US HISTORY



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US HISTORY

CIVIL RIGHTS

STUDY GUIDE

Which Civil Rights leader also became the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court?

a) W.E.B. Dubois

b) Martin Luther King Jr.

c) Thurgood Marshall

d) Rosa Parks

What was the significance of sending federal troops to protect African American students in Little Rock Arkansas in 1957?

a) It led to a federal takeover of many Southern public schools

b) It strengthened control of education by state governments

c) It was the first time martial law had been declared in the United States

d) It showed that government would enforce court decisions on integration

Until 1965, the civil rights movement focused on

|a. |changing attitudes rather than creating jobs. |

|b. |violent protest rather than peaceful confrontation. |

|c. |economic rather than social problems. |

|d. |segregation and voting rights rather than economic and social problems. |

The organization founded by student civil rights activists was

|a. |SNCC. |

|b. |CORE. |

|c. |NAACP. |

|d. |SCLC. |

At first President Kennedy acted slowly on civil rights because

|a. |he was not sure such laws were really needed. |

|b. |he needed support from many Southern senators to get other programs passed. |

|c. |he believed that civil rights had to evolve gradually, as people’s values changed. |

|d. |he did not want to provoke violence in the South. |

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1. What Supreme Court decision was overturned by Brown v. Board of Education? What did practice did Brown v. Board end?

2. What is “de facto segregation”? did de facto segregation laws exist throughout the south or only in part of it.

3. What are “Jim Crow” laws?

4. What was decided in Norris v. Alabama?

5. What was decided in Morgan v. Virginia?

6. What was decided in Sweatt v. Painter?

7. Who formed CORE?

8. What was a “sit in”?

9. What was the purpose of Core?

10. What was the case of Linda Brown based on?

11. What was the Southern Manifesto? Who issued it and why was it issued?

12. Who rose to prominence as a result of Montgomery Bus Boycott?

13. Who was a major influence on the philosophy of Martin Luther King?

14. Who was Rosa Parks?

15. What resulted from the arrest of Rosa Parks?

16. Who established the SCLC and what was its’ purpose?

17. Who was the first president to enforce desegregation?

18. How did the governor of Arkansas try to stop the students from entering Central High?

19. What did Eisenhower have to do to force integration in Central High?

20. Did Eisenhower believe that racism and integration could be accomplished quickly?

The Kerner Commission blamed the majority of the inner-city problems on

|a. |white society and white racism. |

|b. |lack of job skills. |

|c. |the nonviolence of African Americans. |

|d. |militant African Americans. |

The ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896 had established

|a. |the right of African Americans to vote. |

|b. |the right of all Americans to peaceful protest. |

|c. |the separate-but-equal doctrine. |

|d. |the right of all Americans to equal protection under the law. |

The Freedom Riders were organized to draw attention to the South’s refusal to

|a. |promote voter registration. |

|b. |end school segregation. |

|c. |stop violence against voters. |

|d. |integrate bus terminals. |

21. Among the causes of the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s were all of the

following factors except

A) millions of blacks had learned much about the world by serving in World War II

B) a large and strong black middle class had developed by that time

C) television had allowed many blacks to see what racism was depriving them of

D) the Republican president had decided that the time was right for major advances in civil

rights

E) African-Americans were inspired by Jackie Robinson's baseball success

22. The most significant accomplishment of the Montgomery boycott was that it led to

A) immediate victory over segregation laws concerning public transportation

B) the elevation of Martin Luther King, Jr., to prominence as a civil rights leader

C) the creation of the NAACP

D) most Southern whites accepting desegregation with no further resistance

E) President Eisenhower's decision to seek a voting rights act

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1. How did Jesse Jackson first participate in the civil rights movement?

2. What was SNCC and who was its first chairman?

3. What was the focus of the Voter Education Project?

4. Did Kennedy promise to support Civil Rights when he was campaigning for the presidency?

5. Why did Kennedy move slowly on civil rights in the first years of his presidency?

6. Who formed the Freedom Riders?

7. What was the purpose of the Freedom Rider movement?

8. What happened when the Freedom Riders went into Alabama?

9. Why did Kennedy allow the Freedom Riders to be arrested?

10. Who was Bull Connor?

11. What role did Robert Kennedy and the Justice Department play in the attempts to integrate the South?

12. Who was James Meredith?

13. Who was the first president to send troops into the south since the reconstruction to protect the rights of African Americans?

14. What was King trying to say in “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”?

15. What was the event that helped to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

16. Where and when was the “I have a dream” speech given?

17. What is a filibuster?

18. What did the 24th Amendment do?

19. Why did MLK choose Selma for the March?

20. What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 focus on? What did it ignore?

De facto segregation resulted from

A) state and federal laws

B) residential housing patterns

C) judicial decisions

D) presidential orders

E) ineffective immigration laws

"Affirmative action" is best described as the legal requirement that

A) employers abandon practices that deny employment to blacks

B) employers be forced to obey federal and state laws that protect the civil rights of all

C) employers take positive measures to recruit minorities to compensate for past injustices

D) employers establish racial quotas for their workforce

E) employers hire workers who belong to Community Action organizations

The high-water mark of peaceful interracial civil rights demonstrations was the

A) 1961 "sit-in" in North Carolina

B) Albany Movement of 1962

C) Selma March of 1965

D) August 1963 March on Washington, D.C.

E) 1964 Freedom Summer

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was designed to

A) all of the answers below

B) ensure the voting rights of blacks

C) provide blacks equal access to public accommodations

D) end discrimination in employment

E) install voluntary voting codes in the South

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1. By 1965, 70% of Black Americans lived where?

2. What were some of the problems faced by Black Americans in the cities?

3. What did the Civil Rights Movement focus on before 1965?

4. What was the focus after 1965?

5. What was the Kerner Commission and what did it do?

6. According to the Kerner Commission, what was the cause of most inner city problems?

7. What is cultural assimilation and why was it opposed by Black Nationalists?

8. Did Black Muslims have the same beliefs as other Black Americans?

9. Where did Malcolm X get his name?

10. Who were the Black Panthers? Who were the primary leaders?

11. Where was Martin Luther King assassinated?

12. How did Martin Luther King’s death mark the end of an era in civil rights?

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