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5 5 5 5 5 Freedom Summer for 1

Question: What was the movements objective with Freedom Summer?

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Answer: To establish Freedom Schools, To attempt to register black voters, To bring attention to injustices in Mississippi.

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Question: Who’s death results in Freedom Summer?

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Answer: Medgar Evers

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Question: Cite several examples which demonstrate that Mississippi was a place with a brutal record of racial dominance.

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Answer: Emit Till, Medgar Evers, James Meredith and rioting at Ole Miss.

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Question:Until 1964 why had Mississippi been bypassed by the Civil Rights Movement?

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Answer:Too removed, too rural, too simmering with hatred to offer the slightest bit of hope. Too Dangerous.

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Question: Identify the names of the Civil Rights workers murdered during Freedom Summer.

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Answer: Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney.

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Question: Identify (and be able to explain) several obstacles for black voters in the South.

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Answer: Literacy Tests, Poll Tax, Grandfather Clause, Terror

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Question: What piece of legislation removed the Poll Tax?

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Answer: The Twenty Fourth Amendment

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Question: What Civil Rights protest did the most to ultimately promote the right to vote for African Americans?

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Answer: The Selma to Montgomery Marches

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Question: What law signed by Johnson finally guaranteed the right to vote for African Americans?

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Answer: The Voting Rights Act of 1965

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Answer: The Civil Rights Act of 1964

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Question: Identify to governmental figures that attempted to prevent the movement from reaching its goals in Selma.

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Answer: George Wallace – Gov of Alabama, Jim Clark – Sherrif of Selma

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Question:The death of what Civil Rights martyr prompted the decision to march from Selma to Montgomery?

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Answer: Jimmie Lee Jackson

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Question:What was the name of the first attempt to march from Selma to Montgomery? How did this produce such huge results for the movement?

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Answer: Bloody Sunday. The media coverage of the event brought major attention to the situation.

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Question: What was the historical impact of the Selma to Montgomery effort?

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Answer: It drastically shifted public opinion regarding the civil rights movement.

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Question: Identify 3 martys associated with the Selma to Montgomery marches.

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Answer: Jimmie Lee Jackson, James Reeb, Viola Liuzzo

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Question: Define Black Nationalism.

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Answer: Advocated separation from white society. Black communities governed by black leaders, pride in racial heritage.

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Question: Identify 3 black nationalist organizations/leaders

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Answer: Malcom X (pre pilgrimage), Marcus Garvey, BPP, Nation of Islam, Elijah Muhammad, Huey Newton

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Question: In what two ways did Stokley Carmichael change SNCC?

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Answer: Made it more militant, rejected white participation.

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Question: Identify 3 positive contributions made by the BPP to their communities.

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Answer: Free Breakfast program, protection, free legal advice, health screening programs.

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Question: What was the name of the BPP’s political platform? Give one example

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Answer: The Ten Point Program. That all Black men held in prison should be released.

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Question: In what three cities did the most intense rioting occur in the 1960’s?

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Answer: Watts, Detroit, Newark

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Question: Provide five reasons for the rioting.

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Answer: Assassinations of X and King, Police brutality, disc in housing, disc in education, job disc

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Question: When, where and by who was King killed?

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Answer: April 1968, Memphis, James Earl Ray

Back to the Game Board Other for 4 Question: Identify 3 lasting effects of the Civil Rights Movement.

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Answer: Segregation is illegal. African Americans can now vote. African Americans are elected to office. Back to the Game Board Other for 5

Question: Identify four Civil Rights figures that were assassinated in the 60’s in their proper order.

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Answer: JFK, Malcolm X, Dr. King, Robert Kennedy

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