Civil Rights 2 of 2

Montgomery bus boycott fought the transportation battle while the Selma to Montgomery marches protested voting rights inequalities; the Brown v. Board of Education decision declared segregation to be unconstitutional while the _________________________ ended racial discrimination at the polls.

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• Harlem riots of 1964

• Watts riots of 1965

• Brown v. Board of Education

Civil rights marchers stay close to the ground as Mississippi Highway Patrolmen use tear gas on the protesters. Canton, Mississippi.

• June 23, 1966.

• June 23, 1969.

• June 13, 1986.

• June 23, 1986.

Twelve-year-old Sarah Jean Collins lies in a hospital bed following the bombing of the ________________ Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama on September 15, 1963.

The bombing, carried out by four members of the Ku Klux Klan, killed Collins' sister and ________ other girls as her Sunday school class was ending.

• 16th Street, three

• 26th Street, thirteen

• 18th Street, four

• 26th Street, three

Civil rights leader Andrew Young (left) and others standing on the balcony of _________________ point in the direction of the then unknown assailant just after the fatal bullet struck Martin Luther King Jr., who is lying at their feet. April 4, 1968.

• Memphis' Lorraine Motel

• Atlanta' Lorraine Motel

• Houston' Lorraine Motel

• Birmingham' Lorraine Motel

A first-grade girl is escorted by US Federal Marshals to a grade school that is being guarded by city police on the first day of school integration by order of the federal court. ___________________________. November 14, 1960.

• New Orleans, Louisiana

• Baton Rouge, Louisiana

• Lafayette, Louisiana

A nervous young girl sits in the front row of her newly desegregated class, in which she is the only African-American. Tennessee. _______________________.

• September 1957

• September 1959

• September 1967

____________________ trainees endure an "egg shampoo" exercise in preparation for remaining calm during nonviolent demonstrations Location unspecified. August 11, 1963.

• Congress of Racial Equality

• Congress of Racial Desegregation

• Congress of Racial Injustice

What were the three main causes of poverty that President Johnson "War on Poverty" were designed to address?

• Inadequate public services, Illiteracy, Unemployment

• Congress of Racial Equality, literacy, Unemployment

• Housing and Urban development

Who is Margaret Mead?

• an American cultural anthropologist, a pioneer of the feminist movement in America, an important popularizer of anthropology, and one of the most prominent public intellectuals of her time. through her work that many people learned about anthropology and its holistic vision of the human species.

• an American political activist, academic, and author. She emerged as a prominent counterculture activist and radical in the 1960s as a leader of the Communist Party USA, and had close relations with the Black Panther Party through her involvement in the Civil Rights

• A leading figure in the women's movement in the United States, her 1963 book The Feminine Mystique is often credited with sparking the second wave of American feminism in the 20th century

• an American educator and civil rights activist. Clark developed the literacy and citizenship workshops that played an important role in the drive for voting rights and civil rights for African Americans in the Civil Rights Movement.

What was the Impact of Social Science on the Women's Liberation Movement?

• Social scientists, especially women such as anthropologist, Margaret Mead, began to see women’s low status in Western society as the creation of a male-dominated power structure rather than as biological necessity.

• Birth control pills protected women from un-wanted pregnancy. The Women’s Movement attacked the myth of female passivity. Women objected to being treated as “sexual objects” instead of as full human beings

• Highly educated & talented women provided dynamic leadership. Feminist leaders included Betty Friedan & Gloria Steinem. Steinem founded Ms. Magazine, devoted to women’s concerns and viewpoints decidedly different from traditional woman’s magazines.