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Worksheet time: 33mins
This person was the first African-American to integrate Major League Baseball:
Jackie Robinson
Branch Rickey
Satchell Paige
Josh Gibson
This person was the General Manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers who signed the first African-American player to integrate Major League Baseball:
Jackie Robinson
Branch Rickey
Satchell Paige
Josh Gibson
The event where many African-Americans migrated from south to north in search of jobs:
Harlem Renaisance
Great Migration
Jim Crow Laws
Gi BIll of Rights
This created segregation by allowing for seperate but equal public facilities in America:
Harlem Renaisance
Great Migration
Jim Crow Laws
Gi BIll of Rights
The crime used to enforce Jim Crow and other segregation laws which largely went unreported from 1877-1941:
Lynching
Segregation
Lunch counters
Poll Tax
This program largely created a middle class but exempted African-Americans or denied them access:
Great Migration
New Deal
CPI
Hoover Dam
This organization fought racist laws in the courts:
NAACP
National Urban League
SCLC
SNCC
This organization tried to help African-Americans find jobs and housing during the Great Migrations:
NAACP
National Urban League
SCLC
SNCC
This organization led demonstrations throughout the south led by Martin Luther King. It practiced the philosophy of non-violent resistance:
NAACP
National Urban League
SCLC
SNCC
This organization led the sit-ins and the Freedom Rides. It later split on the issue of violence:
NAACP
National Urban League
SCLC
SNCC
She was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white person:
Claudette Colvin
Rosa Parks
Viola Davis
Octavia Spencer
The leader of SCLC who preached non-violent civil disobedience:
Martin Luther King
Stokely Carmichael
Malcolm X
Elijah Muhammed
A one time member of SNCC, he created a new group called the Black Panthers:
Martin Luther King
Stokely Carmichael
Malcolm X
Elijah Muhammed
The leader of the Nation of Islam who preached racial seperation and conversion to Islam:
Martin Luther King
Stokely Carmichael
Malcolm X
Elijah Muhammed
Once a member of the Nation of Islam, he broke away and formed his own group but was assassinated in 1965 :
Martin Luther King
Stokely Carmichael
Malcolm X
Elijah Muhammed
This tactic is used in the legislative branch. It means to talk endlessly to try to prevent debate or a vote on an issue:
cloture
filibuster
omnibus
committee
This tactic is used in the legislative branch. It limits debate to 30 minutes and forces a vote on an issue:
cloture
filibuster
omnibus
committee
In 1961, white and black volunteers boarded busses to test the enforcement of integrated public facilities. They were attacked in Anniston, Alabama:
Freedom Rides
March on Washington
Selma March
Montgomery Bus Boycott
In 1963, Martin Luther King held this event in Washington where he delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech:
Freedom Rides
March on Washington
Selma March
Montgomery Bus Boycott
On a bridge outside of town in Alabama, Civil Rights workers were ambushed by the State Police who chased down demonstrators on horseback, fired tear gas and beat them:
Freedom Rides
March on Washington
Selma March
Montgomery Bus Boycott
This event began when Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man. It lasted for over a year:
Freedom Rides
March on Washington
Selma March
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Governor of Arkansas who defied federal orders to allow integration of Central High School in Little Rock in 1957:
Orval Faubus
George Wallace
Ross Barnett
Strom Thurmond
Governor of Alabama who defied the federal government on integration and ordered police to attack demonstrators in Birmingham with dogs and high pressure fire hoses:
Orval Faubus
George Wallace
Ross Barnett
Strom Thurmond
Governor of Mississippi who refused to allow integration of the University of Mississippi and urged demonstrators to attack federal marshalls:
Orval Faubus
George Wallace
Ross Barnett
Strom Thurmond
South Carolina Senator who ran for President in 1948 as a Dixiecrat and openly defied integration laws:
Orval Faubus
George Wallace
Ross Barnett
Strom Thurmond
This was an event where demonstrators forced segratated restaurants to serve them:
Lock in
Sit in
Petition
Protest marches outside the doors
9 African-American were denied entry to Central High School in this state:
Arkansas
Georgia
Mississippi
Florida
This was NOT a tactic used to block African-Americans from voting:
Poll tax
Literacy test
Equal access
Grandfather clause
The case that overturned segregation laws in public schools:
Plessy v. Ferguson
Brown v. Board of Education
Korematsu v. U.S.
Boyton v. Virginia
The 24th Amendment ended:
Poll tax
Literacy test
Grandfather clause
Absentee balleting
This law banned discrimination and called for the federal government to intervene to protect voting rights and civil rights.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Freedom Summer
Brown v. Board of Education
Southern Manifesto
This act called for federal monitoring of polling stations and eliminated conditions to vote such as literacy tests:
Voting Rights Act
Brown v. Board of Education
CARES Act
24th Amendment
This document stated that they would defy integration laws using any means necessary
Civil Rights Act
Voting Rights Act
24th Amendment
Southern Manifesto
This organization led protest marches during World War II and sponsored the Freedom Riders
NAACP
National Urban League
CORE
SCLC
He wrote his famous letter from a Birmingham Jail while in jail during the Birmingham march:
Martin Luther King
Stokely Carmichael
Malcolm X
Elijah Muhammed
Freedom Riders tried to force this President to do his job:
Dwight D. Eisenhower
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Richard Nixon
In 1957, when 9 African-Americans were denied entry, it forced this President to send the army to enforce integregation of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas:
Dwight D. Eisenhower
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Richard Nixon
The Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Act were passed and signed into law by this President::
Dwight D. Eisenhower
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Richard Nixon
He was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee in April, 1968:
Martin Luther King
Malcolm X
Elijah Muhammed
Stokely Carmichael
Their slogan was Black Power:
SCLC
Nation of Islam
Black Muslims
Black Panthers
This was segregation by law:
De Jure
De Facto
This was segregation by existing ways such as poverty:
De Jure
De Facto
In June of 1968, he was assassinated after winning the California Democratic Primary in Los Angeles, California
Robert F. Kennedy
Martin Luther King
Lyndon B. Johnson
Richard Nixon
The civil rights movement splintered on this issue:
Poverty
Leadership
Money
Violence
"Cross out the longest word in this sentence." What tactic is this?
Debate
Literacy test
Defacto segregation
Poll tax
This white suprmecist organization terrorized African-Americans throughout the south:
Ku Klux Klan
Police
Sons of Liberty
Proud Boys
Tactic used in Montgomery against the city to force change on public transportation:
Boycott
Violence
Passive resistance
Fire bombing
This means to bring all races together:
Segregation
Integration
Gravity
Omnibus
Hispanics used MLK's tactics to allow integration of:
Arlington National Cemetary
Public busses
Barrios
Reservations
This lynching began to inspire many African-Americans to action:
Emmitt Till
Claude Moody
Claudette Colvin
Melvin Tullis
This Supreme Court case banned seperate facilities for bussing:
Brown v. Board of Education
Boynton v. Virginia
Loving v. Virginia
Plessy v. Ferguson
The Mississippi leader of the NAACP murdered by a white supremicist in 1963:
John Lewis
Andrew Goodman
Emmitt Till
Medgar Evars
A raised fist symbolized this:
Rainbow coalition
Black Power
Black Nationalism
White Pride
This commission stated that America had two societies: one white and one black, both unequal:
Kerner
Boyd
Watts
Klein
This city had a riot that led to it's major decline:
St. Lous
Detroit
Dallas
Miami
The Civil Rights Movement divided on this issue:
Leadership
Violence
Money
Membership
"If a white man touches me, I'm not going to turn the other cheek. I'm going to slap him back." This would best fit the views of the following:
Martin Luther King
Stokely Carmichael
Malcolm X
Elijah Muhammed
"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.." This would best fit the views of the following:
Martin Luther King
Stokely Carmichael
Malcolm X
Elijah Muhammed
"Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it" This would best fit the views of the following:
Martin Luther King
Stokely Carmichael
Malcolm X
Elijah Muhammed
"We serve Whites ONLY." What kind of segregation is this?
Defacto
Dejure
An employer denies a person a job because they don't have job skills What kind of segregation is this?
Defacto
Dejure
A person lacks an education due to the lack of funding their school receives. What kind of segregation is this?
Defacto
Dejure
A taxi refuses to pick up an African-American. What kind of discrimination is that?
Dejure
Defacto
You get followed in a store by security because you are a teenager. What kind of discrimination is that?
Dejure
Defacto
The Civil Rights Movement focused only on this kind of segregation
Dejure
Defacto
