Civil Rights

What laws discriminated against African Americans that kept them from using the same schools, parks, restrooms, and other public facilities as white people. They were considered 'separate but equal" at the time.

• a. Intergrated Laws

• b. Seperate But Equal Laws

• c. Jim Crow Laws

• d. Race Laws

2. Schools had been segregated because of race. What monumental court case was won before the US Supreme Court that made this illegal?

• a. Brown v Board of Education

• b. White v. Board of Education

• c. Jim Crow Laws

• d. Civil Rights Act

3. The US Supreme Court agreed with the Brown family, but many schools did not __, or combine black and white students.

• a. segregate

• b. integrate

• c. tolerate

• d. mix

4. The Little Rock Nine were...

• a. nine white students trying to go to an all black school

• b. nine black students trying to go to an all white school

5. What was Rosa Parks famous for in the Civil Rights movement?

• a. sitting with whites on a bus in Montgomery

• b. starting a fight over a seat on a bus

• c. refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus

• d. trying to enroll in an all white school

6. What ended the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

• a. everyone just gave up

• b. the buses ran out of gas

• c. the Supreme Court made segregation on buses illegal

• d. the buses ran out of money due to no one riding so they had to shut down

7. Who became the leader of the civil rights movement?

• a. Thurgood Marshall

• b. Martin Luther King, Jr.

• c. Rosa Parks

• d. John F. Kennedy

8. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed what significant law in 1964 that ended segregation?

• a. the civil Rights Movement

• b. The voting Rights Act

• c. The Desegregation Act

• d. the Civil Rights Act

9. Dr. MLK, Jr gave his most powerful speech at what event?

• a. the March on Washington

• b. the Montgomery Bus Boycott

• c. the Civil Rights March

• d. at the Brown v. Board of Education hearing

10. Thurgood Marshall was... (select all that apply)

• a. attorney for the Brown family

• head lawyer for the NAACP

• first black US Supreme Court judge