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A10-Q

What were the laws that separated

people of different races in public

places in the South called?

A10-A

Jim Crow Laws

A20-Q

What was the 1869 amendment to the U.S. constitution that forbids any state to deny African

Americans the right to vote because of race

called?

A20-A

The Fifteenth Amendment

A30-Q

Name the 1869 court case in which the

Supreme Court ruled that segregation in public facilities was legal as long as the facilities were equal.

A30-A

Plessy versus Ferguson

A40-Q

What is the term whereby many businesses and universities adopted

programs that sought to hire and promote

minorities, women, and others who had faced

discrimination?

A40-A

Affirmative Action

A50-Q

What was the name of the court case that challenged the doctrine of “separate

but equal”?

A50-A

Brown versus

Board of Education of

Topeka

B10-Q

What is the word that means legal separation

of people based on racial, ethnic, or other

differences?

B10-A

Segregation

B20-Q

What word means to refuse

to buy or use certain goods or

services?

B20-A

Boycott

B30-Q

What are civil rights?

B30-A

The rights due to all citizens.

B40-Q

What is integration?

B40-A

The mixing of different racial or

ethnic groups.

B50-Q

What is the policy that denies equal rights to

certain groups of people called?

B50-A

Discrimination

C10-Q

Who was the first African-American to

pioneer the integration of professional athletics in America?

C10-A

Jackie Robinson

C20-Q

Who was the African-American who refused to give up her seat on the bus and inspired the Montgomery Bus

Boycott?

C20-A

Rosa Parks

C30-Q

Which President succeeded in getting the Civil Rights Act

of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of

1965 passed?

C30-A

Lyndon B. Johnson

C40-Q

Who was the nonviolent

spokesperson for the civil rights movement

and delivered the

“I Have a Dream” speech?

C40-A

Martin Luther King Jr.

C50-Q

Who was Thurgood Marshall?

C50-A

Lead counsel in Brown versus the Board of

Education in Topeka, Kansas and first

African-American to be appointed to the Supreme Court.

D10-Q

Who was Malcom X?

D10-A

Malcom X was one of the most outspoken and well-known African-American civil rights leaders in the 1960s.

D20-Q

Who was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who convinced his fellow justices that

the doctrine of “separate but equal”

should be overturned?

D20-A

Chief Justice Earl Warren

D30-Q

What does NAACP stand for?

D30-A

National Association for the Advancement

of Colored People.

D40-Q

What were the civil rights groups (black &

white) that road buses from town to

town to integrate bus terminals in the South

called?

D40-A

Freedom Riders

D50-Q

What did the nine black students who entered

Central H.S. in Little Rock, Arkansas under the protection of 1,000

members of the 101st Airborne Division of the

U.S. Army become known as?

D50-A

The

Little Rock Nine

E10-Q

What is the form of protest called where people sit and refuse

to leave?

E10-A

Sit-ins

E20-Q

What is

civil disobedience?

E20-A

Non-violent protests against unjust laws.

E30-Q

What were Southern laws called that severely limited the rights of African-Americans after theCivil War?

E30-A

Black codes

E40-Q

What is it called when someone believes that one race is superior to

another?

E40-A

Racism

E50-Q

What is the highest court in the United

States called?

E50-A

The Supreme Court