Civil Rights Quiz 1

What does segregation mean?

• To come together

• To put an end to

• To separate or keep apart

• To take to court

What court case in 1896 lead to the "separate but equal" laws; in which separate facilities were created for blacks and whites?

• Brown vs Education

• Roe vs Wade

• Supreme Court

• Plessy Vs Ferguson

An African American woman 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 court ruled that it is illegal to:

• Allow children to work long hours in factories
• Segregate schools based on people’s skin color
• Pay black people less than white people for similar work
• Return an escaped slave to his/her master  

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 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

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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

What are Civil Rights?

• Rights that only some citizens get
• Rights that all citizens get
•  Rights that are civil
• Rights that are controlled by the president

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 Martin Luther King Jr believed in

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

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 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

1. Which President integrated/desegregated the U.S. Military?

• John F Kennedy

• Lyndon B Johnon

• Harry S Truman

• Franklin Delano Roosevelt