Question 12

In 1965 he became the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court

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Thurgood Marshall

Question 13

A self-taught man he urged his followers to take control of their communities, culture, & jobs

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Malcolm X

Question 14

This landmark Supreme Court decision handed down on May 17, 1954 struck down school segregation

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Brown v. Board of Education

Question 15

Another important results of the civil rights movement was the Civil Rights Act of 1968 which

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ended discrimination in housing

Question 16

Air Force veteran who won a federal court case to enroll at all-white University of Mississippi

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James Meredith

Question 17

Congress finally passed Johnson's Voting Rights Act of 1968 which

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eliminated literacy tests which had disqualified some voters

Question 18

This group was formed to study the causes of urban violence.

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Kerner Commission

Question 19

Radical political party founded in 1966 to fight police brutality in ghettos

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Black Panthers

Question 20

Civil rights activists who were part of an integrated bus ride across the South were known as

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Freedom Riders

Question 21

This form of segregation exists by practice or custom

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de facto

Question 22

This form of segregation is segregation by law

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de jure

Question 23

On Dec 1, 1955, this colored seamstress was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus

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Rosa Parks

Question 24

The personal rights of the individual citizen, in most countries upheld by law.

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Civil Rights

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