Modern Civil Rights Movement Review

Part 1: Matching. Using the Word Bank, indicate which term is being described below.

Word Bank

  1. Adults
  2. Albany
  3. Birmingham
  4. boycott
  5. Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka, KA
  6. Civil Rights Act
  7. Dwight D. Eisenhower
  8. Emmitt Till
  9. Eugene “Bull” Connor
  10. George Wallace
  11. John F. Kennedy
  12. Little Rock
  13. Lyndon B. Johnson.
  14. Malcolm X
  15. Medgar Evers
  16. Mississippi
  17. Orval Faubus
  18. Plessy v. Ferguson
  19. Rosa Parks
  20. sit-in
  21. Students
  22. vote
  23. Voting Rights Act

  1. After passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964 the focus of the Civil Rights Movement became gaining the full right to _____

2.  Birmingham’s Commission of Public Safety, who unleashed dogs and hosed peaceful protestors, was _____

3.  Efforts to desegregate this southern city are considered a failure by many historians because the city remained segregated

4.  Freedom Summer called attention to African Americans’ lack of in voting rights which state?

5.  John Lewis and others were part of SNCC, which mainly attracted _____

6.  Martin Luther King headed SCLC, which mainly attracted _____

7.  The _____ movement was generally focused on desegregating businesses throughout major southern cities.

  1. The _____ of 1964 banned segregation and discrimination in public places and served as the first major national victory for the Civil Rights Movement
  2. The _____ of 1965 banned states from using the Literacy Test to discrimination against voters
  3. The 1954 Supreme Court case that ruled racially segregated schools were "inherently unequal" was _____
  4. The crisis in _____. AR arose when efforts were made to desegregate Central High School.

12.  The governor of Alabama who came to be the face of white southern resistance to integration was _____

13.  The governor of Arkansas during the Little Rock crisis was _____

  1. The most effective protest strategy in the Montgomery Bus protest of 1956 was the _____
  2. The violent events in _____ moved President Kennedy to take action for civil rights legislation
  3. The young boy whose grisly murder sparked protest and outrage in 1955 was _____
  4. Though Martin Luther King’s message of non-violent, direct action was embraced by southern blacks, many northern blacks were more attracted to the teachings of _____, who urged resistance to racism by “any means necessary”.
  5. Which person’s actions in December 1955 sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
  6. Which president took decisive, military action at Little Rock’s Central High School to force integration and enforce the law?

20.  Whose murder in Mississippi in 1963 inspired Freedom Summer?

Part 2: Put the following events in order using the timeline on the side. For each timeline entry, indicate the date and number. Be sure to space your events appropriately and to scale!

  1. Brown v. Board of Education rules that segregated public schools are unconstitutional
  2. Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, James Cheney, and Andrew Goodman are killed in Mississippi.
  3. Efforts to integrate Albany, GA fail as civil rights groups squabbled amongst each other
  4. Eisenhower orders the US Army to Little Rock to protect the black students and integrate Central High School.
  5. Emmitt Till murdered
  6. Freedom Summer begins as civil rights workers flock to Mississippi in an effort to register black voters.
  7. Governor Orval Faubus resists efforts to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas
  8. Jackie Robinson integrates Major League Baseball
  9. Kennedy is assassinated
  10. Martin Luther King, Jr., leads the Montgomery Bus Boycott
  11. MLK is assassinated
  12. President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act
  13. President Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act
  14. President Kennedy proposes a civil rights bill that will end segregation and discrimination
  15. President Truman orders the Armed Forces to desegregate
  16. Protestors try to march from Selma, AL to Montgomery, AL in an effort to push voting rights in that state—they are met by police swinging clubs
  17. Riots in Newark and Detroit lead to property destruction and death.
  18. Rosa Parks refuses to move from her seat on the bus in Montgomery, AL.
  19. Roughly 250,000 people converge on Washington, DC to show support for Kennedy’s civil rights bill.
  20. The “Sit in Movement” is born students in Greensboro, NC throughout the South take seats at a “white only” lunch counter. Spreads to other cities.
  21. The Black Panthers are formed in Oakland, CA signifying a radical turn for the Civil Rights Movement
  22. Violence in Birmingham, AL draws the nation’s attention to the civil rights struggle
  23. World War II ends