Civil Rights 1940s and 1950s

Which of these events was not part of the early Civil Rights movement?

• Jackie Robinson becoming a Major League baseball player

• the end of school segregation

• The Rosenberg case

• Truman desegregating the U.S. military

What was the main goal of the Civil Rights movement?

• end the threat of communism

• End the idea of democracy

• end the Cold War

• end segregation

The 1896 court case that justified "separate, but equal" education was

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Mendez v. Westminster

• Delgado v. Bastrop

Which of the following cases did not involve desegregation of schools?

• Delgado v. Bastrop

• Sweatt v. Painter

• Mendez v. Westminster

• Scott v. Johnson

Whose refusal to give up a seat on a bus resulted in the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

• Ida B. Wells

• Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

• Thurgood Marshall

• Rosa Parks

Who promoted the idea of civil disobedience and became a national civil rights leader after the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

• Rosa Parks

• Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

• Thurgood Marshall

• Malcolm X

Army troops were sent to Little Rock, Arkansas to protect students in support of

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Mendez v. Westminster

• Sweatt v. Painter

President Truman made a major change to the U.S. military after WWII by

• Creating the Navy

• Ending segregation

• Ending desegregation

• Adding units divided by race

Which amendments specifically protected the rights of minorites?

• The Third, Fourth,and Fifth

• The Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth

• The Twentieth, Twenty-first and Twenty second

• The Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh