American History Second Semester Review: Civil Rights post WWII

What was NOT a result of the Civil Rights Movement?

• protected African American voting rights
• made segregation illegal
• eliminated poverty
• gave African Americans a new sense of ethnic pride

What was the main purpose of the Freedom Riders?

• desegregation of restaurants
• desegregation of interstate buses
• desegregation of schools
• desegregation of trains

Which court case stated that "separate but equal" was not constitutional? ( Think about Schools)

• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Korematsu v. United States
• Roe v. Wade

Which court case stated that it was ok for Blacks and Whites to be separate as long as they were "equal"?

• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Roe v. Wade
• Carter v. the State of Alabama

_____________ believed that Whites were the cause of the problems for Blacks and agreed with using physically violence when necessary.

• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Thurgood Marshall 
• Rosa Parks
• Malcolm X

What were the "Little Rock Nine" trying to do?

• Join a college in Mississippi
• Integrate the lunch counters in Little Rock
• Enroll in a High School that was segregated
• Keep Black students from enrolling in their all-white school

Dr. King said that "an unjust law is no law at all." What did he mean by this?

• That society was a survival of the fittest and we need to be strong
• That Jim Crow Laws are unfair, but hard to change
• That church and state need to be kept separate
• That if a law is wrong, it should not be followed

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 tried to ___________.

• limit the speech of African Americans
• desegregate the Air Force
• end racial and gender discrimination
• give immigrants a voice in Congress

___________ helped cause Congress and the President to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

• Freedom Summer
• Freedom Ride
• March on Washington
• Selma March

How did Whites in the South try to stop Blacks from voting?

• literacy tests and violence
• bribery and extortion 
• changing the day that people voted
• not telling them who was running for office