Civil Rights Movement

What constitutional amendment abolished the poll tax that was used to deter black voters from voting? 

• 5th amendment
• 12th amendment
• 13th amendment
• 24th amendment

African Americans refusing to use buses in a southern city, sparked by a woman who refused to give up her seat on the bus. This was a protest against segregation in the public transit (bus) system. 

• Montgomery Boycott
• March on Selma
• Freedom Summer
• The Little Rock Crisis

Supreme Court decision that approved or allowed racial segregation laws using "separate but equal" rule. 

• Citizens' United
• Dred Scott Case
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Plessy v. Ferguson

Name this iconic Civil Rights leader who led the Civil Rights movement using the ideas of non-violent civil disobedience. He was one of the leaders of the Southern Christian Leadership Council 

• Thurgood Marshall
• Homer Plessy
• John Lewis
• Martin Luther King, Jr.

What constitutional amendment abolished slavery in the U.S.? 

• 13th amendment
• 14th amendment
• 15th amendment
• 16th amendment

Who was responsible for sparking the Montgomery bus boycott?

• Lyndon B. Johnson
• Rosa Parks
• Martin Luther King
• Thurgood Marshall

What was the popular motto of the Civil Rights Movement used by activists in the 1950's and 1960's? 

• We Shall Overcome
• We are all Winners
• Survival of the Fittest
• We Shall Fight

What amendment states that citizens cannot be denied the right to vote because of race or color?

• 1st amendment
• 13th amendment
• 15th amendment
• 19th amendment

What argument(s) did Reverend Brown use to try to convince the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, to allow his daughter, Linda, to attend the all white school?

• The all white school was better than the all black school
• The all white school was closer to her house and a safer walk
• 14th Amendment to the US Constitution
• All choices are correct

Name the president who signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law. 

• Harry S Truman
• Lyndon B. Johnson
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• John F. Kennedy