Civil Rights: Chapter 29 Bookwork

Directions: Use your textbook, beginning on pg. 904 to answer the following questions on separate notebook paper.

1. What was the Plessy vs. Ferguson case ruling?

2. What did many African Americans do after the civil war to avoid racism?

3. Did it work?

4. What was Apartheid?

5. About how many African Americans served in the armed forces during WWII?

6. What were Jim Crow laws?

7. What does the abbreviation NAACP stand for?

8. Who was Thurgood Marshall?

9. What was the ruling in Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka?

10. What was the ruling in Brown II?

11. Who were the “little rock nine”?

12. What was Eisenhower’s reaction to the Little Rock Crisis?

13. Who was Jo Ann Robinson?

14. Who was Rosa Parks?

15. Who was Martin Luther King Jr?

16. What does the abbreviation SCLC stand for?

17. What does the abbreviation SNCC stand for?

18. What were sit-ins?

19. How did store managers try to discourage sit-ins?

The Triumphs of a Crusade:

20. Who were the freedom riders?

21. Who was the director of CORE?

22. What school did James Meredith enroll in?

23. What was the title of the letter that Martin Luther King Jr. wrote to white religious leaders?

24. What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 do?

25. What was Freedom Summer?

26. Who was Fannie Lou Hamer?

27. What was captured by TV cameras in Selma?

28. What did the Voting Rights Act of 1965 do?

Challenges and Changes in the Moment:

29. How did civil rights groups begin to differ in 1965?

30. What is de facto segregation?

31. What is de jure segregation?

32. Where did one of the worse race riots in the Nation’s history take place?

33. Who was Malcolm X?

34. What was the “Nation of Islam”?

35. How did Malcolm X’s ideas change after his trip to Mecca?

36. Who was Stokely Carmichael?

37. Who founded the Black Panthers?

38. Who killed Martin Luther King Jr?


39. What was the Kerner Commision?

40. What was affirmative action?