Civil Rights Part 1

Multiple Choice

What was the result of the Brown v. Board of Education case?

• Segregation in public schools became illegal
• African-Americans began playing profession sports
• Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus
• MLK led a March on Washington

Multiple Choice

What was the purpose of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

• It made Jim Crow Laws illegal
• It allowed African-Americans to run for political office
• It ended segregation in school
• It made poll taxes illegal

Multiple Choice

Which of the following best describes the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

• Segregation on buses became illegal after a couple of days of boycotting
• Segregation on buses became illegal after months of boycotting
• African-Americans blocked the streets preventing buses from operating
• Martin Luther King was arrested for not giving up his seat

Multiple Choice

Where did they put him after they killed him

• A warehouse

• A Backyard

• A Lake

• A House

Multiple Choice

What was the name of the woman who accused Emmett Till of grabbing her hand?

• Carol Brannings

• Carolyn Bryant

• Christa Cummings

• Brynda Carroll

Multiple Choice

What is the purpose of the 24th Amendment?

• It ended slavery
• It ended segregation based on race
• It made poll taxes illegal
• It made it legal for Thurgood Marshall to be selected for the Supreme Court

Multiple Choice

What organization did W.E.B. Du Bois found?

• The Back to Africa Movement

• Tuskegee Institute

• NAACP

• Access for all movement

Multiple Choice

True or False? The Montgomery Bus Boycott was effective because most people who rode the bus were black, and the bus company lost too much money once people boycotted.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Where did Emmett Till die?

• Richmond

• Alabama

• Money, Mississippi

• New York City

Multiple Choice

which supreme court case ruled that separation is okay so long as it is equal? 

• Plessy V. Ferguson
• Dred Scott v. Sanford
• Marbury v. Madison
• Miranda v. Arizona

Multiple Choice

 An African American women who was asked to give up her seat on the bus to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama was

• Harriet B. Stowe
• Rosa Parks
• Michelle Obama
• Coretta King

Multiple Choice

What was one of the things that the March on Washington hoped to accomplish?

• The right to vote for women

• Stop the Vietnam War

• An end to segregation

• Abolish the Police

Multiple Choice

Around how many people attended the march?

• 1,000,000

• 250,000

• 50,000

• 10,000

Multiple Choice

Who was president during the March on Washington?

• Jimmy Carter

• Richard Nixon

• Harry Truman

• Dwight D. Eisenhower

• John F. Kennedy

Multiple Choice

What is the famous speech given by Martin Luther King, Jr. called today?

• Fourteen Points

• We Shall Overcome

• The Mountaintop Speech

• I have a Dream

• Cry the Beloved Country

Multiple Choice

What major law was passed around a year later as a result of the March on Washington?

• Washington Act

• Civil Rights Act

• Great March Act

• Social Security Act

Multiple Choice

How many Freedom Riders began the journey on May 4 1961?

• 11

• 12

• 13

• 14

Multiple Choice

What did Joseph Perkins attempt to do?

• Have his shoes shined at a whites-only shoeshine chair

• Go to a whites-only cinema

• Drink from a whites-only water tap

• Enter a whites-only entrance at a shop

Multiple Choice

What does King warn the Freedom Riders of?

• Bad weather

• A religious celebration that is coming up

• The petrol prices

• An impending attack

Multiple Choice

In the 1960s, black and white people couldn’t ride together on the bus, drink from the same fountains or go to the same schools. What was this separation called?

• compassion
• integration
• segregation
• determination

Multiple Choice

Ruby Bridges was the first black child to ________.

• integrate an all-white elementary school by herself
• visit the Supreme Court
• sit with white children on a bus
• skip first grade

Multiple Choice

What is it called when students of all colors can go to school together?

• segregation
• integration
• separation
• testing