Statistics for Civil rights movement

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
African American's migrated north because of what laws	Jim crow	92%
separation by unwritten custom/tradition or by social conditions such as poverty	De facto segregation	73%
separation created by law	De jure segregation	65%
what form of segregation was ended	De jure segregation	65%
1942 formation: bring change through peaceful demonstration	CORE	54%
browns first name	Linda	54%
first AA supreme court justice	Thurgood Marshall	54%
MLKs most famous speech	i have a dream	50%
the NAACP was ___ (mixing racees)	interracial	50%
who founded the NAACP	W.E.B. Dubois	50%
the____ bus boycotts	Montgomery	46%
tow that resistance to 9 Af. Amer. stud. integration in Central High	Little Rock	42%
overturn Plessy v. Ferguson: sep. but equal	NAACP	42%
1911 formation: helped people move to major cities & get settled	Nat’l Urban League	42%
who denied to give up her seat to a white person twice	rosa parks	42%
90 Southern Congress members opposing Brown decision	Southern Manifesto:	42%
increased AA govt workers (CORE)	the new deal	42%
_____sent fed. troops to protect students	Eisenhower	38%
who forced Federal Transportation Commission to ban segregation on all interstate transportation.	JFK	38%
what day was Brown v. Brd. of Ed. overturned	May 17, 1954	38%
popular form of protest where participants sit and refuse to move	sit in	38%
The riots and harsh abuse however was watched by the nation on	TV	38%
what year did Malcolm X get assassinated in	1965	35%
____ is beautiful	black	35%
1961 CORE & SNCC tested South’s response Sup. Crt. ruling against bus segregation	Freedom rides	35%
viewed white society oppressive, called for black separation.	Malcolm X	35%
field director of NAACP gunned down outside his home in Miss.	Medgar Evers	35%
resulted in ___ in streets	riots	35%
MLK jr started	SCLC	35%
1960 student organ. sought immediate change	SNCC	35%
what Amdt. banned poll tax	24	31%
when taken to court, governor ____ blocked the hallway	Barnett	31%
poverty rates of AA (increased or decreased)	decreased	31%
Power flows from the barrel of a	gun	31%
income and graduation of AA(increased or decreased)	increased	31%
(Aug. 1963) 200,000 to support JFK's bill	march on Washington	31%
SNCC speaker & innovator	Robert Moses	31%
fight with your fists not your	words	31%
establish Civil Rights Commission	1957 Civil Rights Act	27%
Rev. Shuttlesworth and MLK Jr. joined to desegregate this city.	Birmingham	27%
MLK Jr. assassinated in Tenn. by	James Earl Ray	27%
_____ applied to all-white U. of Miss., rejected	James Meredith	27%
Martin Luther King Jr.: addressed Montgomery calling for nonviolent protest	MIA meeting	27%
assassinated after Pres. Primary victory speech in Calif.	RFK	27%
policies favoring a group (usually minorities) to counter the effects of a history of discrimination	Affirmative action	23%
belief of sep. identify & racial unity of Af. Amer. Community.	Black Nationalism	23%
the 64 act Banned discrim. on bases of sex, race, religion or nat’l origin in jobs/unions which created	EEOC	23%
Allowed holding__ funding	federal	23%
1964 civil rights groups (MFDP) organized voter registration drive in Miss. (3 dead)	Freedom Summer	23%
the man above was apart of the nation of	Islam	23%
Malcolm's opinion changed after his pilgrimage to	Mecca	23%
Rosa parks husbands name	Raymond	23%
this doctrine was overturned	separate but equal	23%
“We Shall Overcome” became	we shall overrun	23%
Johnson moved legislation along in this act	1964 Civil Rights Act	19%
governor wo called in the national guard to block them	Orval Faubus	19%
created Black Panthers.: militant	Bobby Seale	15%
MLK & other leaders led a protest march against arrests of those who tried to vote: nat’lly televised	Selma March	15%
Black Power mvt.: led by ____ SNCC member tired of peaceful demonstrations.	Stokely Carmichael	15%
reduced barriers preventing Af. Amer. voting by incr. fed. control over voting registration.	1965 Voting Rights Act	12%
created Black Panthers.: militant	Huey Newton	12%
created to determine cause for riots	Kerner Commission	12%
writer: damaging effects of segregation (The Fire Next Time)	James Baldwin	8%