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Civil Rights Movement Study Guide (with answers)
What were some of the effects of segregation?
 Separate educational facilities and resources for white and African American
students
 Separate public facilities (e.g. restrooms, drinking fountains, restaurants)
 Social isolation of races
What Supreme Court case stated that segregation was okay if it was “separate but
equal”?
 Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
What Supreme Court case ordered the desegregation of schools?
 Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
What were some of the major methods used by the Civil Rights Movement?
 Organized protests
 Freedom Riders
 Sit-ins
 Marches
Who desegregated the armed forces?
 President Harry S Truman
Which leader refused to give up her seat on a bus for a white passenger and was arrested
and fined for it?
 Rosa Parks
What did the community do afterward to protest the arrest of the woman above?
 Montgomery Bus Boycott
Who believed equality for African Americans could be achieved through vocational (job)
training?
 Booker T. Washington
Who supported full and immediate social, civil and political rights for African
Americans?
 W.E.B. DuBois
Which organization was founded in 1909 and expanded during the Civil Rights
Movement to improve social and political rights for African Americans?
 NAACP
Which leader supported passive resistance and gave the famous “I have a dream…”
speech?
 Martin Luther King, Jr.
Which group of African American students was protected by the National Guard when
they attended a previously white-only school?
 Little Rock Nine
What is the name given for the group of protesters who rode Greyhound buses all
through the South to protest segregated travel?
 Freedom Riders
A group of college students in Greensboro, NC participated in what type of nonviolent
protest when they wanted to desegregate the lunch counter of Woolworth’s store?
 sit-in
The famous “I have a dream…” speech was given at which event?
 The March on Washington
What law abolished poll taxes and literacy taxes in order to improve voter equality?
 Voting Rights Act of 1965
What law restricted segregation of restaurants, hotels and other public facilities?
 Civil Rights Act of 1964
What disadvantages did women have in post-World War II society?
 Discrimination in hiring practices
 Lower wages than men for doing the same job
 Unequal opportunities in athletics and scholarships
Which organization was created to fight for equal rights for women in the workplace?
 NOW
What proposed Amendment failed to be ratified but focused on equal opportunities in
employment and created a wider range of options and advancement for women?
 Equal Rights Amendment
What law was created to get equal opportunities in athletics for women?
 Title IX
Suggestion: Take a look through your old Reconstruction era notes 