Civil Rights

Used non-violent, direct actions to end legal and social discrimination against African Americans, founded by MLK jr.

• NAACP
• SCLC
• CORE
• SNCC

Who was the lawyer that won the "Brown vs. Board" case and was later the first African American Supreme Court Justice?

• Earl Warren
• Thurgood Marshall
• Martin Luther King Jr.
• Jackie Robinson

Court case that created "Separate-but-equal" doctrine.

• Sweatt v. Painter
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Mendez v. Kirby ISD

Why was Jackie Robinson important to the Civil Right Movement?

• He refused to give up his seat to a white person on a bus
• He gave his famous speech "I have a Dream"
• He was the first African American supreme court justice
• He was the first African American to play in major league baseball

College students used ________ to protest against segregation in diners at lunch counters?

• Freedom Rides
• Death threats
• Sit-ins
• Speeches

College students used ________ to protest against segregation in diners at lunch counters?

• Freedom Rides
• Death threats
• Sit-ins
• Speeches

What was Martin Luther King Jr's. famous speech that he gave at the march on Washington in 1963?

• "Freedom or Death"
• "Why ye sit there and die"
• "I have a Dream"
• "Gettysburg Address"

How did the event described by Rosa Parks in this excerpt affect the Civil Rights Movement?

• It changed the way police arrested public protesters.
• It resulted in a bus boycott that lasted more than a year.
• It led to an increase in the number of registered voters in southern states.
• It prompted the government to station the National Guard in southern states.

Which of the following made it illegal to discriminate against hiring somebody for a job because of their race?

• Voting Rights Act of 1965
• Civil Rights Act of 1968
• Civil Rights Act of 1965
• Equal Pay Act

The freedom rides' strategy:

• To create a big protest.
• To test the federal government willingness to enforce their law in states who ignored it.
• To cause segregationists to be upset.
• To create hysteria.