Key Events of the Civil Rights Movements

How did President Truman address the expansion of civil rights?

• signed an Executive Order banning discrimination in the defense industry 
• signed an Executive Order to desegregate the armed forces
• passed anti-lynching laws
• founded the NAACP

The largest effect of this Supreme Court ruling was to

•  establish affirmative action programs in higher education
•    require the integration of public schools
• desegregate the armed forces and the military academies
•  force states to spend an equal amount on each public school student

14 year old boy who was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan because he whistled at a white women.

• Jimmie Lee Jackson
• Emmett Till
• Malcolm X
• Jesse Jackson

Brown v. Board of Education was famous because the court ruled that it is illegal

• allow children to work.
• to pay black people less than white people.
• to return a slave.
• to segregate schools.

Rosa Parks is most associated with

• March on Washington
• militant movements.
• Montgomery Bus Boycott
• Brown v. Board of Education

What is the name of the group of African American students who were enrolled into an all white high school but faced heavy backlash?

• Freedom Riders
• Little Rock Nine
• The Squad
• Montomery Men

What type of protest took place in Greensboro, NC in 1960?

• peace march
• Freedom Ride
• sit-in
• boycott

During the Montgomery City Boycott (of Rosa Parks fame), African Americans and their allies walked instead of:

• Driving to their job each day.
• Paying for a taxi each day to work.
• Riding the local buses to work each day.
• There was no boycott.

The freedom rides

• Consisted of whites and blacks protesting together.
• Consisted of whites only.
• Consisted of blacks only.
• Never existed.

The freedom rides' strategy:

• To create a big protest.
• To test the federal government willingness to enforce their law in states who ignored it.
• To cause segregationists to be upset.
• To create hysteria.