Civil Rights

Answer the following questions from the lesson read in class on Tuesday; they provide part of your review before taking the chapter 36 test.  After completing them and also after reviewing the lesson on Kennedy, you may take the test.

1) What was the separtion between whites and blacks in the American South called?
2) What were these type of laws called?
3) What were the protests against these laws called?
4) What were two problems that blacks had in Clarendon County, S.C.?
5) Who appoints a federal judge?
6) What did three lawyers argue, on May 28, 1951, in front of federal judges?
7) Did the lawyers succeed?
8) What was the name of the next school segragation case?
9) What U.S. court heard the case?
10) What did that court decide?
11) What did Rosa Parks do on December 1, 1955?
12) What did the blacks of Montgomery, Alabama decide to do in order to protest segragation on buses?
13) Who was the minister asked to head up the boycott?
14) What else did the protesters do?
15) What leader did Martin Luther King, Jr. admire?
16) When the Supreme Cout told schools to "integrate," what were they telling the schools to do?
17) Did the Supreme Court give the schools a deadline for opening their classrooms to both whites and blacks?
18) How did some schools use this to avoid integration?
19) What was "massive resistance"?
20) What did the governor of Arkansas do to keep Elizabeth Eckford and her friends from attending school?
21) What did the president of the United States do, when he heard aobut the governor's actions?
22) What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 say?
23) What did the Voting Rights Act of 1965 say?
24) What happened to Martin Luther King, Jr.?