CIVIL RIGHTS TEST 2017

Which lawyer worked with the NAACP on the Brown v. Board of Education case?

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

Which of the following organizations was dedicated to the practice of nonviolent protest?

•  KKK
• CORE
• .  the Black Panthers
• Nation of Islam

Who assassinated Martin Luther King?

• James Earl Ray
• Malcolm X
• Lee Harvey Oswald
• The Nation of Islam

What strategy did the NAACP adopt in its fight for civil rights?

• massive resistance
• attacking racism in the courts
• direct nonviolence
• sit-ins

 What was the common goal of the sit-in movement and the Freedom Rides?

• to seek legal remedies to inequality
• to end segregation in all public areas
• to end segregation in public schools
• to force segregation to respond violently

The Civil Rights Act of 1964

• banned discrimination in employment and public housing.
• abolished the poll tax and literacy tests.
• gave African Americans the right to vote.
• abolished slavery.

The ________ was the most important stimulus for social change in the early 1960s. 

• Supreme Court 
• House of Representatives 
• presidency 
• Senate 

Which of the following groups most likely issued this statement?

• the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
• the Nation of Islam
• the Black Panther Party
• the NAACP

In the Brown ruling, the Supreme Court declared that separate public education for African Americans.

• violated the right to equal protection under the law.
• was allowed in states that legally enforced segregation.
• was constitutional.
• was legal under the precedent set by the Plessy decision.

Who did the Southern Christian Leadership Conference elect as its first leader?

• Rosa Parks
• Jackie Robinson
• Martin Luther King Jr.
• Thurgood Marshall