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Civil Rights Review
What Supreme court case declared “separate is inherently
unequal”?
Brown v. Board of Ed.
The murder of this individual united the civil rights movement
in 1955.
Emmett Till
Martin Luther King Jr. was shot in this city in this year.
Memphis, TN; 1968
MLK Jr. wrote his famous letter from a jail defending his non-
violent strategies in what state?
Alabama
What is de facto segregation?
Segregation by custom, habit
Put the events in the correct order.
Letter from a Birmingham Jail, Montgomery Bus Boycott, March on
Washington, March from fear
The first African American to attend the University of
Mississippi
James Meredith
Name two campaigns that led to the passage of the Voting
Rights Act of 1965
Freedom Summer, Selma Campaign, MFDP’s stand at the Democratic
National Convention
What individual was chosen to represent the Mississippi
Freedom Democratic Party at the 1964 Democratic National
Convention?
Fannie Lou Hamer
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 did what?
Eliminated the literacy test
The founder of the Nation of Islam…
Elijah Muhammad
The Watts Riots took place in this city…
Los Angeles
This leader of SNCC eventually became a Black Panther.
Stokely Carmichael
The violence that resulted from MLK Jr.’s assassination may have influenced the violence that led to the assassination of this political
leader in the same year.
Robert Kennedy
The assassin of MLK Jr. was named…
James Earl Ray
The Civil Rights Act of 1968 did what?
Banned discrimination in housing
The Kerner Commission blamed African American rioting on…
White racism
What is the name for someone who rode buses in the south to try and make sure southerners
subscribed to the laws on integration
Freedom riders
MLK Jr. debuted on the national stage with his help with this
event.
Montgomery Bus Boycott
“SNCC” stands for
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
MLK JR. headed an organization called
__________, which stood for ________________
SCLC, Southern Christian Leadership Conference
What man served as the Browns’ lawyer?
Thurgood Marshall
Put the following events in chronological order
Freedom Riders, Freedom Summer, Civil Rights Act of 1957
MLK Jr’s “I have a dream” speech was given in what city?
Washington D.C.
This individual coined the slogan “Black Power.”
Stokely Carmichael
The main goal of this political group was to fight police
brutality in the ghetto.
Black Panthers
This policy involves making special efforts to hire or enroll
groups that have suffered discrimination in the past.
Affirmative Action
This man led the voter project in Mississippi during the summer
of 1964.
Robert Moses
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 did what?
Prohibited discrimination because of race, religion, national origin and
gender.
The name of the hostile police chief in Birmingham was?
Bull Connor
Emmett Till was murdered in _________ (state) by the
husband and brother-in-law of ________.
Mississippi, Carolyn Bryant
The governor of Arkansas during the Little Rock School
Segregation crisis was named…
Governor Faubus
This girl was the most controversial of the “Little Rock
Nine.”
Minnie Jean Brown
Put the events in chronological order.
Little Rock, Emmett Till murder, Birmingham
Malcolm X’s shift from a believer in the use of violence to the use of vote after his split from the Black Muslims can be described in this
phrase.
“Ballots or bullets”