Civil Rights Movement

The Plessy v. Ferguson ruling of 1896 established that laws segregating African Americans were permitted in the so-called...

• "de facto segregation" doctrine.
• "Southern segregation" doctrine.
• "separate but equal" doctrine.
• "constitutional segregation" doctrine.

Which event led to the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama?

• a riot in Montgomery
• the CORE sit-in
• the arrest of Rosa Parks
• a church bombing

Brown v. Education was a significant case because...

• it declared it illegal to prevent African Americans from voting.
• it declared it illegal to segregate to segregate restaurants.
• it declared it illegal to segregate public schools.
• it declared it illegal to discriminate in the selling of a house.

"Bloody Sunday" occurred in reaction to which event?

• the Selma march
• the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
• the March on Washington
• the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

How did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 help African Americans?

• The act authorized the U.S. attorney general to send federal employees to register voters.
• The act suspended literacy tests in counties where less than half of all adults were registered to vote.
• The act outlawed discrimination in housing sales and rentals.
• The act gave the federal government more power to force school desegregation.

Which group worked to fight segregation and other inequalities primarily through the courts?

• NAACP
• SNCC
• SCLC
• AIM

The route of the Freedom Riders went through...

• the Midwest.
• the South.
• New England.
• the West.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. believed that the only moral way to end segregation and racism was through...

• violence and riots.
• the political system.
• education.
• nonviolent passive resistance.

CORE successfully integrated many restaurants by using...

• protest marches.
• boycotts.
• sit-ins.
• threats.

The Southern Manifesto encouraged white Southerners to...

• defy the Supreme Court.
• embrace desegregation.
• march against civil rights.
• obey local law enforcement.