Civil Rights and Contemporary

Who signed both the Civil Rights Act (1964) and Voting Rights Act (1965) into law?

• President Kennedy
• President Reagan
• President Johnson
• President Nixon

Who was the NAACP attorney on the Virginia case named in the Brown v. Board of Ed. case?

• Oliver Hill
• Thurgood Marshall
• Alger Hiss
• John Marshall

What Supreme Court decision had established the doctrine of "separate but equal?"

• Brown v. Board of Education
• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Dred Scott v. Sanford
• McCulloch v. Maryland

The Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that schools must desegregate within this time frame?

• within 5 years
• within 10 years
• after a generation 
• all deliberate speed/ immediately

Who was the lead NAACP attorney in the Brown v. Board of Education decision (1954?)

• W.E.B. DuBois
• Clarence Thomas
• Thurgood Marshall
• John Marshall

Virginia's "Massive Resistance" policy resulted in which of the following?

• Private Schools closing
• Public Schools closing
• White Flight to urban areas
• Escalation in nuclear arms race

Virginia's policy of "Massive Resistance" challenged which Constitutional principle?

• Separation of Powers
• Checks and Balances
• Bill of Rights
• Federalism

Who challenged America to live up to its founding creed "all men are created equal" in his I Have a Dream speech during the March on Washington (1963)?

• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Thurgood Marshall
• W.E.B. DuBois
• Frederick Douglass

MLK's I Have a Dream speech was delivered on the steps of this monument (referencing the rebirth of freedom/ end of slavery during the Civil War)?

• Sons of Confederate Veterans
• Lincoln Memorial
• Washington Memorial
• Vietnam Memorial/ "wall"

The March on Washington (1963) illustrated the power of peaceful protest and directly resulted in which of the following?

• passage of Civil Rights legislation
• a policy of "Massive Resistance"
• a policy of "Massive Retaliation"
• Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board