History Chapter 27 Test Terms
The first of the confrontations on the Edmund Pettus Bridge during the march on Selma became known as
"Bloody Sunday"
the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) was organized by
African American clergymen
How was de facto segregation exhibited in the North?
African Americans were denied housing in many neighborhoods
case that overturned Plessy v. Ferguson
Brown v. Board of Education
the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party was organized to send delegates to the
Democratic National Convention
a massive 1964 effort to register African American voters in Mississippi
Freedom Summer
How did the Voting Rights Act of 1965 limit states' rights?
It empowered federal officials with overseeing voting registration and elections
What is an argument that people used to prevent affirmative action?
It would violate the goal of creating a colorblind society
helped NAACP win desegregation case against "Ole Miss"
James Meredith
attempted to determine the causes of the 1967 riots
Kerner Commission
To which city did President Eisenhower send federal troops to protect African American students?
Little Rock, Arkansas
best-know African American radical activist
Martin Luther King
Which civil rights organization won a number of important court cases against segregation in the 1950s?
NAACP
While in prison, Malcolm X became a convert to
The Nation of Islam
What were Jim Crow laws?
They were laws that enforced the strict separation of the races
African American attorney who led a legal challenge against segregation
Thurgood Marshall
At what school was there major rioting over James Meredith's enrollment?
University of Mississippi
banned literacy tests for voter registration
Voting Rights Act of 1965
After watching television coverage of the brutal tactics used against protesters by the Brimingham Police, even opponents of the civil rights movement were
appalled by the police violence
Following the issuance of the Kerner Commission's findings, a number of conservative commentators
argued against expanding federal spending for minorities
term coined by SNCC leader Stokely Carmichael
black power
participants in the 1963 March on Washington hoped to
convince Congress to pas civil rights legislation
racial separation imposed by law
de jure segregation
all of the following resulted from the civil rights movement except
eliminating poverty in the United States
in 1957, Eisenhower used the Arkansas National Guard to
enforce school integration
bus trip staged by CORE to defy segregationist codes
freedom ride
the Montgomery bus boycott introduced a new generation of African American
leaders
SNCC was formed to enable students to
make their own decisions about priorities and tactics
When three civil rights workers disappeared during Freedom Summer, the SNCC claimed that they had been
murdered
the Congress of Racial Equality pursued its goals through
peaceful confrontation
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 forbids discrimination in employment on the basis of
race
What happened in hundreds of cities immediately after the assassination of Martin Luther King?
riots broke out
In the 1920s and 1930s, the NAACP had success in challenging
segregation laws
the black power movement taught that African Americans should
separate from white society and lead their own communities
the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education ended
the "separate but equal" doctrine
President Truman ordered an end to discrimination in
the armed forces
Which of the following was a result of the civil rights movement?
thousands of African Americans could vote for the first time
What was the goal of the Selma March?
to get voting rights legislation passed
What did Malcolm X encourage African Americans to do?
to separate themselves from white society
Freedom Summer and the Selma March both called attention to African Americans' lack of
voting rights
