Civil Rights Review

Sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott by refusing to give up a seat in the front of the bus to a white man.

• Martin Luther King Jr
• James Meredith
• Medgar Evers
• Rosa Parks

Members of SNCC used this method of protest to integrate lunch counters in the south:

• Sit-ins
• Marches
• Riots
• Freedom Rides

These are guaranteed to citizens by the Constitution and laws of the nation

• Civil Rights
• Equality
• Civil Disobedience
• Idealism

Refusing to obey laws peacefully you believe are unjust (Method advocated by MLK Jr.)

• Civil Rights
• Passive Resisitance
• Segregation
• Idealism

What Supreme Court allowed for "separate but equal"?

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

Which of the following people was murdered and displayed in an open casket and was a spark for the modern Civil Rights Movement?

• Thurgood Marshall
• Homer Plessy
• Rosa Parks
• Emmett Till

The brutality against blacks in Birmingham prompted Kennedy to

• propose a strong civil rights bill
• propose a jobs bill for African Americans in downtown Birmingham
• pressure Birmingham to remove "Bull" Connor as acting police commissioner
• release Martin Luther King from jail

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 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 major topic of the Selma march was which of the following?

• lunch counters
• popular sovereignty
• desegregation
• voting