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Civil Rights Movement Test

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5 Written Questions

5 Matching Questions

  1. Nashville sit-ins
  2. Robert Moses
  3. SCLC
  4. Betty Friedan
  5. Fannie Lou Hamer
  1. a influential leader in SNCC; directed Freedom Summer to register black voters
  2. b early success of disciplined nonviolence --> many stores in downtown Nashville desegregated
  3. c spokesperson for the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party at the 1964 Democratic Convention
  4. d American feminist, activist and writer. started "Second Wave" of feminism through her book "The Feminine Mystique"; also founded Nation Organization for Women (NOW)
  5. e The Southern Chritian Leadership Conference which was a group that coordinated non-violent civil rights protests across the South; founded by MLK

5 Multiple Choice Questions

  1. held in 1963 to show support for the Civil Rights Bill in Congress. Martin Luther King gave his famous "I have a dream..." speech
  2. A militant black political party --> marked a shift in policy of the black movement, favoring militant ideals rather than peaceful protest.
  3. founded SCLC ---> spokesperson for the Montgomery bus boycott --> peaceful protest
  4. American civil rights lawyer of the Brown v. Board victory --> first black justice on the Supreme Court
  5. A radical group advocating black; helped blacks register to vote; Led by Stokely Carmichael --> scornful of integration and and interracial cooperation --> broke with MLK Jr. to advocate greater militancy and acts of violence --> wanted immediate change

5 True/False Questions

  1. Brown v. Board of Education of TopekaIn a 9-0 vote, the separate but equal doctrine was abandoned --> racial segregation declared unconstitutional

          

  2. Selma to Montgomery MarchA militant black political party --> marked a shift in policy of the black movement, favoring militant ideals rather than peaceful protest.

          

  3. Voting Rights Act of 1965Landmark legislation that outlawed segregation in U.S. schools, jobs and public places. --> Invalidated Jim Crow laws

          

  4. Freedom SummerIn 1964, when blacks and whites together challenged segregation and led a massive drive to register blacks to vote.

          

  5. Civil Rights Act of 1968Landmark legislation that outlawed segregation in U.S. schools, jobs and public places. --> Invalidated Jim Crow laws