State Politics & Civil Rights Movement in GA SS8H11

What did the supporters of segregation do in Georgia to show their unhappiness with the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown vs. Board of Education?

• They assassinated Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

• They started a riot around the state capitol building.

• They added the Confederate battle flag to the state flag in 1956.

• They organized boycotts of businesses that were willing to serve everyone.

What Supreme Court decision was overturned by the 1954 case of Brown v Board of Education?

• Miranda v. Arizona

• Worcester v. Georgia

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  Plessy v. Ferguson

• Scot v. Stanford

What did the supporters of segregation do in Georgia to show their unhappiness with the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown vs. Board of Education?

• They assassinated Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

• 
  They started a riot around the state capitol building.

• 
  They added the Confederate battle emblem to the state flag in 1956.

• They organized boycotts of businesses that were willing to serve everyone.

• - Set up by Governor Vandiver

• - Held hearings around the state to study the problem of school integration

• - Recommended that integration take place slowly over an extended period of time

The phrases above describe which of the following?

• Sibley Commission

• March on Washington

• Congress on Racial Equality

• 
  National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

In Brown v. Board of Education, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that segregation laws violated the 

• Fourteenth Amendment.

• Civil Rights Act.

• 
  Fifteenth Amendment.

• 
  Voting Rights ACt of 1965.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. advocated bringing about social change through...

• democarcy.

• nonviolence

• 
  any means necessary.

• fuedalism

In what way does this photo demonstrate the principles and methods of SNCC & SCLC?

• 
  It focused only on major cities.

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  It is a form of non violent social protest.

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  It believed only women needed to participate.

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  It was focused only on major cities in Georgia.

What was an affect of the March on Washington?

• It led to the creation of the Sibley Commission.

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  It led to the president desegregating all schools and colleges.

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  It helped many of the march's leaders to win political campaigns.

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  It created momentum for the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. 

• - Founder and chairperson of SNCC

• - Speaker at the March on Washington

• -Leader of  the March in Selma Alabama that came to be known as Bloody Sunday

• - US Representative from Georgia from 1987 until his death in July 2020

Which Civil Rights leader is described by the phrases listed above?

• John Lewis

• 
  Rosa Parks

• 
  Andrew Young

• 
  Martin Luther King Jr.

Which of the following is a positive accomplishment of Lester Maddox during his time as governor?

• drawing major league sports teams to the state

• appointing many qualified African Americans to state boards

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  starting the lottery and the HOPE scholarship program for high school students

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  changing the state flag to remove the Confederate symbol replacing it with red & white stripes.