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Column I Column II
1. attempted to determine the causes a. Freedom Summer
of the 1967 riots b. Thurgood Marshall
2. term first used by SNCC leader c. Brown v. Board of Education
Stokley Carmichael d. Martin Luther King
3. radical African American activist e. de jure segregation
killed in 1965 f. Voting Rights Act
4. racial separation imposed by law g. Kerner Commission
5. a massive 1964 effort to register African h. Malcolm X
American voters in Mississippi i. black power
6. bus trip staged by CORE to defy j. Montgomery bus boycott
segregationist codes k. freedom ride
7. banned literacy tests for voter registration l. James Meredith
8. African American who enrolled at
Ole Miss
9. case that overturned Plessy v. Ferguson
10. NAACP attorney who led a
legal challenge against segregation
B. Key Concepts
Directions: Write the letter of the correct answer in each blank. (4 points each)
11. Which of these African Americans is famous for breaking into major
league baseball?
a. Jackie Robinson c. Thurgood Marshall
b. Ralph Abernathy d. Bobby Seele
12. What was the significance of Hernandez v. Texas?
a. It affirmed the doctrine of separate but equal.
b. It organized national White Citizens Councils.
c. It overturned Brown II.
d. It extended Fourteenth Amendment protections to Mexican Americans.
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16. In the excerpt above, what two specific activities are protected from
discrimination?
a. voting and housing c. housing and employment
b. employment and housing d. voting and employment
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18. When three civil rights workers disappeared during Freedom Summer,
the SNCC claimed that they had been
a. arrested. c. kidnapped.
b. murdered. d. relocated.
20. What civil rights measure was passed by Congress shortly after Kings
assassination?
a. the Fair Housing Act
b. the Twenty-Fourth Amendment
c. the Civil Rights Act of 1957
d. the Voting Rights Act of 1965
C. Document-Based Assessment
Directions: Use the excerpts from the Fair Housing Act of 1968 to answer the question that
follows on a separate sheet of paper. (10 points)
21. Analyze Primary Sources Explain how this section of the Fair Housing Act deals
with discrimination.
D. Critical Thinking
Directions: Answer the following questions on a separate sheet of paper. (10 points each)
22. Analyze Cause and Effect What was the effect of the civil rights decisions of the
Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren? Who was affected?
23. Synthesize Information According to Thurgood Marshall, why was affirmative
action necessary?
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