CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT STUDY GUIDE AND ACTUAL ANSWERS.
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Civil Rights Movement
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Civil Rights Movement
Poll tax - Answer a tax levied on every adult, without reference to income or resources.
Literacy test - Answer A literacy test, in the context of American political history from the 1890s to the 1960s, refers to state government practices of administering tests to prospective voters purport...
CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT STUDY GUIDE AND ACTUAL ANSWERS.
Poll tax - Answer a tax levied on every adult, without reference to income or resources.
Literacy test - Answer A literacy test, in the context of American political history from the 1890s to the 1960s, refers to state government practices of administering tests to prospective voters purportedly to test their literacy in order to vote.
KKK - Answer a secret organization inspired by the former, founded in 1915 and active in the southern and other parts of the U.S.
Civil disobedience - Answer the refusal to obey certain laws or governmental demands for the purpose of influencing legislation or government policy
Brown V. Board of education - Answer Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.
Emmett Till - Answer Emmett Louis Till was an African-American teenager who was murdered in Mississippi at the age of 14 after reportedly flirting with a white woman.
Montgomery Bus Boycott - Answer The Montgomery Bus Boycott, a seminal event in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama.
MLK JR. - Answer Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement.
Birmingham Demostrations - Answer In 1965 Shuttlesworth assisted Bevel, King, and the SCLC to lead the Selma to Montgomery marches, intended to increase voter registration among blacks. Selma and Bloody Sunday - Answer The three Selma to Montgomery marches in 1965 were part of the Voting Rights Movement underway in Selma, Alabama.
Voting Rights Act - Answer Voting Rights Act of 1965 definition. A law passed at the time of the civil rights movement. It eliminated various devices, such as literacy tests, that had traditionally been used to restrict voting by black people.
Thurgood Marshall - Answer Thurgood Marshall was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, serving from October 1967 until October 1991. Marshall was the Court's 96th justice and its first African-American justice.
Great Society - Answer a domestic program in the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson that instituted federally sponsored social welfare programs.
Cesar Chavez - Answer Cesar Chavez was an American farm worker, labor leader and civil rights activist, who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association.
Grandfather clause - Answer The Grandfather Clause was a statute enacted by many American southern
states in the wake of Reconstruction (1865-1877) that allowed potential white voters to circumvent literacy tests, poll taxes, and other tactics designed to disfranchise southern blacks.
Jim Crow Laws - Answer The Jim Crow laws were racial segregation state and local laws enacted after the Reconstruction period in Southern United States that continued in force until 1965 mandating de jure racial segregation in all public facilities in Southern U.S. states (of the former Confederacy), starting in 1890
SCLC - Answer The Southern Christian Leadership Conference is an African-American civil rights organization. SCLC, which is closely associated with its first president, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., had a large role in the American Civil Rights Movement.
Sit-in movement - Answer The sit-ins started on 1 February 1960, when four black students from North Carolina A&T College sat down at a Woolworth lunch counter in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina.
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