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