American Civil Rights Movement

What is a poll tax?

• Charging s/one to vote
• Taxing a survey
• Paying s/one to vote
• It's a made up term

He was the first person to land on the moon.

• John Glenn
• Yuri Gagarin
• Neil Armstrong
• Sputnik

What democrat entered the 1968 presidential race, but was shot and killed?

• Barry Goldwater
• Robert Kennedy
• Richard Nixon
• Lyndon Johnson

Who was arrested for refusing to give up their seat on a bus?

• Charlayne Hunter
• Harriet Tubman
• Rosa Parks
• Rebecca L. Felton

Father of the Civil Rights Movement, "I have a dream" speech at the March on Washington

• Lester Maddox
• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Andrew Young
• Benjamin Mays

New laws that required all public facilities to be integrated and prohibited discrimination of jobs based on race, color, or gender.

• Sibley Commission
• Albany Movement
• 1946 Governor's Race
• Civil Rights Act

ruled that segregation was illegal and overturned the court case Plessy v Furgeson's "seperate but equal" from 1896

• SNCC
• White Primary
• Civil Rights Act
• Brown v Board of Education

Which lawyer worked for the Brown family on the Brown v. Board of Education case?

• Rosa Parks
• James Farmer
• Jackie Robinson
• Thurgood Marshall

Brown v. Board of Education was famous because the court ruled that it is illegal

• allow children to work.
• to pay black people less than white people.
• to return a slave.
• to segregate public schools.

Outlawed racial discrimination *Got rid of "Jim Crow" laws *Racial segregation made illegal

• 19th Amendment
• Civil Rights Act of 1964
• 14th Amendment
• Montgomery Bus Boycott