CRM

The Civil Rights Act of 1964

• desegragation of schools
• Great Society
• end of discrimination in hiring practices
• Sedition Act

Court Case that overturned the 1896 Separate but Equal case was

• Brown v. BOE ,1954
• Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896
• Plessy v. Ferguson, 1964

To achieve victory in the struggle for civil rights, Martin Luther King, Jr., and other members of the SCLC encouraged a policy of

• national strikes  
• armed confrontation
• lawsuits
• nonviolent protest

  The incident causing Martin Luther King to rise as a leader in the Civil Rights movement was

• Brown vs. BOE 
• Montgomery Bus boycott
• March on Washington
• Watts riots

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

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

The main goal of the freedom riders was to 

• pressure the federal government to enforce the law banning segregation on interstate buses
• inspire students to protest in Birmingham against Jim Crow
• encourage Congress to pass Kennedy's civil rights agenda
• desegregate urban bus systems in the south

Literacy tests & poll taxes were used in the South to keep African Americans from doing what?

• voting
• serving in the military
• moving north
• getting an education

Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in what sport?

• Baseball
• Football
• Basketball
• Hockey

Founded by W.E.B. duBois, it argued a number of civil rights cases including Brown v. Board of Education 

• NAACP
• CORE
• SNCC
• Black Panthers

Truman ordered the desegregation of this, known as Executive Order 9981?

• armed forces
• public schools
• public transportation
• automobile factories