Civil Rights Test Review 2023

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

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  

To whom is the Letter from the Birmingham Jail addressed?

• other ministers that King believed could assist in peaceful actions to gain civil rights

• Black Panthers because peaceful protests were not working in Birmingham

• SNCC since so many of the racial hatred was aimed at young adults

• marchers that went from Selma to Montgomery due to the police violence that was demonstrated

"In the field of public education, the doctrine of separate, but equal has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.”-Chief Justice Earl Warren 1954

The court case referenced above over turned which previous Supreme Court decision?

• Hernandez v. Texas

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Miranda v. Arizona

• Sweatt v. Painter

"In the field of public education, the doctrine of separate, but equal has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.”-Chief Justice Earl Warren 1954

Which action occurred as a result of the Supreme Court decision excerpted above?

• The desegregation of public schools

• The requirement of equal access to school facilities for disabled students

• The implementation of requirements for federal certification of private-school teachers

• The expansion of science in school curricula

Which court case established "Separate but Equal"?

• Plessy v Ferguson

• Texas v Johnson

• Marbury v Madison

• Miranda v. Arizona

Opening poling places to all people, banning literacy test and poll taxes, and creating federal voter registration oversight describes whish legislation?

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• Sweatt v. Painter

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was intended to ... Select all that apply.

• enforce Jim Crow laws

• increase voter turn out in the South

• prohibit discrimination in all public facilities

• enforce school integration and voter rights

Boycotts of products and labor strikes were effective methods for which group during the 1960's?

• Black Panthers

• United Farm Workers Union

• Freedom Riders

• Women's Suffrage

Civil rights group that started in Oakland, CA and fought police violence but later became a community assistance organization by providing free breakfast to students, free day care programs, free health csae including drug and alcohol rehab

• CORE

• Black Panthers

• SNCC

• SCLC