The Civil Rights Movement Begins

What did Brown v. Board of Education rule?

• Outlawed literacy tests for voter registration

• Decided segregation unconstitutional in Education

• 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 sent troops to Little Rock 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 lead to?

• Brown vs. Board of Education

• Riots in the streets

• Hernandez vs. Texas

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

Lyndon Johnson was able to get Congress to pass the ________, which ended segregation.

• Civil Rights Act of 1964
  
• Fair Housing Act of 1968
• Voting Rights Act of 1965
• Social Security Act of 1965

The Voting Rights Act made _______ illegal.

• literacy tests
  
  

• an age limit
  
• poll taxes
  
• housing discrimination