Morgan's Quiz Civil Rights Movement

Who was arrested for refusing to give up their seat on a bus?

• Charlayne Hunter
• Harriet Tubman
• Rosa Parks
• Rebecca L. Felton

Father of the Civil Rights Movement, "I have a dream" speech at the March on Washington

• Lester Maddox
• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Andrew Young
• Benjamin Mays

ruled that segregation was illegal and overturned Plessy v Furgeson's "seperate but equal"

• SNCC
• White Primary
• Civil Rights Act
• Brown v Board of Education

Which statement BEST describes Martin Luther King, Jr.’s role in the civil rights movement?

• being involved with the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision

• creating the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

• advising the Sibley Commission on racial issues

• leader of the civil rights movement and advocator of nonviolent protests

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.

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CCSS.RI.5.7

CCSS.RI.6.7

CCSS.RL.4.7

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.7

Keeping things or people Separate

• prejudice

• union

• confederate

• segregation

What kind of marches did Martin Luther King Jr. lead?

• large
• mad
• peaceful

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CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.6.1

Martin Luther King, Jr.'s most famous speech is ______________. 

• I have a dream.....
• I have a problem...
• I have one wish...
• I have an argument...

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

__________ for all people is what Martin Luther King, Jr. was fighting for.

• Civil rights
• Revenge
• Hatred
• Discrimination

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CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

What was a "sit-in"?

• Students were not allowed to go to school
• Students peacefully sat in a segregated area in Woolworths
• African Americans not being able to vote
• College students boycotting the Olympics