4 Written Questions

1. The first African American player in the major league of baseball. His actions helped to bring about other opportunities for African Americans.
2. stop voting discrimination in the south - Suspended literacy tests, empowered federal officials to register voters, prohibited states from changing voting procedures without federal permission.
3. Was intended to protect the right of African American's to vote. The act brought the power of the federal government into the civil rights debate. The act created a civil rights division within the Department of Justice and gave it the authority to seek court injunctions against anyone interfering with the right to vote. Also created the US commission on Civil Rights to investigate allegations of denial of voting rights.
4. four black college students in this North Carolina town protested in a department store cafeteria by sitting in the white-only section for three days because they were not being served

4 Multiple Choice Questions

1. United States civil rights leader who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery (Alabama) and so triggered the national civil rights movement (born in 1913)
   1. Medgar Evers
   2. SCLC
   3. Rosa Parks
   4. Greensboro
2. racist governor of Alabama in 1962 ("segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever"); runs for pres. In 1968 on American Independent Party ticket of racism and law and order, loses to Nixon; runs in 1972 but gets shot
   1. Greensboro
   2. Rosa Parks
   3. George Wallace
   4. SCLC
3. Director of the NAACP in Mississippi and a lawyer who defended accused Blacks, he was murdered in his driveway by a member of the Ku Klux Klan.
   1. Robert Kennedy
   2. Medgar Evers
   3. Greensboro
   4. Rosa Parks
4. Southern Christian Leadership Conference, churches link together to inform blacks about changes in the Civil Rights Movement, led by MLK Jr., was a success
   1. SCLC
   2. Greensboro
   3. George Wallace
   4. Rosa Parks

3 True/False Questions

1. Little Rock Crisis → 9 African American students were enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in an effort to desegregate the school; Governor Faubus tried to stop the students from attending

   True        False

2. Organization of Afro-American Unity → black nationalist organization founded in 1964 by Malcolm X. Modeled on the Organization of African Unity, the purpose of the ______ was to fight for the human rights of African Americans and promote cooperation among Africans and Afro-Americans in the Americas.

   True        False

3. Robert Kennedy → He was a Democrat who ran for president in 1968 promoting civil rights and other equality based ideals. He was ultimately assassinated in 1968, leaving Nixon to take the presidency but instilling hope in many Americans.

   True        False