Unit 8 Civil Rights Review

When did Georgia change the state flag to incorporate the Confederate battle flag?

• Before Brown v. Board of Education to pay tribute to the civil war.

• After Brown V. Board of Education to show Georgia's resistance to the federal government's integration laws

• The Georgia flag never incorporated the Confederate battle flag.

What did the Sibley Commission recommend to Governor Vandiver?

• integrate Georgia's public transportation system

• the Ga. General Assembly should address racial issues

• local school systems should decide if they wanted to integrate

• the state government should hire more black workers

In Brown v. Board of Education, Thurgood Marshall argued that school segregation violated what?

• Civil Rights Act

• 14th Amendment

• Voting Rights Act

• 13th Amendment

The protections and privileges given to all citizens by federal and state constitutions and laws.

• Civil rights
• constitution
• Animal rights

A group of college students who held sit-ins at segregated restaurants along with promoted voter registration:

• Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

• Children of MLK Together

• All Civil Rights Activists United

• Tuskegee Coalition

Leader of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee, leader of the Selma March, current U.S. Representative from Georgia

• John Lewis

• Dr. Marin Luther King, Jr.

• Maynard Jackson

• Andrew Young

The Civil Rights Act of 1964:

• The law banned the use of civil lawyers in a court room

• Law that banned Civil Rights protests in Washington

• A play performed on Broadway about Martin Luther King Jr.

• This law banned discrimination against any American because of race/color/religion

Which group conducted sit-ins at lunch counters in order to boycott businesses that wouldn’t serve blacks

• Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee

• Sibley Commission

• Freedom Riders

• General Assembly

What did Martin Luther King Jr. believe was the one good outcome of the Albany movement?

• The government welcomed the protestors

• To have too many groups protests at once could be a good thing.

• Civil rights leaders could use the experience they gained to organize more successful protests

What event is being described: 250,000 protesters came; Martin Luther King gave his "I Have a Dream Speech"; Led to the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

• Albany Movement

• March on Washington

• March from Selma to Montgomery

• Atlanta Race Riot