Civil Rights

Who assassinated Martin Luther King?

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

 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.

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.

People who traveled in buses through the South to draw attention to segregation of bus station facilities.

• Black Power
• Freedom Riders
• Jackie Robinson
• NAACP 

A movement among African Americans that many critics believed was a call to violent action and that created a split in the civil rights movement.

• Black Power       
• Bloody Sunday
• sit-ins
• Nation of Islam

The Selma March is also known as ____. 

• Bloody Sunday
• Black Sunday
• Bloody Tuesday
• Black Tuesday

What court case stated, "We conclude that in the field of public education, the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherintly unequal."

• Plessy v. Ferguson 
• Brown v. Board of Education 
• Tinker v. Des Moines 
• Delgado v. Bastrop ISD

After Brown v. Board of Education, 9 AA students were admitted into a High School. The governor and state national guard stood in front of the doors stopping the admission. President Eisenhower sent federal troops to escort the students. Where did the event take place?

• Little Rock, Arkansas
• Montgomery, Alabama 
• Washington DC
• Del Rio, Texas