Civil Rights Movement

 An African American women who was asked to give up her seat on the bus to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama was

• Harriet B. Stowe
• Rosa Parks
• Michelle Obama
• Coretta King

Brown vs. Board of Education was a famous case heard by the United States Supreme Court in 1954. The ruling overturned what Supreme Court decision?

• The Civil Rights Act

• Plessy vs. Ferguson

• Brown vs. White

• King vs. Malcolm

Thurgood Marshall was an important part of the Civil Rights Movement because: 

• b. He was the first African American to be appointed Supreme Court Justice
• a.  He was the lawyer of Linda Brown during Brown vs. Board of Education case
• He spoke during the march on Washington
• a.  Both A and B

 Martin Luther King Jr gave the famous “I Have A Dream” speech at what event?

• Freedom Rides
• Montgomery Bus Boycott
• March on Washington
• March from  Selma to Montgomery

How was the Montgomery Bus Boycott effective?

• It gave free transportation to African Americans
• It segregated buses in America
•  It made Rosa Parks lots of money
• It helped de-segregate buses in America

 Martin Luther King Jr believed in

• Violent protests
• Really loud protests
• Non-violent protests
• Violence  when needed protests

 Rosa Parks was arrested here when she refused to give up her seat on the bus. Also the site of a major bus boycott.

•  Atlanta, GA
• Montgomery, AL
• Washington, D.C. 
• Savannah, GA

This law banned all literacy tests that kept many African Americans from voting. 

• Civil Rights Act
• Voting Rights Act
• Civil Rights Movement
• 24th Amendment

This law banned discrimination of any American because of race, gender,  or religion. 

• Voting Rights Act
• Civil Rights Act
• 15th  Amendment
• Civil Rights Movement

After the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed, it was no longer legal to

• let African Americans ride the bus.

• deny someone of a job because of their race.

• kick someone out of the military.