F&C: Civil Rights Organizations and Legislation

The NAACP wanted to advance ​ (a)   for ​ (b)  

• justice
• African Americans
• happiness
• Korean Americans

What group/individuals sought to improve the treatment of migrant workers through boycotts and strikes?

• SNCC, Martin Luther King

• Black Panthers, Newton

• United Farm Workers Union, Dolores Huerta & Cesar Chavez

• Immigration Union, Dolores Huerta & Cesar Chavez

Match the following

• civil rights organization that focused on changing segregation and voter registration laws

• AIM

• An organization dedicated to combating racism through nonviolent group protests

• SNCC (Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee)

• Founded in 1968 to encourage self-determination among Native Americans

• SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference)

• organization formed to give younger African Americans more of a voice in the civil rights movement

• CORE (Congress of Racial Equality)

Which law helped women athletes obtain greater support in American high schools and universities?

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Title IX

• Twenty-sixth Amendment

• Affirmative action

Match the amendment with the protection it guarantees

• 15th

  Amendment

• Grants citizenship to all persons born in the U.S. regardless of race, color,

  or previous condition of servitude.

• 13th

  Amendment

• Bans slavery in the United States and all of its territories.

• 14th

  Amendment

• Ensures all persons born in the U.S. have the right to vote regardless of

  race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

The ​ (a)   was approved by both Houses of Congress in 1972, but it failed to be ratified by the states.

• Equal Rights Amendment
• Title IX
• term limits for Congress people
• American Indian Citizenship Act

Government agencies could not discriminate in hiring is to Equal Employment Opportunity As law requiring equality in workplace is to _______________

• March on Washington

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 ended poll taxes and literacy tests as a prerequisite to vote, resulting in -

• women gaining the right to vote

• veterans of the Korean War voting in larger numbers

• larger voter participation in the North than the South

• increased voting rates of minorities

How did the Voting Rights Act of 1965 contribute to the changes shown in this table?

• It helped reduce voter discrimination at polling sites

• It increased state revenues associated with poll taxes

• It contributed to increased involvement of lobbyists in political campaigns.

• It helped voters determine educational policy based on literacy test results.

An organization formed in 1960 to coordinate sit-ins and other protests and to give young blacks a larger role in the civil rights movement.

• affirmative action
• de facto segregation
• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee 
• National Organization for Women