Civil Rights Movement

Civil Rights Movement

By EDWARD MERRIAM

Multiple Choice

Which case provided the legal basis for segregated public schools in the South?

• Plessy v Ferguson

• Fletcher v Peck

• Dred Scott v Sandford

• Brown v Board of Ed.

Multiple Choice

Who was the Chief Justice of the court that issued the Brown decision?

• Marshall

• Warren

• Burger

• Roberts

Multiple Choice

Which of the following became the main symbol for those who favored segregation?

• the Confederate battle flag

• the Statue of Liberty

• the Constitution

• the Declaration of Independence

Multiple Choice

True or False: the civil rights era and the cold war both influenced each other.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Emmett Till's family moved from Mississippi to Chicago during the

• Harlem Renaissance

• Red Scare

• Great Migration

Multiple Choice

The men who murdered Emmett Till admitted to what they had done after the trial was over. They were protected from a 2nd trial by which amendment?

• 5th

• 6th

• 7th

• 8th

Multiple Choice

Which civil rights leader was motivated to act by news of the Emmett Till murder?

• Malcolm X

• Stokely Carmichael

• Medgar Evers

• Rosa Parks

Multiple Choice

Rosa Parks was a member of which organization in 1955?

• Southern Christian Leadership Conference

• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

• National Assoc. for the Advancement of Colored People

• Congress of Racial Equality

Multiple Choice

Who was selected to be the spokesperson of the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA- the group that ran the boycott)?

• Martin Luther King

• Rosa Parks

• Jo Ann Robinson

• Claudette Colvin

Multiple Choice

The creators of this comic book left Jo Ann Robinson out of the story and gave Rosa Parks a passive role because...

• ...they were liars who wanted to distort the truth

• ...they didn't want to make local white leaders angry

• ...they wanted to appeal directly to their intended audience: male church ministers

• ...they made the comic book years after the event and didn't know the facts

Multiple Choice

The segregation of city buses in Montgomery violated the 14th amendment because

• it denied African Americans equal protection of the law

• it placed on undo economic burden on African Americans

• it violated African Americans' freedom of expression

Multiple Choice

1956-1960 were "fallow" years (not much was happening) for the Civil Rights movement because of

• the intense backlash from Southern whites

• Civil Rights leaders' lack of unity

• lack of support from the federal government

• lack of interest on the part of most Southern blacks

Multiple Choice

How quickly did the Court order Southern public schools to integrate?

• by the end of the next school year

• by the end of the decade

• with all deliberate speed

• by the date agreed to a vote

Multiple Choice

The creator of the previous cartoon was commenting on

• the down side of integration

• the slow pace of integration

• the positive aspects of segregation

• the need for segregation

Multiple Choice

Since integration pits the federal government against Southern state governments it can be seen as an issue involving

• separation of powers

• federalism

• due process rights

• freedom of expression

Multiple Choice

The year 1960 saw a shift in the Civil Rights movement with the involvement of which new group?

• Protestant ministers

• college students

• the urban poor

• the white middle class