Chapter 21 Sections 1, 2, 3
Name 2 problems African Americans in the North Faced.
1. De facto segregation - custom 2. De Jure segregation - law
In what 3 ways did World War II help set the stage for he modern civil rights movement?
1. Desegregated military troops 2. No discrimination in job defense 3. All jobs in economy opened because whites went to war
Name 2 ways in which World War II helped set the stage for the civil rights movement
1. Desegregating of armed forces 2. More jobs for Africans 3. Executive orders
Name 2 people from whom Martin Luther King, Jr drew his ideas.
1. Henry David Thoreau 2. Mohandas Ghandi 3. A. Philip Randolph 4. Jesus
Name 2 of the nation's leaders killed in 1968.
1. MLK jr - 1968 2. Robert Kennedy 1964
Name 2 states where civil rights workers tried to register blacks to vote.
1. Mississippi 2. Alabama
What gains were made by the civil rights and black power movements? Identify 4
1. No voting desegregation 2. No lunch counter desegregation 3. buses desegregation 4. Schools desegregation
Name 2 places that African Americans targeted for racial desegregation.
1. Schools 2. Buses
Name 2 new civil rights leaders
1. Stokely Carmichael 2. Malcom X
How did President Eisenhower respond to the Little Rock crisis?
101 airborn (sent troops)
What organization was formed to support Rosa Parks?
Bus Boycott (year long)
What role did the violence shown on TV play in this march?
Changed american opinions
Who attended the march?
Everyone
What was the SCLC's purpose?
Teach non - violent protest
What was significant about the Civil Rights Act of 1957? What did it accomplish?
Outlawed all segregation No discrimination
What was the goal of the march on Washington?
Wanted congress to pass civil rights legislations
The kerner commission blamed much of the rioting that plagued Northern cities during the mid - 1960's on...?
White racism
Rosa Parks
Woman who helped start Montgomery bus boycott
What did the Civil Rights Act of 1875 do?
end slavery
What did SNCC accomplish, and how?
sit-ins at lunch counters which desegregated lunch counters.
Name 2 ways the government tried to help the freedom riders.
1. 400 US Marshall 2. LCC
Name 2 things the Civil Rights Act of 1964 did.
1. Can't discriminate on RRNG 2. Allow government desegregate
Civil Rights Act of 1968
Act that banned discrimination in housing
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Act that struck down state laws intended to keep blacks from voting
Malcom X
African - American civil rights leader
Black Panthers
African - American group founded to combat police brutality
Thurgood Marshall
African - American lawyer who led the legal challenge against segregation
James Meredith
African American who won enrollment to the all - white University of Mississippi
What changes took place in Stokely Carmichael Membership in civil rights organizations?
Black power -- all about pride and leadership
Freedom Riders
Civil rights activists who tried to end segregation on national buses
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
Civil rights organization
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Civil rights organization formed by students
Who volunteered for the project?
College students
Kerner Commission
Commission that reported on race relations in America
What is the main difference between de facto and de jure segregation?
De facto - Customs De jure - law
What was the goal of the freedom riders?
Desegregate bus stations and waiting rooms
What did the Supreme Court rule about separate schools for white and blacks?
Desegregated schools
How did the early views of Malcom X differ from his later ideas?
Force -- Peace
Nation of Islam
Group headed by Elijah Muhammad
Name 1 goal the cilvil rights movement achieved and 1 problem that remained
It helped africans gain full voting rights but whites continued to flee the cities
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Law that outlawed racial discrimination
Stokely Carmichael
Leader of black power movement
Martin Luther King, Jr
Leader of the civil rights movement
What did the voting rights act outlaw?
Literacy test
Who was the president of SCLC?
MLK jr
The civil rights leader who preached that blacks should separate from white society was...?
Malcom X
The nation experienced the worst urban rioting in its history in the days following in assassination of...?
Martin Luther King Jr
Black Power
Movement that stressed black pride
Freedom Summer
Name of project to win voting rights for Southern blacks
How did the sit - in demonstrations throughout the South reflect King's approach?
Never fought back
What was the outcome of the demonstrations in Birmingham?
New civil rights laws
What did the bus boycott do?
Non - violent protest buses desegregation
What did the march encourage President Johnson to do?
Pass civil rights amendment
What was Martin Luther King Jr's approach to battling racial justice?
Peaceful resistance Civil disobedience
How were the Supreme Court cases Plessy V. Ferguson and Brown v. Board of Education of topeka related?
Plessy v. Ferguson - Separate but equal Brown v. Board of Education - desegregated schools
Affirmative Action
Program aimed at hiring or including minorities
Fannie Lou Hamer
Prominent voting rights activist
Sit - in
Protest tactic in which blacks occupied whites-only seats at lunch counters.
What did the law accomplish?
Register to vote
How did the Montgomery Bus Boycott begin? What effect did it have?
Rosa parks wouldn't give up her seat. Bus boycott
How did the ideas of SNCC differ from those of the Nation of Islam?
SNCC - Peace Nation of islam - force
How did the ideas of SNCC differ from those of the Black Panthers?
SNCC - Peaceful protesters Black Panthers - used force
Chapter 21
Section 1
Chapter 21
Section 2
Chapter 21
Section 3
De facto segregation
Segregation by custom or practice
De Jure segregation
Segregation by law
How did the court rule in Plessy?
Separate but equal
What did the Brown ruling declare?
Separate is inherently unequal (desegregation)
Occurrence - Freedom Riders
Significance - Desegregated waiting rooms
Occurrence - March on Birmingham
Significance - desegregated the city of Birmingham
Occurrence - March on selma
Significance - exposed violence on tv
Occurrence - 24th Amendment
Significance - got rid of poll tax
Occurrence - Civil Rights Act of 1964
Significance - no housing desegregation
Occurrence - Voting Rights Act of 1965
Significance - registering african americans to vote
Brown V. Board of Education
Supreme Court case in which segregated schools were ruled unconstitutional
Civil rights leaders criticized the fact that much of the money for President Johnson's war on poverty had been redirected to help fund...?
The Vietnam war
Who argued Brown's case?
Thurgood Marshall
What was the Kennedy administrations response?
To desegregate
The civil rights act of 1968 ended discrimination in...?
housing
What was the goal of the Freedom Summer project?
registure to vote