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Ch. 19 Test Review: The Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968
Date_________Hour_______
A. Identifying Key Terms, People and Places
Albany Movement
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
Freedom Rides
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
Civil Rights Act of 1964
de facto segregation
Nation of Islam
Voting Rights Act of 1965
sit-in
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Black power
Civil Rights Act of 1964
De jure segregation
March on Washington
1. To achieve victory in the struggle for civil rights, Martin Luther King, Jr., and other members of the SCLS
encouraged what policy?
2. Why was the SNCC formed?
3. Why did Martin Luther King, Jr., targeted Birmingham, Alabama, for his demonstrations?
4. How did opponents of the civil rights movement feel after watching television coverage of the brutal tactics
used against protesters by the Birmingham police?
5. What did participants in the 1963 March on Washington hoped to accomplish?
6. What happened after Congress passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
7. What did the black power movement teach African Americans to do?
8. What did James Baldwin warned Americans in his writings?
9. How did the National Urban League help African Americans?
10. In what way were the SCLC and CORE alike?
11. In which state did Freedom Riders encounter violent resistance?
12. How did President Kennedy respond to the riot over James Meredith’s admission to the University of
Mississippi?
13. Which was a highlight of the March on Washington?
14. What was the goal of the Selma March?
15. What did Malcolm X encourage African Americans to do?
16. What were the results of the civil rights movement?