U.S. History IICivil Rights Movement
CHAPTER 28 REVIEW
1. ______ : leader of SCLC, an alliance of church-based African American organizations
dedicated to ending discrimination.
2. ______ Association of student activists from throughout the South.
3 ______: Type of protest led by the SNCC which was successful in integrating many
southern restaurants.
4. ______: With the success of the Montgomery
Bus Boycott, the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) expanded into this organization.
5. ______: Type of protest supported by the SCLC.
6. ______; He believed in methods of nonviolent resistance learned from Gandhi.
7. ______: This group took bus trips through the South to draw
attention to the violations of the Supreme Court ruling that segregation in facilities that served interstate travelers
was illegal.
8. ______: Blamed the Freedom Riders for the violence that broke out in
Birmingham, Alabama, and therefore sent no police officers to the bus terminal.
8b. ______dedicated to practicing nonviolent protests(organization)
9. ______: The student who entered the University of Mississippi, over the protests of
Governor Ross Barnett who tried to prevent him from registering.
10______: He suggested using schoolchildren to protest when the
Birmingham protests seemed likely to end in failure as adults declined as they were unwilling to go to jail
11. ______: Speech delivered by Martin L.King at the March on Washington which
is one of the most famous speeches in U. S. History. (1963)
11b. ______lawyer working on Brown v. Board of Education.
12. ______: Banned discrimination in employment on the basis of race, color,
religion, sex, or national origin.
______: They debated 75 days before passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
13. ______: Worked hard in 1963-64 to have a civil rights bill passed.
14. ______: Director of the March on Washington.
15, _______: NAACP field secretary assassinated in 1963.
16. ______: In regards to voter registration, he stated that “If we can crack Mississippi,, we will
likely be able to crack the system in the rest of the country”.
17. ______: Banned the payment of poll taxes as a condition for voting in federal
elections.
18. ______: a plan which brought white volunteers into the voter registration effort.
19. ______: CORE worker murdered in his fight to register African Americans to vote.
20. ______: The passage of this put the voter registration process under
federal control.
21. ______: The leader of the Nation of Islam in the 1930’s.
22. ______: At first he championed African american separatism, he left the Nation of
Islam and converted to orthodox Islam and now called for unity among all people.
23. ______: This organization was created by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale
calling for bread, land, housing, education, clothing, justice and pace for African Americans.
24. ______: Assassinated by a sniper, James Earl Ray,, on April 4, 1968.
25. ______: Constructed ResurrectionCity in WashingtonD.C. to protest poverty among
African Americans.
26. ______: The SNCC did not want to unite with the Black Panther Party because of their
support of this.
27. ______: Supreme Court decision limiting the use of busing as a means to
achieve racial integration.
28. ______: Gave preference to ethnic minorities and women in admission and hiring.
29. ______: Shot and killed Medgar Evers outside his home in 1093.
30. ______: The first African American to be elected mayor of a major U.S. City, Cleveland
31.______: This made it a Federal offense to prevent any qualified person from voting.
32. ______: Supreme Court case striking down the quota
system in regards to university admission.
33/ ______was the way in which Black Power was expressed in this way in
The 1970’s and 1980.
34. ______was most difficult state to register African Americans to vote.
35. ______assassinated MLK.
36. ______used the courts to attack racism.
37.______saw voter registration as the way to bring change.
38.______delegation at the 1964 Democratic National Convention wanted to replace
the existing delegates with their own.
39. ______common goal of the sit-in-movement.
40.______formed the Poor’s People Campaign as he felt poverty affected people from
Gaining true equality, turned out to be a failure.
41.______led to decline of the Civil Rights Movement in 1960s.
42. ______disallowed for discrimination against certain groups – such as
Applying for jobs, colleges, etc.
43. ______is to exist through culture, habit, not law.
44.______offered African American students help with academics and taught them about
Black history.
45. ______legalized segregation