Civil Rights Movement Test Prep

This was an terrorist group that was created after Reconstruction to inflict terror on people of color, and stop them from exercising their constitutional rights, such as voting

• COINTELPRO

• KKK

• SCLC

• SNCC

This term was first used by Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Touré) and called for the Black community to build structures and systems to take care of themselves. It came to describe a movement.

• Black Power

• Black Self-Determination

• Black Nationalism

• Black Panthers

The protests against South African Apartheid and racial discrimination organized by Civil Rights activists is an example of ____________: standing together with others for justice.

• Segregation

• Black Power

• Internationalism

• Solidarity

What did Rosa Parks' refusal to move seats lead to?

• The Birmingham Campaign

• The Greensboro Sit-Ins

• The Montgomery Bus Boycott

• The Civil Rights Movement

This group was started by students, helped organized the Greensboro sit-ins, the Birmingham Campaign, and was an integral part of nonviolent direct action during the Civil Rights Movement. Stokely Carmichael was part of this group before breaking off to join the Black Panthers.

• SCLC

• The Women's Political Council

• COINTELPRO

• SNCC

Answer explanation

The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

This was an example of non-violent direct action during the Civil Rights movement. This action included boycotts, sit-ins and protests. There were many arrests, including MLK Jr. and Ralph Abernathy and hundreds of students who came out to join the Children's Crusade.

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

• Birmingham Campaign

• Freedom Rides

• Freedom Schools

Answer explanation

Bull Connor and the local police meet the protestors with violence and arrests, turning hoses and police dogs on the mainly student protestors. The federal government eventually got involved.

________ Laws made segregation legal in the Southern states of the US. They were passed after Reconstruction and lasted until the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950's and 60's.

What was segregation?

• Mixing different races in schools.

• Allowing everyone to vote.

• Separating people based on their race.

• Sharing buses and trains equally.

Dr. King wrote his Letter from a Birmingham Jail in response to a letter from white clergy members telling the movement to "wait" for racial progress. His response was a criticism of these Americans and painted a picture of life in the segregated south, and the need for urgent action.

• White Moderates

• The Black Panthers

• Bull Connor and the Birmingham Police

• President Kennedy and the Federal Government

In 1964, the Southern Christian Leadership Council, led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr lead marches from __________ to Montgomery, Alabama to protest for a change in voting laws. The marches were met by intense police violence and saw the deaths of four activists.