Civil Rights Movement

What Supreme Court decision declared that the separation of blacks and whites was legal as long as the societies were equal?

• Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
• Roe v. Wade
• Plessy v. Fergusson
• Marbury v. Madison

Which of the following court cases from 1954 ruled that segregation in public schools was illegal?

• Brown vs. Board of Education 
• Plessy vs. Fergusson
• Marbury vs. Madison
• Roe vs. Wade

What was the goal of the freedom riders?

•  To help protestors escape police
• To protest and end segregation on interstate transportation 
• To provide privately owned buses during the Montgomery bus boycott
• To transport African Americans to places with less strict segregation laws

 Minority students in public schools were given constitutional guarantees to equal educational opportunities as a result of the

• decision in Plessy v. Ferguson
• ratification of the 19th amendment
• ratification of the 26th amendment
• decision in Brown v. Board of Education

What is one direct consequence of the U.S. civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s?

• the right to freedom of religion for all citizens
• the granting of citizenship to African-Americans
• the end of legal segregation in public places
• the passing of legislation to protect the accused

Which of the following was a method used by state governments to prevent African Americans from voting?

• the 10% plan
• the Wade-Davis Bill
• the Freedmen's Bureau
• Literacy Tests

Which example explains how Poll Taxes prevented African Americans from voting.

• If you could not read you could not vote.
• If your family was able to vote before the Civil War, you could vote too.
• Prevented poor blacks from voting.
• Prevented rich blacks from voting.

Which piece of legislation banned literacy tests as a prerequisite for voting? 

• The Civil Rights Act of 1957
• The Civil Rights Act of 1964
• The Voting Rights Act of 1965
• The 27th Amendment

Which method did MLK urge his followers to use to achieve justice and racial equality?

• demanding that Congress pay reparations to African Americans
• leaving any community in which racism is practiced
• engaging in nonviolent civil disobedience
• using violence to bring about change