Civil Rights

Her actions inspired the ____________ 

• Montgomery Peace Protest
• Montgomery Segregation Stopper Society
• Montgomery Bus Boycott
• Montgomery Association of Bus Boycotters

What group funded the court challenges to segregation in the 1950s?

• ACLU
• NAACP
• KKK
• Congress

What was the name of the case that ended school segregation?

• Brown v. Board of Education
• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Marbury v. Madison
• Scott v. Sanford

Who led the bus boycott in which Rosa Parks was involved?

• Malcolm X
• Emmit Til
• Thurgood Marshall
• Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

In the 1954 trial of Brown v Board of Education, the US Supreme Court ruled that

• private schools should be controlled by the federal government
• issues of racial segregation should be decided by the states.
• racially segregated public schools are unconstitutional
• the "separate but equal" doctrine should be contnued

The Supreme Court decision in Plessy v Ferguson resulted in 

• literacy test for blacks throughout the deep south
• equal protection for all citizens regardless of race or sex
• schools integration to occur with all deliberate speed
• racial segregation in the south

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

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law by President

• Eisenhower
• Kennedy
• Johnson
• Nixon

Who boosted Black nationalism first urging blacks to use armed self-defense and later changing to peaceful means?

• Malcolm X
• Martin Luther King Jr.
• Medgar Evers
• Thurgood Marshall

Bringing separate groups together

• integration
• Looking at this will slow you down
• discrimination
• segregation