CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

New laws that required all public facilities to be integrated and prohibited discrimination in business and labor unions.

• Sibley Commission
• Albany Movement
• 1946 Governor's Race
• Civil Rights Act

ruled that segregation was illegal and overturned Plessy v Furgeson's "seperate but equal"

• SNCC
• White Primary
• Civil Rights Act
• Brown v Board of Education

True or False? The Montgomery Bus Boycott was effective because most people who rode the bus were black, and the bus company lost too much money once people boycotted.

• True

• False

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

What commitment is MLK revealing in this speech?

• End of totalitarian regimes

• end of incarceration in communistic nations

• the right to protest granted by American democracy

• protesting communistic laws

The 24th Amendment...

• gave women the right to vote.

• eliminated the use of literacy tests.

• outlawed poll taxes.

• allowed for the popular election of US Senators.

What kind of marches did Martin Luther King Jr. lead?

• large

• mad

• nonviolent

• violent

This act was passed to protect voting rights of African Americans; intended to prevent obstructions to voting for African American voters, such as paying a poll tax or taking a literacy test in order to be eligible to vote; ensured rights granted in the Fifteenth Amendment (USH. 9F)

• Civil Rights Act 1957
• Civil Rights Act 1964
• Executive Order 1948
• Voting Rights Act 1965

 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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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

which supreme court case ruled that separation is okay so long as it is equal? 

• Plessy V. Ferguson
• Dred Scott v. Sanford
• Marbury v. Madison
• Miranda v. Arizona

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

What is it called when African Americans would sit at "whites-only" lunch counter to protest segregation?

• Boycott

• School

• Bus

• Sit-in