Extra Credit - 21.0 - The Civil Rights Movement

Question 1

Which decades featured critical accomplishments in the struggle for civil rights?

Accepted Answer

1950s and 1960s

Question 2

Which performer was the first African-American to win an Academy Award for lead-actor in a motion picture?

Accepted Answer

Sidney Poitier in Lilies of the Field

Question 3

The Edmund Pettus Bridge, which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and others marched across, was named after...

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a Confederate General and reputed grand-dragon of the Alabama Ku Klux Klan.

Question 4

All of the following actions taken by Congress during the 1970s advanced women&#x27;s rights EXCEPT...

Accepted Answer

the placement of statues that honored women&#x27;s rights activists.

Question 5

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits employment that discriminates based on...

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race and national origin.

Question 6

All of the following were developments in the civil rights movement of the 1950s EXCEPT...

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the &#x27;Southern Manifesto&#x27; was issued in Congress.

Question 7

In its decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, the Supreme Court...

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declared separate educational facilities to be inherently unequal.

Question 8

Poll taxes, literacy tests, and other barriers to black enfranchisement were made illegal with the passage of...

Accepted Answer

the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Question 9

After the Montgomery Bus Boycott, college students...

Accepted Answer

formed the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC); used sit-ins.

Question 10

Which athlete broke the color-barrier and became the 1st African-American to play for a Major-League Baseball team?

Accepted Answer

Jackie Robinson for the LA Dodgers

Question 11

Who led the longest filibuster in US History in an effort to prevent the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

Accepted Answer

Strom Thurmond; Senator from South Carolina

Question 12

The debate over civil rights often centers on...

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the question of equality of opportunity versus equality of results.

Question 13

The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) provided...

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that no state or Congress could deny equal rights on account of sex.

Question 14

"This is an unlawful assembly... Go home or go to your church. This march will not continue.” - this quote is from...

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the crossing of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama

Question 15

Native Americans gained US citizenship with...

Accepted Answer

a federal law passed by Congress.

Question 16

Which civil rights leader was assassinated for their effort to promote a free and fair society?

Accepted Answer

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, Robert F. Kennedy

Question 17

Two schools — one for white students and the other for black students — would have been legal after what SC decision?

Accepted Answer

Plessy v. Ferguson

Question 18

Who promised to propose a civil rights bill to Congress, but was assassinated before this promise could be fulfilled?

Accepted Answer

John F. Kennedy

Question 19

Which of the following Supreme Court cases involved reproductive rights for women?

Accepted Answer

Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) and Roe v. Wade (1973)

Question 20

What southern city&#x27;s police department was complicit in working with the KKK to interfere with the Freedom Riders?

Accepted Answer

Birmingham, Alabama

Question 21

Racial prejudice that results from law rather than practice is called...

Accepted Answer

de jure discrimination.

Question 22

Emmitt Till was...

Accepted Answer

a victim of a horrific lynching.

Question 23

As a result of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas,...

Accepted Answer

the slow process of desegregating schools throughout the country began.

Question 24

Greensboro, North Carolina and Nashville, Tennessee were the epicenters for what form of non-violent protest?

Accepted Answer

sit-ins

Question 25

What did the 1966 election of Stokely Carmichael to the head of the SNCC represent for that civil rights group?

Accepted Answer

a movement towards Black Power and Black separatism

Question 26

When George Wallace ran for President as the leader of the Independent Party in 1968, he supported...

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resegregatting the South.

Question 27

When the Chicano Movement faced challenges, activists chose to focus on all of the following issues EXCEPT...

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a lack of access to natural resources; especially water.

Question 28

During the 1960s and 1970s, how did Mexican-American students protest against academic inequality?

Accepted Answer

staged walk-outs and sit-ins

Question 29

How did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 fight racial discrimination in hiring practices?

Accepted Answer

it established the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)

Question 30

Where did Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. direct his attention when confronting the issue of voting rights?

Accepted Answer

Dallas County, Alabama

Question 31

Beyond religious faith, what contributed to Malcolm X, Elijah Muhammad, and Muhammad Ali changing their birth-names?

Accepted Answer

they wanted to reclaim their identities; &#x27;decolonize&#x27;

Question 32

What event occurred in August of 1963, leading to the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1964?

Accepted Answer

the March on Washington

Question 33

Racial prejudice that results from practice rather than law is called...

Accepted Answer

de facto discrimination.

Question 34

The South responded to court-ordered desegregation...

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with massive resistance.

Question 35

Title IX has become controversial because...

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men’s sports teams were cut to create equality with women’s sports teams.

Question 36

What were some of the demands of the Black Panther Party, as laid out in their Ten-Point Program of 1966?

Accepted Answer

equitable employment and an end to police brutality

Question 37

The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) passed both houses of Congress, but failed to be ratified by the states

Accepted Answer

True

Question 38

Which civil rights leader rejected nonviolence, maintaining that violence in the face of violence was appropriate?

Accepted Answer

Malcolm X

Question 39

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.&#x27;s philosophy of protest stressed...

Accepted Answer

nonviolent, passive resistance.

Question 40

After Brown v. Board of Topeka, Kansas, where did a crisis erupt surrounding the desegregation of public schools?

Accepted Answer

Little Rock, Arkansas

Extra Credit - 21.0 - The Civil Rights Movement

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Extra Credit - 21.0 - The Civil Rights Movement

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