Civil Rights Movement

What ended segregration in public places and banned employment discrimination?

• a.  the Voting Rights Act of 1965
• b.  the Civil Rights Act of 1964
• c.  the Fair Housing Act of 1968
• d.  the Jim Crow laws

Which law helped women athletes obtain greater support in American high schools and universities?

• Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Title IX of the Educational Amendments Act
• 26th Amendment
• Voting Rights Act of 1964

What was significant about sending federal troops to protect African American students in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957?

• It led to federal takeover of many Southern public schools.
• It strengthened control of education by state governments.
• It was the 1st time martial law had been declared in the US.
• It showed that the government would enforce court decisions on integration.

Which Civil Rights leader also became the 1st African American to serve on the US Supreme Court?

• W.E.B. DuBois
• Martin Luther King Jr.
• Thurgood Marshall
• Rosa Parks

Brown v. Board of Education was famous because the court ruled that it is illegal

• allow children to work.
• to pay black people less than white people.
• to return a slave.
• to segregate schools.

After the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed, it was no longer legal to

• let African Americans ride the bus.
• deny someone of a job because of their race.
• fire someone for not doing their job.
• kick someone out of the military.

Which event is MLK, Jr. most known for?

• being President during the Civil Rights Movement.
• not giving up his seat to a white man.
• creating Jim Crow laws.
• March on Washington

MLK led a protest called the Montgomery Bus Boycott. They were protesting...

• blacks paid more to ride the bus than whites.
• blacks could not ride the bus.
• blacks had to sit separately from whites on the bus.
• blacks had to sit next to whites on the bus.

Which of the following actions would MLK Jr. support?

• segregation in the US military.
• African Americans carrying guns while protesting.
• the arrest of Rosa Parks.
• blacks sitting at an all white lunch counter waiting to be served.

What did the court case Brown vs Board of Ed establish?

• Public buses could not discriminate.
• Segregation is not legal in theaters and hotels.
• Public schools could not segregate.
• All-black schools must be equal to all-white schools.