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Civil rights movement - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 119 times
- The average score is 15 of 63
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| African American's migrated north because of what laws | Jim crow | 79%
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| MLKs most famous speech | i have a dream | 56%
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| the____ bus boycotts | Montgomery | 46%
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| separation by unwritten custom/tradition or by social conditions such as poverty | De facto segregation | 42%
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| who denied to give up her seat to a white person twice | rosa parks | 42%
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| first AA supreme court justice | Thurgood Marshall | 40%
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| what year did Malcolm X get assassinated in | 1965 | 38%
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| ____ is beautiful | black | 38%
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| separation created by law | De jure segregation | 38%
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| what form of segregation was ended | De jure segregation | 38%
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| popular form of protest where participants sit and refuse to move | sit in | 38%
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| viewed white society oppressive, called for black separation. | Malcolm X | 37%
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| who founded the NAACP | W.E.B. Dubois | 33%
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| 1942 formation: bring change through peaceful demonstration | CORE | 31%
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| _____sent fed. troops to protect students | Eisenhower | 31%
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| poverty rates of AA (increased or decreased) | decreased | 29%
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| income and graduation of AA(increased or decreased) | increased | 29%
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| the man above was apart of the nation of | Islam | 29%
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| browns first name | Linda | 29%
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| tow that resistance to 9 Af. Amer. stud. integration in Central High | Little Rock | 29%
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| resulted in ___ in streets | riots | 29%
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| the NAACP was ___ (mixing racees) | interracial | 27%
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| overturn Plessy v. Ferguson: sep. but equal | NAACP | 27%
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| 1960 student organ. sought immediate change | SNCC | 27%
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| The riots and harsh abuse however was watched by the nation on | TV | 27%
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| Power flows from the barrel of a | gun | 25%
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| who forced Federal Transportation Commission to ban segregation on all interstate transportation. | JFK | 25%
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| (Aug. 1963) 200,000 to support JFK's bill | march on Washington | 25%
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| increased AA govt workers (CORE) | the new deal | 25%
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| field director of NAACP gunned down outside his home in Miss. | Medgar Evers | 23%
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| MLK jr started | SCLC | 23%
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| 90 Southern Congress members opposing Brown decision | Southern Manifesto: | 23%
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| what Amdt. banned poll tax | 24 | 21%
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| Malcolm's opinion changed after his pilgrimage to | Mecca | 21%
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| 1911 formation: helped people move to major cities & get settled | Nat’l Urban League | 21%
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| fight with your fists not your | words | 21%
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| 1961 CORE & SNCC tested South’s response Sup. Crt. ruling against bus segregation | Freedom rides | 19%
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| what day was Brown v. Brd. of Ed. overturned | May 17, 1954 | 19%
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| policies favoring a group
(usually minorities) to counter the effects
of a history of discrimination | Affirmative action | 17%
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| Rev. Shuttlesworth and MLK Jr. joined to desegregate this city. | Birmingham | 17%
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| establish Civil Rights Commission | 1957 Civil Rights Act | 15%
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| when taken to court, governor ____ blocked the hallway | Barnett | 15%
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| created Black Panthers.: militant | Huey Newton | 15%
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| MLK Jr. assassinated in Tenn. by | James Earl Ray | 15%
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| assassinated after Pres. Primary victory speech in Calif. | RFK | 15%
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| SNCC speaker & innovator | Robert Moses | 15%
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| this doctrine was overturned | separate but equal | 15%
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| Johnson moved legislation along in this act | 1964 Civil Rights Act | 13%
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| belief of sep. identify & racial unity of Af. Amer. Community. | Black Nationalism | 13%
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| created Black Panthers.: militant | Bobby Seale | 13%
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| Allowed holding__ funding | federal | 13%
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| 1964 civil rights groups
(MFDP) organized voter registration drive in
Miss. (3 dead) | Freedom Summer | 13%
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| _____ applied to all-white U. of Miss., rejected | James Meredith | 13%
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| Martin Luther King Jr.: addressed Montgomery calling for nonviolent protest | MIA meeting | 13%
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| “We Shall Overcome” became | we shall overrun | 13%
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| the 64 act Banned discrim. on bases of sex, race, religion or nat’l origin in jobs/unions which created | EEOC | 12%
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| governor wo called in the national guard to block them | Orval Faubus | 12%
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| Rosa parks husbands name | Raymond | 12%
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| Black Power mvt.: led by ____ SNCC member tired of peacefuldemonstrations. | Stokely Carmichael | 12%
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| MLK & other leaders led a
protest march against arrests of those who
tried to vote: nat’lly televised | Selma March | 10%
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| reduced barriers
preventing Af. Amer. voting by incr. fed.
control over voting registration. | 1965 Voting Rights Act | 8%
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| writer: damaging effects of segregation (The Fire Next Time) | James Baldwin | 6%
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| created to determine cause for riots | Kerner Commission | 6%
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