Civil Right

Which event did the most towards ending segregation?

• The Montgomery Bus Boycott
• MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech
• The Civil Rights Act of 1964
• The March on Washington

The U.S. government helped the Civil Rights movement by __________________.

•  government raising taxes 
• police arresting protesters
• Supreme  Court  desegregating schoools
• Senators organizing sit-ins & marches

__________________ led the equal rights movement for African Americans.

• James Booker
• Duke Ellington
• Thurgood Marshall
• Martin Luther King Jr. 

Which case did Thurgood Marshall challenge the "separate but equal" ruling?

• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Miranda v. Arizona
• Brown v. Board of Education
• New York Post v. United States

How did Dr. King (MLK) accomplish his civil rights goals?

• by becoming president
• by setting off bombs
• by creating an army
• by sit-ins, boycotts, and marches

How did Rosa parks spark the Civil Rights movement?

• by refusing to give up her seat on a bus
• by organizing a march to Washington
• by sending her daugther to an integrated school
• she gave many speeches

How did Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. help change laws to allow equal opportunities to African Americans?

• he refused to give up his seat on a bus
• he was the first African American to go to college
• he registered to vote
• he organized marches to protest against segregation

The U.S. Supreme Court change the educational system in 1954 by ruling that _________________________________.

• segregated schools were against the law.
• children had to go to school until they were 16. 
• schools could not be year round. 
• private and public schools had to provide education for free. 

What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 accomplish?

• gave women the right to vote
• banned racial segregation in public places
• ended the war on communism
• gave equal opportunities to disabled people

Who signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into action?

• Martin Luther King Jr. 
• Thurgood Marshall
• Lyndon B. Johnson
• John F. Kennedy