8th Grade Civil Rights

Who proposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964

• John F. Kennedy

• LBJ

• Martin Luther King

• James Meredith

What did the Equal Rights Amendment want to address?

• Employment Rights

• Property Rights

• Voting Rights

What sparked the Watts Riots

• A lack of federal funding for voting

• angered caused by accusations of police brutality

• a controversial LA major election

What did it finally take to integrate schools in Little Rock, Arkansas?

• A Supreme Court Decision

• A mob outside central High School

• the use of federal troops

Who signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

• JFK

• LBJ

• Martin Luther King

• James Meredith

The Voting Rights Act of 1965

• Gave African Americans the right to vote

• Allowed federal officials to register voters

• required bilingual elections

• established literacy tests for voting

Where did the first news-making sit-in occur?

• Nashville, TN

• Greensboro, NC

• Montgomery, AL

• Little Rock, AR

Martin Luther King Jr. was the founder of what organization?

• Nation of Islam

• SCLC

• SNCC

• Democratic Party

In the 1960s, bus boycotts, lunch counter sit-ins, and freedom riders were organized attempts to achieve

• intergration

• segregation

• black separatism

• cultural diffusion

What banned the use of literacy tests?

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Voting Rights Act

• 19th Amendment