Civil Rights Movement

Which Supreme Court case ruled "separate but equal" was legal?

• Brown v. Board of Education
• Boynton v. Virginia
• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Miranda v. Arizona

What did Brown v. Board of Education rule?

• Outlawed literacy tests for voter registration
• Decided segregation is inherently unequal
• Boycotts are illegal
• Sit-ins are unconstitutional 

What civil rights action was the Little Rock Nine involved with?

• School integration
• Freedom Rides
• Freedom Summer
• Sit-Ins

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This tactic was used by black students in Greensboro, North Carolina in an attempt to integrate the lunch counter at Woolworth’s. 

• Sit-Ins
• Freedom Rides
• Marches
• Self-defense

This bill was the most important civil rights legislation since Reconstruction.  It included prohibiting discrimination in most public accommodations and prohibiting discrimination in employment

• Voting Rights Act of 1965
• Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Twenty-third Amendment to the Constitution
• Twenty-sixth Amendment to the Constitution

He was the hero of Brown v. Board and the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court.

• MLK, Jr.
  
• Medgar Evers
•  Stokely Carmichael
• Thurgood Marshall
  

What does SCLC stand for?

• South Colored Lending Committee
• Southern Competing Legacy Conference
• Southern Colored Loan Committee
  
• Southern Christian Leadership Conference
  

In 1957 Pres Eisenhower placed Arkansas National Guard under federal command b/c Gov. Orval Faubus...

• had left office to join the Freedom Riders
• requested military support from the President
• refused to integrate Little Rock High School
  
• blocked door of a university from African American students

What did Rosa Parks' incident with the law lead to?

• Brown vs. Board of Education
• Riots in the streets
  
• Hernandez vs. Texas
  
• Montgomery Bus Boycott
  
  

How were Malcolm X and the Black Panthers different from MLK and SNCC?

• They advocated for armed self-defense.
  
• They were not religious.
• Malcolm X was not assassinated.
• They were basically the same.