History Chapter 27 Test Terms

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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


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