VA Studies Week 26 Review | Baamboozle - Baamboozle

This act outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states.

Voting Rights Act

He fought for equal rights for migrant workers.

Cesar Chavez

Who gave the "I Have a Dream" speech?

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Who signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

President Lyndon B Johnson.

What are the laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States called?

Jim Crow laws.

What is the term for the kind of protests used by the civil rights movement, like marches and sit-ins?

What act made discrimination in housing illegal?

Civil Rights Act of 1968.

What is integration?

Mixing people by race after Brown v. Board of Education

Who spoke at the march on Washington?

Martin Luther King JR.

Give 2 examples of public places that were segregated by race:

Churches Schools Restaurants Water Fountains Busses Playgrounds

What was the goal of the civil rights movement?

To get equal rights and protections for African Americans.

What state is the city of Birmingham located in?

Alabama

This movement desegregated the bus system.

Montgomery Bus Boycott

She refused to give up her seat on the bus

Rosa Parks

What does segregate mean?

set apart from the rest or from each other; isolate or divide.

He was the lawyer who helped when the Brown vs. Board of Education.

Thurgood Marshall

What is an opinion based on little knowledge, usually unfavorable?

prejudice

Rights guaranteed by the Constiution are ____________ _______________.

civil rights

A period during the 1950s and '60s in which people worked together to change unfair laws and guarantee basic rights for everyone was called the _______________ _______________ _________________.

Civil Rights Movement

Unfair treatment of people because of race, religion or gender is called ____________________.

discrimination

The idea that people of different races would remain segregated but have equal rights is called _____________ ____ ___________.

separate but equal

Abolishment of racial segregation is called ___________________.

desegregation

Full equality of all races in the use of public facilities is called _______________.

integration

The huge fight against desegregation led by Harry F. Byrd Sr. was called _________________ ____________________.

Massive Resistance

The president who ordered the military to remain integrated after WWII was _______________________.

Harry Truman

The first African American fighter pilots were known as ______ _______________ ______________

the Tuskegee Airmen

Which of the following was not a way Martin Luther King Jr. believed could help African Americans get equal rights?

burning public buildings

marches

speeches

sit-ins

The Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education declared that these had to be desegregated.

schools

Harry F. Byrd Sr. was a ________________.

U.S. Senator

Which of the following is NOT mentioned in this week's paper as a place in Virginia where you can learn about the Civil Rights Movement?

the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

the Virginia Air and Space Museum

the Robert Russa Morton Museum

The Newsome House Museum

What are three ways in which people worked together to change unfair laws towards African Americans and other minorities?

They gave speeches, used boycotts and marched (or had sit-ins) in the streets

Before desegregation it was hard for African American children to get a good ________________.

education

When did schools start to desegregate?

the 1950s and 1960s

Which act outlawed the Jim Crow laws and when was it passed by Congress?

The Civil Rights Act of 1964

What man was a leader in the civil rights movement who inspired many Americans?

Martin Luther King Jr.

What law did Congress pass in 1965 that ended the poll tax?

the Voting Rights Act