Civil Rights

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

ruled that segregation was illegal and overturned Plessy v Furgeson's "seperate but equal"

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

Georgia governor who was previously a segregationist, but ended up hiring more African Americans to government positions than any other governor 

• Lester Maddox
• Andrew Young
• Maynard Jackson
• Herman Talmadge

The showdown in Little Rock, the sit-in movement, and the freedom rides showed that

• the federal government sided with the protesters
• most white southerners welcomed change and joined the protesters
• the civil rights movement had achieved its goals
• many white southerners resisted integration and used violence against protesters

What provided for "separate but equal"?

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

"Nurses: No person or corporation shall require any white female nurse to nurse in wards or rooms in hospitals, either public or private, in which negro men are placed. Alabama"
The above is an example of which of the following?

• Homer Plessy
• Dred Scott
• Thurgood Marshal
• Jim Crow

Which amendment abolished slavery?

• 16th
• 15th
• 14th
• 13th

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

• ACLU
• NAACP
• KKK
• Congress

In what year did the "Little Rock Nine" desegregate Central High School?

• 1896
• 1865
• 1957
• 1968